Hybridity, Or The Cultural Logic Of Globalization

by Kraidy, Marwan M.

• ISBN13: 9781592131440
• ISBN10: 1592131441
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-06-30
• Publisher: Temple Univ Pr

Summary

Hybridity, the interaction of people and media from different cultures, is a communication-based phenomenon. Drawing on original research from Lebanon to Mexico and analyzing the use of the term in cultural and postcolonial studies (as well as the popular and business media), Marwan Kraidy offers readers a history of the idea and a set of prescriptions for its future use.Kraidy analyzes the use of the concept of cultural mixture from the first century AD to its present application in the academy and the commercial press. The case studies build an argument for understanding the importance of the dynamics of communication, power, and political-economy as well as culture, in situations of hybridity. Suggesting that such an approach will serve as a useful way to examine how media work in international context, he concludes the book by proposing a new method for studying cultural mixture: critical transculturalism.

Author Biography

Marwan M. Kraidy is Assistant Professor of International Communication at the School of International Service, American University.

Table of Contents

Preface	vi
Acknowledgments	xiii
1 Cultural Hybridity and International Communication	1	(14)
2 Scenarios of Global Culture	15	(30)
3 The Trails and Tales of Hybridity	45	(27)
4 Corporate Transculturalism	72	(25)
5 The Cultural and Political Economies of Hybrid Media Texts	97	(19)
6 Structure, Reception, and Identity: On Arab-Western Dialogism	116	(32)
7 Hybridity without Guarantees: Toward Critical Transculturalism	148	(15)
Notes	163	(14)
Bibliography	177	(34)
Index	211