Cultural Challenges of Globalization

Hybridity in Cultural Globalization

Hybridity has become a master trope across many spheres of cultural research, theory, and criticism, and one of the most widely used and criticized concepts in postcolonial theory. This article begins with a thorough review of the interdisciplinary scholarship on hybridity. Then it revisits the trope of hybridity in the context of a series of articles on cultural globalization published in the ...

Cultural globalization: 2001–10

This article reviews theories concerning the effects of cultural globalization on national cultures, the nature of transnational networks and flows and the emergence of world culture and global civil society. A survey of articles on cultural globalization listed in two information databases in the past decade is used to locate new and revised theories and to identify frequent topics of study an...

Globalization: Challenges for Indonesia

51 ndonesia has gone a long way in liberalizing its economy, but the task is far from complete. Globalization has given the government a strong justification for undertaking market-oriented reforms that can help maintain high and sustainable rates of exports necessary for strong economic growth. The country’s policy of globalization has been based on pragmatism. It is not grounded on ideologica...

Globalization and The Dynamics of Cultural Identity

This paper presents a simple model where microfounded dynamics of cultural identity are endogenous and interact with an international trade equilibrium. This process generates a strong home bias under autarky. We then show that goods market integration causes a phenomenon of cultural divergence, whereby the distributions of cultures become more dissimilar across countries and one of the culture...

Cultural tourism: challenges and strategies