Diferentes, desiguales y desconectados

In Diferentes, desiguales y desconectados: Mapas de la interculturalidad, Néstor García Canclini looks at how growing technological and economic exchange between cultures has intensified contact without necessarily easing tension between them; he argues that societies tolerate this proximity poorly. Canclini reviews the theoretical tools social scientists have used to think about cultural difference, including the legacies of cultural anthropology, Pierre Bourdieu's sociology and its successors, cultural studies, and communication theory, and asks where each falls short in addressing real interculturality. From a transdisciplinary, Latin American vantage point, he applies this critique to concrete cases such as youth cultures, the so-called knowledge society, and the trajectory of Latin American cinema, structuring the book's argument around the three conditions named in its title: being different, being unequal, and being disconnected from one another. Credits: Canclini, N. (2005). Diferentes, desiguales y desconectados. Barcelona, España: Gedisa.