Cultures and Globalization; Conflicts and Tensions

by Helmut K Anheier

• ISBN13: 9781412934725
• ISBN10: 1412934729
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-04-13
• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd

Summary

The world's cultures and their forms of creation, presentation, and preservation are deeply affected by globalization in ways that are inadequately documented and understood. This book is designed to fill this glaring gap in our knowledge. Analyzing the relationship between globalization and cultures is the core objective of this volume. In it leading experts track cultural trends in all regions of the world, covering issues ranging from the role of cultural difference in politics and governance to heritage conservation, artistic expression, and the cultural industries. The book also includes a data section that consolidates the recently commenced but still inchoate work of cultural indicators. The publication of this book marks the inauguration of a series of books on World Cultures. Like so many other phenomena that characterize and are generated by globalization, conflict/culture relationships remain inadequately analyzed. This applies in particular to cultural identities and their forms of expression, creation, maintenance and renewal. The theme is not only to ensure well-being of the cultural-artistic dimension in the process of globalization. More than that, and in a broad and genuine sense, this book and the series as a whole are meant to serve the cause of peace and security through open debate, learning and understanding.

Table of Contents

Approaches and Developments

Globalization and Cultural Conflict

An Institutional Approach

Dimensions of Conflict in Globalization and Cultural Practice

A Critical Perspective

Ethnicity and War in a World of Nation-States

Resistance to Cultural Globalization

A Comparative Analysis

Cultural Expression in Globalized Conflict

Cause or Victim?Conflict and the Deliberate Destruction of Cultural Heritage

Regional Realities

Cultures, conflict, and Globalization

Africa

Regional Realities in the Arab World

Globalization and Asian Values

Globalization and the European Social Model

Latin America

Diversity, Invention and Crisis in Cultural Production

Managing Cultural Conflicts

State Power and Alternative Globalization in China

Capitalism, Conflict and Churn

How the American Culture War Went Global

Fault Lines: Tensions, Values and Migration

Tensions

Tensions between the North and South

The West versus the Arab World

Deconstructing the Divide

Islam Between Religious-Cultural Practice and Identity Politics

Europe versus America: A Growing Clash within the West?

Values

Value Patterns in Europe and the United States

Is there a Transatlantic Rift?Why Religion Didn't Disappear?

Re-examining the Secularization Thesis

Migration

Migration, Security and Culture in the USA

Migration

Migration, Conflict and Illegitimacy

A Malaysian Case Study

Culture as a Tool of Conflict Prevention and Resolution

Creating Concord Organizations

Institutional Design for Bridging Antagonistic Cultures

Performance, Globalization and Conflict Promotion//Resolution

Experiences from Sri Lanka

Performing Gacaca in Rwanda

Local Culture for Justice and Reconciliation

From Violence to Discourse

Conflict and Citizens' Radio Stations in Columbia

The Pedagogy of Drums

Culture Mediating Conflict in the Slums of Brazil

Indicator Suites

Introducing cultural indicator suites

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