Avowed identity definition

(Dis) Placing Culture and Cultural Space

Chapter 4

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Chapter Objectives

Describe the relationships among culture, place, cultural space, and identity in the context of globalization.

Explain how people use communicative practices to construct, maintain, negotiate, and hybridize cultural spaces.

Explain how cultures are simultaneously placed and displaced in the global context leading to segregated, contested and hybrid cultural spaces.

Describe the practice of bifocal vision to highlight the linkages between “here” and “there” as well as the connections between present and past.

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Introduction

Explore the cultural and intercultural communication dimensions of place, space and location. We will examine:

The dynamic process of placing and displacing cultural space in the context of globalization.

How people use communicative practices to construct, maintain, negotiate, and hybridize cultural spaces

How segregated, contested, and hybrid cultural spaces are both shaped by the legacy of colonialism and the context of globalization.

How Hip hop culture illustrates the cultural and intercultural dimensions of place, space, and location in the context of globalization

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Placing Culture and Cultural Space

Culture, by definition, is rooted in place with a reciprocal relationship between people and place

Culture:

“Place tilled” in Middle English

Colere : “to inhabit, care for, till, worship” in Latin

In the context of globalization, what is the relationship between culture and place?

Culture is both placed and displaced

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Cultural Space

The communicative practices that construct meanings in, through and about particular places

Cultural space shapes verbal and nonverbal communicative practices

i.e. Classrooms, dance club, library.

Cultural spaces are constructed through the communicative practices developed and lived by people in particular places

Communicative practices include:

The languages, accents, slang, dress, artifacts, architectural design, the b