Cultural Hybridity

<p>This book brings together a group of scholars from diverse disciplines to interrogate everyday life events in various interpersonal and organizational contexts so as to answer an age-old question: what happens when (carriers of) cultures meet or when East meets West? The contributors to this volume argue that rather than assume clashes of civilizations assimilation conversion and essentialism to be the expected outcomes of cultural encounters we should focus our analytical attention on processes rather than outcomes; on emergence dialectics contradictions ironies and paradoxes and complexity. We should focus on attempting to learn and grow to synthesize and integrate to create and innovate to change and transform at personal micro macro and global levels. Or in one word: hybridity. </p><p>Contexts of cultural encounters analyzed in this book range from business organizations through individual travels to personal philosophies and from mechanical models to complex systems as social imaginaries.</p><p>This book is based on a special issue of <em>World Futures: The Journal of General Evolution</em>.</p>