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Against Hybridity: Social Impasses in a Globalizing World
Haim Hazan
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Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: JFFS; JHBK; JM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 140 x 231 x 18. Weight in Grams: 252.
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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...
Product Details
Publisher
Polity
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
252g
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745690704
SKU
V9780745690704
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99-15
About Haim Hazan
Haim Hazan is professor sociology and social anthropology at Tel-Aviv University, and Co-Director of the Minerva Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies of the End of Life.
Reviews for Against Hybridity: Social Impasses in a Globalizing World
Opening new vistas, blazing new trails, drawing out from invisibility the forcibly fixed - that other, murky side of the glittering world of self-defining and self-asserting, as well as self-congratulating, hybrids: the collateral victims of the universal duty of market-inspired, market-promoted and market-mediated self-creation. Zygmunt Bauman, Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Leeds An intellectual tour de force....
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