The hybridization of a culture, as it absorbs and transforms forces from outside; the production of new local forms in response to globalization; ‘a term now widely used to refer to processes of cultural change in the Caribbean and elsewhere, that contributed to the development of culturally hybrid social forms’ (Lambert (2004) PHG 28). Carter (2005) Area 37, 1 thinks that creolization overcomes ‘the fixed and essentialized assumptions regarding both identity and territory’. Adams and Ghose (2003) PHG 27, 4 discuss cultural creolization—tandoori pizza, anyone?