Debating Cultural Hybridity: Multi-Cultural Identities and the Politics of Anti-Racism

Abstract

* Preface * Introduction: The Dialectics Of Cultural Hybridity * Pnina Werbner * Part One: Hybridity, Globalisation and the Practice of Cultural Complexity * 1. From Complex Culture To Cultural Complexity * Hans-Rudolf Wicker * 2. The Making And Unmaking Of Strangers * Zygmunt Bauman * 3. Identity And Difference In A Globalized World * Alberto Melucci * 4. Global Crises, The Struggle For Cultural Identity And Intellectual Porkbarrelling * Jonathan Friedman * 5. 'The Enigma Of Arrival': Hybridity And Authenticity In The Global Space * Peter Van Der Veer * 6. Adorno At Womad: South Asian Crossovers And The Limits Of Hybridity-Talk * John Hutnyk * Part Two : Essentialism versus Hybridity: Negotiating Difference * 7. Is It So Diffcult To Be An Anti-Racist? * Michel Wieviorka * 8. 'Difference', Cultural Racism And Anti-Racism * Tariq Modood * 9. Constructions Of Whiteness In European And American Anti?Racism * Alastair Bonnett * 10. Ethnicity, Gender Relations And Multiculturalism * Nira Yuval-Davis * 13. Dominant And Demotic Discourses Of Culture: * Their Relevance To Multi-Ethnic Alliances * Gerd Baumann * 14. Essentialising Essentialism, Essentialising Silence: Ambivalence And Multiplicity In The Constructions Of Racism And Ethnicity * Pnina Werbner * Part Three: Mapping Hybridity * 15. Tracing Hybridity In Theory * Nikos Papastergiadis * Notes On The Contributors