Week 13 Qs Zahra

 How does Néstor García Canclini’s hybridization challenge the totalizing logics of global capitalism as critiqued in du Gay’s discussion of the discursive ordering of economic life? In what ways can hybrid cultural forms be understood as both products of and resistances to the neoliberal rationalities embedded in globalization discourse?

How does Mercer’s sociography of diaspora and Stratton and Ang’s critique of the impossibility of a global cultural studies problematize the universalist assumptions embedded in British Cultural Studies? How do they reframe cultural identity as contingent, diasporic, and spatially situated, rather than fixed or hegemonic?