Softcover

ISBN 10: 3642218458 ISBN 13: 9783642218453

Publisher: Springer, 2011

Within the context of globalization, cultural transformations are increasingly analyzed as hybridization processes. The aim of this book is to generate a transdisciplinary perception of hybridity to pave the way for a wider application of this crucial concept.

From the Back Cover:

Within the context of globalization, cultural transformations are increasingly analyzed as hybridization processes. Hybridity itself, however, is often treated as a specifically post-colonial phenomenon. The contributors in this volume assume the historicity of transcultural flows and entanglements; they consider the resulting transformative powers to be a basic feature of cultural change. By juxtaposing different notions of hybridization and specific methodologies, as they appear in the various disciplines, this volume’s design is transdisciplinary. Each author presents a disciplinary concept of hybridization and shows how it operates in specific case studies. The aim is to generate a transdisciplinary perception of hybridity that paves the way for a wider application of this crucial concept