*CFP* "CULTURAL GLOBALIZATION", SPECIAL ISSUE, THE TEXT JOURNAL

We live in a deeply interconnected world. The distances between people and the places they inhabit have become highly compressed in terms of both space and time. Never before in the history of mankind has it been so easy to reach out to and connect with people of different cultures. The set of processes involved in bringing about global interconnectedness and the effect of this interconnectedness on human lives across the world is called globalization. Globalization impacts all spheres of life, including the political, economic and the cultural. However, they are closely related and hence a multidimensional approach is required to understand this complex phenomenon. Globalization is not a recent phenomenon, though; it has been in existence for a long time, although the degree of interconnectedness has varied across different time periods.

We do not need to look beyond the current, challenging circumstances we live in, with the Corona pandemic wreaking havoc across the world to understand globalization and its impact. The pandemic has impacted shopping patterns across the world, run businesses to the ground, forced a rethink on education of children and altered political configurations across the world.

This issue will focus on cultural globalization, as it is closest to the humanities and because the economic and political effects invariably impact the cultural too. It will specifically focus on the interesting responses to cultural globalization as evidenced in literature. There is broad consensus in literature that these responses can be categorized into contestation, homogenization and hybridization. American political scientist, Samuel Huntington holds the opinion that globalization leads to a clash of civilizations. John W. Meyer, John Boli and George Ritzer, among others, consider globalization to be a homogenizing influence. Advocates of this idea hold the view that there is an emergence of a global culture that threatens to subsume local cultures thereby depriving the world of the beauty of their uniqueness. On the other hand, Jan Nederveen Pieterse, Roland Robertson and Arjun Appadurai advocate considering globalization as leading to hybridization. Cultural hybridization holds the view that due to globalization; the world is increasingly witnessing cultural blends and mixtures which are aided and enabled by unprecedented advances in technology.

The Text invites original, unpublished research papers in English for the special issue on a range of themes including, but not limited to, the following topics:

• Responses to Cultural Globalization
• Transnationalism
• Pathways to Development: Modernization vs Westernization
• Migration, Human trafficking, Refugees
• Cuisine and Cultural Globalization

Author Guidelines

• We invite theoretically informed critical and analytical research papers adhering to the
• guidelines below:
• The word limit is 4000-8000 words
• Please follow the latest MLA style sheet
• Please ensure the manuscript is error-free
• Please do not decorate your submission with lines, borders, special characters etc
• Please attach the Plagiarism report of the research paper duly checked in Turnitin/Urkund/Viper - manuscripts with more than 20% plagiarism will not be considered for publication
• Works written in English or translated into English alone will be considered
• Work that has been previously published online or in print will not be considered
• Multiple submissions are not allowed - please provide the bio note, the plagiarism report and the article in a single MS Word file
• Submissions in hard copies (print) will not be accepted. Send all your submissions only through e-mail
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• Please expect 2-4 weeks for our response
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All your original unpublished submissions should be sent to: specialissue.thetext.2020@gmail.com on or before 31st August 2020.