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Download or read book Against Hybridity written by Haim Hazan and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-04-14 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the major characteristics of our contemporary culture isa positive, almost banal, view of the transgression and disruptionof cultural boundaries. Strangers, migrants and nomads arecelebrated in our postmodern world of hybrids and cyborgs. But wepay a price for this celebration of hybridity: the non-hybridfigures in our societies are ignored, rejected, silenced orexterminated. This book tells the story of these non-hybrid figuresÐ the anti-heroes of our pop culture. The main example of non-hybrids in an otherwise hybridized worldis that of deep old age. Hazan shows how we fervently distanceourselves from old age by grading and sequencing it into stagessuch as ‘the third age’, ‘the fourth age’and so on. Aging bodies are manipulated through anti-agingtechniques until it is no longer possible to do it anymore, atwhich point they become un-transformable and non-marketable objectsand hence commercially and socially invisible or masked. Otherexamples are used to elucidate the same cultural logic of thenon-hybrid: pain, the Holocaust, autism, fundamentalism andcorporeal death. On the face of it, these examples may seem to havenothing in common, but they all exemplify the same cultural logicof the non-hybrid and provoke similar reactions of criticism,terror, abhorrence and moral indignation. This highly original and iconoclastic book offers a freshcritique of contemporary Western culture by focusing on that whichis perceived as its other Ð the non-hybrid in our midst, oftenrejected, ignored or silenced and deemed to be in need of globallymanageable correction.
Book Synopsis Hybridity on the Ground in Peacebuilding and Development by : Joanne Wallis
Download or read book Hybridity on the Ground in Peacebuilding and Development written by Joanne Wallis and published by ANU Press. This book was released on 2018-03-01 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hybridity on the Ground in Peacebuilding and Development engages with the possibilities and pitfalls of the increasingly popular notion of hybridity. The hybridity concept has been embraced by scholars and practitioners in response to the social and institutional complexities of peacebuilding and development practice. In particular, the concept appears well-suited to making sense of the mutually constitutive outcomes of processes of interaction between diverse norms, institutions, actors and discourses in the context of contemporary peacebuilding and development engagements. At the same time, it has been criticised from a variety of perspectives for overlooking critical questions of history, power and scale. The authors in this interdisciplinary collection draw on their in‑depth knowledge of peacebuilding and development contexts in different parts of Asia, the Pacific and Africa to examine the messy and dynamic realities of hybridity ‘on the ground’. By critically exploring the power dynamics, and the diverse actors, ideas, practices and sites that shape hybrid peacebuilding and development across time and space, this book offers fresh insights to hybridity debates that will be of interest to both scholars and practitioners. ‘Hybridity has become an influential idea in peacebuilding and this volume will undoubtedly become the most influential collection on the idea. Nuance and sophistication characterises this engagement with hybridity.’ — Professor John Braithwaite
Book Synopsis Additional Observations on Hybridity in Animals, and on Some Collateral Subjects by : Samuel George Morton
Download or read book Additional Observations on Hybridity in Animals, and on Some Collateral Subjects written by Samuel George Morton and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Additional Observations on Hybridity in Animals and on Some Collateral Subject a Reply to the Objections of John Bachman, D.D. by : Samuel George Morton
Download or read book Additional Observations on Hybridity in Animals and on Some Collateral Subject a Reply to the Objections of John Bachman, D.D. written by Samuel George Morton and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Against Hybridity written by Haim Hazan and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-04-14 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the major characteristics of our contemporary culture is a positive, almost banal, view of the transgression and disruption of cultural boundaries. Strangers, migrants and nomads are celebrated in our postmodern world of hybrids and cyborgs. But we pay a price for this celebration of hybridity: the non-hybrid figures in our societies are ignored, rejected, silenced or exterminated. This book tells the story of these non-hybrid figures Ð the anti-heroes of our pop culture. The main example of non-hybrids in an otherwise hybridized world is that of deep old age. Hazan shows how we fervently distance ourselves from old age by grading and sequencing it into stages such as ‘the third age’, ‘the fourth age’ and so on. Aging bodies are manipulated through anti-aging techniques until it is no longer possible to do it anymore, at which point they become un-transformable and non-marketable objects and hence commercially and socially invisible or masked. Other examples are used to elucidate the same cultural logic of the non-hybrid: pain, the Holocaust, autism, fundamentalism and corporeal death. On the face of it, these examples may seem to have nothing in common, but they all exemplify the same cultural logic of the non-hybrid and provoke similar reactions of criticism, terror, abhorrence and moral indignation. This highly original and iconoclastic book offers a fresh critique of contemporary Western culture by focusing on that which is perceived as its other Ð the non-hybrid in our midst, often rejected, ignored or silenced and deemed to be in need of globally manageable correction.
