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critique confronts the world. Without dogma, without new principles, it refuses to conform and instead demands insurrection of thought. It must be ruthless, unafraid of both its results and the powers it may come into conflict with. Critique takes the world, our world, as its object, so that we may develop new ways of making it. influence is a step from critique towards the future, when effects begin to be felt, when the ground becomes unstable, when a movement ignites. These critiques of the state of our world have influenced a generation. They are crucial guides to change. change is when the structures shift. The books in this series take critique as their starting point and as such have influenced both their respective disciplines and thought the world over. This series is born out of our conviction that change lies not in the novelty of the future but in the realization of the thoughts of the past. These texts are not mere interpretations or reflections, but scientific, critical and impassioned analyses of our world. After all, the point is to change it. TiTles in The criTique influence change series Reclaiming Development The Lords of Human Kind An Alternative Policy Manual European Attitudes to Other Cultures by Ha-Joon Chang and Ilene Grabel in the Imperial Age by Victor Kiernan Realizing Hope Life Beyond Capitalism Male Daughters, Female Husbands by Michael Albert Gender and Sex in an African Society by Ifi Amadiume Global Governance and the New Wars The Merging of Development and Marxism and the Muslim World Security by Maxime Rodinson by Mark Duffield Planet Dialectics Capitalism in the Age of Globalization Explorations in Environment and The Management of Contemporary Development Society by Wolfgang Sachs by Samir Amin Another World is Possible Ecofeminism Popular Alternatives to Globalization by Maria Mies and Vandana Shiva at the World Social Forum edited by William Fisher and Patriarchy and Accumulation on a Thomas Ponniah World Scale Women in the International Division of Labour by Maria Mies Grassroots Post-modernism Remaking the Soil of Cultures by Gustavo Esteva and Madhu Suri Prakash Debating Cultural Hybridity Multicultural Identities and the Politics of Anti-Racism edited by Pnina Werbner and Tariq Modood A Fundamental Fear Eurocentrism and the Emergence of Islamism by S. Sayyid More criTical Praise for Debating Cultural HybriDity ‘This work, written by some of the most eminent current social theorists, is even more necessary today than when it was first published.’ Ricard Zapata-Barrero, Pompeu Fabra University ‘The reissue of these seminal essays reminds us that the turn to hybridity was never an invitation to celebration, but rather a challenge to think about the necessary conditions for an emancipatory politics.’ Gavan Titley, Maynooth University ‘With its prescient, rigorous examination of cultural hybridity and emancipatory politics, this landmark volume still has much to teach us nearly twenty years on. Indeed, reading it again in light of subsequent political developments makes its contribution all the more striking and compelling.’ Stephen May, University of Auckland ‘This volume continues to be the indispensable guide to hybridity. Many of the contributions to the volume have become classics but their genuine value is that they still allow us to discover elements of a politics of difference that responds to our current conjecture.’ Jan Dobbernack, University of Lincoln abouT The ediTors 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. debaTing culTural hybridiTy MulTiculTural idenTiTies and The PoliTics of anTi-racisM ediTed by Pnina Werbner and Tariq Modood WiTh a foreWord by hoMi K. bhabha Zed Books London In memory of Stuart Hall, 1932–2014 Debating Cultural Hybridity: Multicultural Identities and the Politics of Anti-racism was first published in 1997 by Zed Books Ltd, 7 Cynthia Street, London N1 9JF, UK This edition was published in 2015 www.zedbooks.co.uk Editorial copyright © Pnina Werbner and Tariq Modood, 1997, 2015 Copyright © individual contributors, 1997 Foreword © Homi K. Bhabha, 2015 The rights of Pnina Werbner and Tariq Modood to be identified as the editors of this work have been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988 Typeset in Monotype Bembo by illuminati, Grosmont Cover designed by www.alice-marwick.co.uk All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying or otherwise, without the prior permission of Zed Books Ltd. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 978–1–78360–161–5 pb ISBN 978–1–78360–188–2 pdf ISBN 978–1–78360–189–9 epub ISBN 978–1–78360–190–5 mobi Contents Foreword Homi K. BHaBHa ix Preface to the critique influence change edition Pnina WerBner and Tariq modood xiv Preface to the first edition xix Introduction: The Dialectics of Cultural Hybridity Pnina WerBner part one Hybridity, Globalisation and tHe Practice of cultural comPlexity From Complex Culture to Cultural Complexity Hans-rudolf WicKer The Making and Unmaking of Strangers ZygmunT Bauman Identity and Difference in a Globalised World alBerTo melucci Global Crises, the Struggle for Cultural Identity and Intellectual Porkbarrelling: Cosmopolitans versus Locals, Ethnics and Nationals in an Era of De-hegemonisation JonaTHan friedman ‘The Enigma of Arrival’: Hybridity and Authenticity in the Global Space PeTer van der veer Adorno at Womad: South Asian Crossovers and the Limits of Hybridity-Talk JoHn HuTnyK part two essentialism versus Hybridity: neGotiatinG difference Is It So Difficult to be an Anti-Racist? micHel WieviorKa ‘Difference’, Cultural Racism and Anti-Racism Tariq modood Constructions of Whiteness in European and American Anti-Racism alasTair BonneTT Ethnicity, Gender Relations and Multiculturalism nira yuval-davis Dominant and Demotic Discourses of Culture: Their Relevance to Multi-ethnic Alliances gerd Baumann Essentialising Essentialism, Essentialising Silence: Ambivalence and Multiplicity in the Constructions of Racism and Ethnicity Pnina WerBner part three maPPinG Hybridity Tracing Hybridity in Theory niKos PaPasTergiadis Notes on the Contributors Index foreword ix Foreword HomI K. BHaBHa I write this foreword to the critique influence change edition of Debating Cultural Hybridity in a spirit of collegial and convivial solidarity. We have come together to celebrate a concept – the hybrid – that has established its salience in a wide range of discourses relevant to the aesthetics of cultural difference and the politics of minorities. The dedication of this edition to the memory of Stuart Hall charges its pages with the exuberant and experimental temperament Stuart brought to the project of thinking and acting. He let no issue rest; he left no problem unprobed; and there was no occasion on which he renounced the opportunity to think again or the chance to begin afresh. For Stuart, the toil of historical understanding and the task of cultural justice were always urgent – and inevitably unfinished. We cannot let his spirit rest, for such stasis would be deeply at odds with the living legacy of his work. Hybridity is a form of incipient critique; it does not come as a force from ‘outside’ to impose an alternative a priori ground-plan on the pattern of the present. Hybridity works with, and within, the cultural design of the present to reshape our understanding of the interstices – social and psychic – that link signs of cultural similitude with emergent signifiers of alterity. The ‘dif- ference’ that constitutes the subject of hybridity can be temporal, political, racial, sexual, social or economic. These forms of ‘difference’, reconfigured as spontaneous discrimination or systemic inequality, are neither historically synchronic nor ethically and politically equivalent. What the minoritarian presence reveals are the limits of pluralist ‘progress’. Hybridity as a critique gets straight to the point on this issue: the failures of minoritarian rights and protections ‘are repressed contradictions that haunt modern politics: in this ix
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