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This seminal text disputes the view that we are experiencing a “clash of civilizations” as well as the idea that globalization leads to cultural homogenization. Instead, Jan Nederveen Pieterse argues that we are witnessing the formation of a global mélange culture through processes of cultural mixing or hybridization. From this perspective on globalization, conflict may be mitigated and identity preserved, albeit transformed. Through numerous updates in the Fifth edition, the author focuses on the key issue of agency and power in hybridization. Throughout, the book offers a comprehensive treatment of hybridization arguments, and in discussing globalization and culture, problematizes the meaning of culture. This historically deep and geographically wide approach to globalization is essential reading as we face the increasing spread of conflicts bred by cultural misunderstanding.
Table of Contents
1 What Is Culture?
Nation and Culture
Culture Sprawl
Disentangling Threads of Culture
2 Globalization: Consensus and Controversies
Consensus
Controversies
Twenty-First-Century Globalization
3 Globalization and Human Integration: We Are All Migrants
Globalization as a Deep Historical Process
Utopian Visions: Human Unity as a Theme
Uneven Globalization
We Are All Migrants: Migration and Human Integration
4 Globalization and Culture: Three Paradigms
Clash of Civilizations
McDonaldization
Hybridization: Rhizomes of Culture
Futures
5 Globalization as Hybridization
Globalization and Modernity
Structural Hybridization
Global Mélange
Politics of Hybridity
Post-hybridity?
Forward Moves
6 Hybridity, So What? The Anti-hybridity Backlash
Varieties of Hybridity
The Anti-hybridity Backlash
Hybridity and the longue durée
Different Cultural Takes on Hybridity
Patterns of Hybridity
So What?
7 Globalization Is Braided: East-West Osmosis
East-West
Islam-West
Easternization, Westernization, and Back Again
8 Hybrid China
Silk Roads
New Silk Roads
Hybridity with Chinese Characteristics
Globalized, Globalizing
9 Populism, Globalization, and Culture
Meridians of Populism
Populism and Globalization
Populism and Culture
10 Global Mélange
Product details
| Published | 15 Mar 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 5th |
| Extent | 300 |
| ISBN | 9798765154557 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 1 BW Illus |
| Series | Globalization |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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