Book Synopsis Performing Hybridity by : May Joseph
Download or read book Performing Hybridity written by May Joseph and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amid the modern-day complexities of migration and exile, immigration and repatriation, notions of stable national identity give way to ideas about cultural "hybridity". The authors represented in this volume use different forms of performative writing to question this process, to ask how the production of new political identities destabilizes ideas about gender, sexuality, and the nation in the public sphere. Contributors use forms such as the essay, poem, photography, and case study to examine historically specific cases in which the notion of hybridity recasts our ideas of identity and performance: the struggle for Aboriginal land rights in Australia; Bahian carnival; the creolization and pidginization of language in the Caribbean world; queer videos; and others.
Book Synopsis Hybridity: Law, Culture and Development by : Nicolas Lemay-Hébert
Download or read book Hybridity: Law, Culture and Development written by Nicolas Lemay-Hébert and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-02-17 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores recent developments in the concept of hybridity through a multi-disciplinary perspective, bringing ideas about legal plurality together with the fields of peace, development and cultural studies. Analysing the concepts of hybridity and hybridization, their history, their application in law and legal studies, and their implications for thinking and rethinking legal plurality, the book shows how the concept of hybridity can contribute to an understanding of the processes that occur when different normative or legal orders or frameworks confront each other.
Book Synopsis Reconstructing Hybridity by : Joel Kuortti
Download or read book Reconstructing Hybridity written by Joel Kuortti and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2007 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interdisciplinary collection of critical articles seeks to reassess the concept of hybridity and its relevance to post-colonial theory and literature. The challenging articles written by internationally acclaimed scholars discuss the usefulness of the term in relation to such questions as citizenship, whiteness studies and transnational identity politics. In addition to developing theories of hybridity, the articles in this volume deal with the role of hybridity in a variety of literary and cultural phenomena in geographical settings ranging from the Pacific to native North America. The collection pays particular attention to questions of hybridity, migrancy and diaspora.
Book Synopsis The Global-Local Interface and Hybridity by : Rani Rubdy
Download or read book The Global-Local Interface and Hybridity written by Rani Rubdy and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2013-11-29 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The chapters in this volume seek to bring hybrid language practices to the center of discussions about English as a global language. They demonstrate how local linguistic resources and practices are involved in the refashioning of identities in a variety of cross-cultural and geographical contexts, and illustrate hybridity as an enactment of resistance and creativity. Drawing on a variety of disciplines and ideological perspectives, the authors use contexts as diverse as social media, Bollywood films, workplaces and kindergartens to explore the ways in which English has become a part of localities and social relations in ways that are of significant sociolinguistic interest in understanding the dynamics of mobile cultures and transcultural flows.
Book Synopsis Engagements with Hybridity in Literature by : Joel Kuortti
Download or read book Engagements with Hybridity in Literature written by Joel Kuortti and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-10-12 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engagements with Hybridity in Literature: An Introduction is a textbook especially for undergraduate and graduate students of literature. It discusses the different dimensions of the notion of hybridity in theory and practice, introducing the use and relevance of the concept in literary studies. As a structured and up-to-date source for both instructors and learners, it provides a fascinating selection of materials and approaches. The book examines the concept of hybridity, offers a historical overview of the term and its critique, and draws upon the key ideas, trends, and voices in the field. It critically engages with the theoretical, intellectual, and literary discussions of the concept from the time of colonialism to the postmodern era and beyond. The book enables students to develop critical thinking through engaging them in case studies addressing a diverse selection of literary texts from various genres and cultures that open up new perspectives and opportunities for analysis. Each chapter offers a specific theoretical background and close readings of hybridity in literary texts. To improve the students’ analytical skills and knowledge of hybridity, each chapter includes relevant tasks, questions, and additional reference materials.
Book Synopsis Migration Literature and Hybridity by : S. Moslund
Download or read book Migration Literature and Hybridity written by S. Moslund and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-07-07 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using three literary analyses to show what happens once we leave behind the theoretical poverty of celebratory readings of contemporary migration and hybridity literature, this book offers a way out of the theoretical deadlock of putting hybridity against purity or flux against fixity.
