East-West Identities: Globalization, Localization, and Hybridization

by David Hayward and Chan Kwok-Bun

Under the simultaneous influences of globalization and localization, there has emerged a prevalent social formation based on a hybridized culture in which the cultural norms are many and various: boundary transcendence, alternative cultures, cultural hybridity, cultural creativity, connectivity, tolerance, multiculturalism, cosmopolitanism. While the economic forces shaping globalization are powerful and seemingly getting stronger, they are not immutable,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004151699
• ISBN13: 9789004151697
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.6" x 9.6"