global ecumene

is an alternative word to globalization, a space of interaction, creolization, centers-peripheries, cosmopolitans.

the 'global ecumene' (1989), is a space of interaction among once-separate cultures now growing in dialogue and mutual acknowledgment. Its creolization is created by cultural flows-- particularly flows from powerful centers to less powerful peripheries... it is carried and extended by cosmopolitans who, of necessity, acknowledge and extend European and North American cultural frameworks even as they incorporate and remake non-Western cultures. Center-periphery relations thus organize world culture (Hannerz 1996)' (Tsing 2000).

global ecumene, n.Definitions

global ecumene