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Hybrid Symposium II – Hybrid Cultures and Politics
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If you want to see cultural hybridization in action, watch a Bollywood movie. Globalization brings new pressures on hybridization. Being at once global, continental and local, we are all global, but some of us are more global than others. The world implodes and societies remix. Under the gaze of satellites, the political face of the planet is trying to graduate from nationalism to continentalism. In the mediadriven politics of the globalized economy, keeping in mind the dubious strategies of recycling old concepts to fit new situations, what is the meaning of “democracy”?
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