Globalization, Culture, and Development The UNESCO Convention on Cultural Diversity

by De Beukelaer, Christiaan; Pyykkönen, Miikka; Singh, J P

• ISBN13: 9781137397621
• ISBN10: 1137397624
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2015-06-30
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

The 2005 UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions provides an international policy lens for analysing broad debates on issues of cultural globalization and development. The interdisciplinary contributions in this volume offer a fresh understanding of these key issues whilst examining cultural globalization, which is conceived in terms of artistic expressions and entertainment industries and interpreted anthropologically as the rituals, symbols, and practices of everyday life. The broad gamut of theories, methods, and evidence collected by the editors outlines UNESCO's accomplishments, shortcomings, and future policy prospects. This edited collection has a clear message: The Convention is a useful and important instrument in the debate on cultural diversity, but not broad enough or sufficient to confront major challenges concerning human rights, sustainability, and cultural diversity as a whole.

Author Biography

Christiaan De Beukelaer is Lecturer in Cultural Management at Queen Margaret University in Edinburgh, UK. His research focuses primarily on the role of culture and cultural industries in human development. He is a member of the U40 Network, member of COST Action 'Investigating Cultural Sustainability,' and is winner of the 2012 Cultural Policy Research Award.

Miikka Pyykkönen is Lecturer in the Cultural Policy Master's program at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. He specializes in politics of cultural diversity and multiculturalism, civil society, Foucauldian methodology and analytics of power, governance of ethnic minorities and indigenous peoples, and European and Finnish immigration policies.

JP Singh is Professor of Global Affairs and Cultural Studies at George Mason University, USA. Singh has authored four monographs, edited two books, and published dozens of scholarly articles. He has advised international organizations such as UNESCO, the World Bank, and the World Trade Organization.

Table of Contents

Introduction; Christiaan De Beukelaer and Miikka Pyykkönen
PART I: CULTURE
1. Confusing Culture, Polysemous Diversity: 'Culture' and 'Cultural Diversity' in and after the Convention; Yudhishthir Raj Isar and Miikka Pyykko¨nen
2. Cultural Globalisation and the Convention (JP Singh)
3. Competing perspectives? WTO and UNESCO on cultural diversity in global trade; Jan Loisen and Caroline Pauwels
PART II: DIVERSITY
4. 'Cultural diversity' at UNESCO: a trajectory; Galia Saouma and Yudhishthir Raj Isar
5. Cultural and biological diversity: interconnections in ordinary places; Nathalie Blanc and Katriina Soini
6. The 'Culture and Trade' Paradox Reloaded; Rostam Neuwirth
7. Cultural Diversity, Global Change and Social Justice: Contextualizing the Convention in a World in Flux; John Clammer
PART III: CONVENTION
8. Cultural Human Rights and the UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions: More than Meets the Eye?; Yvonne Donders
9. Performativity and dynamics of intangible cultural heritage; Christoph Wulf
10. The 2005 Convention in the Digital Age; Véronique Guèvremont
PART IV: LOOKING AHEAD
11. Cultural Diplomacy and the 2005 UNESCO Convention; Carla Figueira
12. The 2005 UNESCO Convention and Civil Society – an Initial Assessment; Helmut K. Anheier and Michael Hoelscher
13. Culture and Sustainable Development: Beyond the Diversity of Cultural Expressions; Christiaan De Beukelaer and Raquel Freitas
Conclusions; JP Singh
Appendix: The 2005 UNESCO Convention on the protection and promotion of the diversity of cultural expressions