Book Synopsis Recognition and Difference by : Scott Lash
Download or read book Recognition and Difference written by Scott Lash and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2002-07-26 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are there any cultural universals left? Does multiculturalism inevitably involve a slide into moral relativism? This timely and insightful book examines questions of politics and identity in the age of multicultures. It draws together the contribution of outstanding contributors such as Fraser, Honneth, O′Neill, Bauman, Lister, Gilroy and De Swann to explore how difference and multiculturalism take on the arguments of universalist humanism. The approach taken derives from the traditions of cultural sociology and cultural studies rather than political science and philosophy. The book takes seriously the argument that the social bond and recognition are in danger through globalization and deterritorialization. It is a major contribution to the emerging debate on the form of post-national forms of civil society.
Book Synopsis Hybridity, OR the Cultural Logic of Globalization by : Kraidy
Download or read book Hybridity, OR the Cultural Logic of Globalization written by Kraidy and published by Pearson Education India. This book was released on 2007-09 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Diaspora and Hybridity by : Virinder Kalra
Download or read book Diaspora and Hybridity written by Virinder Kalra and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2005-10-10 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diaspora & Hybridity deals with those theoretical issues which concern social theory and social change in the new millennium. The volume provides a refreshing, critical and illuminating analysis of concepts of diaspora and hybridity and their impact on multi-ethnic and multi-cultural societies’ - Dr Rohit Barot, Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Bristol What do we mean by 'diaspora' and 'hybridity'? Why are they pivotal concepts in contemporary debates on race, culture and society? This book is an exhaustive, politically inflected, assessment of the key debates on diaspora and hybridity. It relates the topics to contemporary social struggles and cultural contexts, providing the reader with a framework to evaluate and displace the key ideological arguments, theories and narratives deployed in culturalist academic circles today. The authors demonstrate how diaspora and hybridity serve as problematic tools, cutting across traditional boundaries of nations and groups, where trans-national spaces for a range of contested cultural, political and economic outcomes might arise. Wide ranging, richly illustrated and challenging, it will be of interest to students of cultural studies, sociology, ethnicity and nationalism.
Book Synopsis Hybridity in the Literature of Medieval England by : Rosanne P. Gasse
Download or read book Hybridity in the Literature of Medieval England written by Rosanne P. Gasse and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-07-04 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hybridity in the Literature of Medieval England offers a wide-ranging exploration of hybridity in medieval English literature. Anxiety about hybridity surfaces in characters of mixed ethnic identity in the romances. But anxiety is found also in the intersection of the natural and the supernatural and its site can be located inside the human body’s unstable physical frame, living and dead, as much as in the cultural and social forces at work upon the human body politic at large. Hybridity is unlike other constructs of difference in that, while it is grounded in difference, hybridity points toward sameness. The four types of hybridity studied in medieval English literature show that hybridity can resolve the problems caused by difference. Understanding medieval hybridity can help us to deal with our own contemporary struggles with the mixtures of our own lives and societies.
Book Synopsis Debating Cultural Hybridity by : Pnina Werbner
Download or read book Debating Cultural Hybridity written by Pnina Werbner and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-01-08 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why is it still so difficult to negotiate differences across cultures? In what ways does racism continue to strike at the foundations of multiculturalism? Bringing together some of the world's most influential postcolonial theorists, this classic collection examines the place and meaning of cultural hybridity in the context of growing global crisis, xenophobia and racism. Starting from the reality that personal identities are multicultural identities, Debating Cultural Hybridity illuminates the complexity and the flexibility of culture and identity, defining their potential openness as well as their closures, to show why anti-racism and multiculturalism are today still such hard roads to travel.
Book Synopsis Religious Language and Asian American Hybridity by : Julius-Kei Kato
Download or read book Religious Language and Asian American Hybridity written by Julius-Kei Kato and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-08-10 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Julius-Kei Kato lets the theories and experiences of Asian American hybridity converse with and bear upon some aspects of Christian biblical and theological language. Hybridity has become a key feature of today’s globalized world and is, of course, a key concept in postcolonial thought. However, despite its crucial importance, hybridity is rarely used as a paradigm through which to analyze and evaluate the influential concepts and teachings that make up religious language. This book fills a lacuna by discussing what the concept of hybridity challenges and resists, what over-simplifications it has the power to complicate, and what forgotten or overlooked strands in religious tradition it endeavors to recover and reemphasize. Shifting seamlessly between biblical, theological, and modern, real-world case studies, Kato shows how hybridity permeates and can illuminate religious phenomena as lived and believed. The ultimate goal of the move toward an embrace of hybridity is a further dissolution of the thick wall separating ideas of "us" and "them." In this book, Kato suggests the possibility of a world in which what one typically considers the "other" is increasingly recognized within oneself.
