Índice

The aim of this volume is to shed some light on the essentially hybrid nature, the complexity and the flexibility of "culture" and identity, their potential openness as well as their closures. Starting from the reality that postmodern personal identities are multicultural identities, it tries to define the limits of cultural hybridity. Why is it so difficult to negotiate differences across cultures? In what ways does racism strike at the foundations of multiculturalism? The contributors, UK and European social scientists and anthropologists, deconstruct established approaches and disclose why anti-racism and multiculturalism are hard roads to travel.

Índice: The dialetic of cultural hybridity, Pnina Werbner. Part 1 Hybridity, globalization and the practice of cultural complexity: from complex culture to cultural complexity, Hans-Rudolph Wicker; the making and unmaking of strangers, Zygmunt Bauman; identity and difference in a global world, Alberto Melucci; global crises, the struggle for cultural identity and intellectual porkbarreling - cosmopolitans versus locals, ethnics and nationals in an era of de-hegemonization, Jonathan Friedman; "the enigma of arrival" - hybridity and authenticity in cultural studies discourse, Peter van der Veer; Adorno at WOMAD - So... Etc.