 Canclini takes an interdisciplinary approach to social thought to critically reimagine Latin American issues pertaining to modernity and democracy, "Néstor García Canclini explores the tensions, verging on contradictions, between modernization and democratization in Latin American nation-states.These states regard themselves caught between traditions that have not yet gone and a modernity that has not yet arrived.From its hybrid position between tradition and modernity, the challenge for Latin America is to construct democratic culture and knowledge without succumbing either to the temptations of elite art and literature or to the coercive forces of mass media and marketing.