Cultures and Globalization

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Author: Helmut K Anheier
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
Edition: 1st Edition
ISBN-13: 9781412934749
Publishing year: December 2008
No of pages: 688
Weight: 1 kg 860 grm
Language: English
Book binding: Paperback

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Increasingly we all today live in the kind of edge cultures we used tsee only on the frontiers of civilizations in places like Hong Kong or Istanbul The resulting frictions and fusions are shaping the soul of the coming world order…I can think of nother project with the ambitious scope of defining this emergent reality as The Cultures and Globalization Series - Nathan Gardels, Editor-in-Chief, NPQ, Global Services, Los Angeles Times Syndicate/Tribune Media The worlds cultures and their forms of creation, presentation, and preservation are deeply affected by globalization in ways that are inadequately documented and understood The Cultures and Globalization series is designed tfill this void in our knowledge In this series, leading experts and emerging scholars track cultural trends connected tglobalization throughout the world, resulting in a powerful analytic tool-kit that encompasses the transnational flows and scapes of contemporary cultures Each volume presents data on cultural phenomena through colorful, innovative information graphics tgive a quantitative portrait of the cultural dimensions and contours of globalizationThis second volume, The Cultural Economy, analyzes the dynamic relationship in which culture is part of the process of economic change that in turn changes the conditions of culture It brings together perspectives from different disciplines texamine such critical issues as:The production of cultural goods and services and the patterns of economic globalizationThe relationship between the commodification of the cultural economy and the aesthetic realmCurrent and emerging organizational forms for the investment, production, distribution and consumption of cultural goods and servicesThe complex relations between creators, producers, distributors and consumers of cultureThe policy implications of a globalizing cultural economyBy demonstrating empirically how the cultural industries interact with globalization, this volume will provide students of contemporary culture with a unique, indispensable reference tool