Debating Cultural Hybridity

Pnina Werbner is professor emerita in social anthropology at Keele University. She is an urban anthropologist who has studied Muslim South Asians in Britain and Pakistan and, more recently, the women’s movement and the Manual Workers Union in Botswana.Tariq Modood is professor of sociology, politics and public policy at the University of Bristol and the founding director of the Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship. His website is www.tariqmodood.com.

This new edition of Werbner and Modood's Debating Cultural Hybridity is at once timely and insightful. For it arrives at a time when the debate on multiculturalism and racism has become more urgent not just in Europe and in North America, but also in the various parts of the global South that have been the sources for the urgent interrogations of the project of social modernity. It is a must for all people concerned with the burning questions of our current time.

• Foreword - Homi K. BhabhaPreface to the Critique Influence Change EditionPreface to the First Edition1. Introduction: The Dialectics of Cultural Hybridity - Pnina WerbnerPart I: Hybridity, Globalisation and the Practice of Cultural Complexity2. From Complex Culture to Cultural Complexity - Hans-Rudolf Wicker3. The Making and Unmaking of Strangers - Zygmunt Bauman4. Identity and Difference in a Globalised World - Alberto Melucci5. Global Crises, the Struggle for Cultural Identity and Intellectual Porkbarrelling: Cosmopolitans versus Locals, Ethnics and Nationals in an Era of De-hegemonisation - Jonathan Friedman6. 'The Enigma of Arrival': Hybridity and Authenticity in the Global Space - Peter Van Der Veer7. Adorno at Womad: South Asian Crossovers and the Limits of Hybridity-Talk - John HutnykPart II: Essentialism versus Hybridity: Negotiating Difference8. Is It So Diffcult to be an Anti-Racist? - Michel Wieviorka9. 'Difference', Cultural Racism and Anti-Racism - Tariq Modood10. Constructions of Whiteness in European and American Anti-Racism - Alastair Bonnett11. Ethnicity, Gender Relations and Multiculturalism - Nira Yuval-Davis12. Dominant and Demotic Discourses of Culture: Their Relevance to Multi-Ethnic Alliances - Gerd Baumann13. Essentialising Essentialism, Essentialising Silence: Ambivalence and Multiplicity in the Constructions of Racism and Ethnicity - Pnina WerbnerPart III: Mapping Hybridity14. Tracing Hybridity in Theory - Nikos PapastergiadisNotes on ContributorsIndex