Cities, Cultural Policy and Governance

The Cultures and Globalization Series

Helmut K. Anheier & Yudhishthir Raj Isar

Editors

SAGE PublicationsLondon

Cultures and Globalization

Cultures, and their forms of creation, presentation and preservation are broadly and deeply affected by globalization — but in ways that are inadequately understood

Why a Cultures and Globalization Series?

Focus:

The intersections between globalization and cultural change

Cultures & Globalization

The interplay is both unifying and divisive, liberating and corrosive, homogenizing and diversifying.

These interactions crystallize both positive aspirations and negative anxieties.

Cultural globalization is being both imposed, and resisted...

…embraced and exploited in myriad ways

The Series• Worldwide scope• Plural: geo-culturally &

conceptually • Academy-based + journalists,

artists, public intellectuals• Both established & emerging

scholars• Entirely foundation-supported:

Riksbanken Jubileumsfond; Compagnia di San Paolo; Gulbenkian Foundation; Prince Claus Fund; J. Paul Getty Trust; Sasakawa Peace Foundation

The Series

Volume 1 (2007)Conflicts and Tensions

Volume 2 (2008)The Cultural Economy

Volume 3 (2010)Cultural Expression, Creativity and Innovation

Volume 4 (2011)Heritage, Memory & Identity

Volume 5 (2012)Cities, Cultural Policy and Governance

(Trans-national, trans-cultural, trans-disciplinary)

Themes

The SeriesVolume Structure

• Overview essays on major issues and emerging trends

• Analytical chapters and case studies on regions, topics, fields

• Indicator Suites on cultural phenomena, trends, events, etc.

The Cultural Economy, 2008

Framework(Guest Editor: Stuart Cunningham)

• Globalization → production, distribution and consumption of cultural goods and services

• How the relationships between cultural creators, producers and consumers are being modified

• The vibrancy of the cultural economy in different countries and regions

• What the policy challenges are…

Cultural expression, creativity and innovation, 2009

• How is globalization affecting artistic practice, creativity and innovation?

• What new forms of creative imagination and practice and entrepreneurship?

• What patterns of diversity and hybdridity? • How are agency and dominance exerted? • Who are the winners and the losers?• What are the policy implications?

41 contributors from 21 countries

Framework

Cities, Cultural Policy and Governance

51 contributors/24 countries on cities as…

• Protagonists of cultural policy and politics

• ‘Mixing bowls’ in which the combined and uneven processes of globalization play out

• Generators of innovative policy-making

• Loci of key cultural visions, projects, exchanges and networks

(Oz: Stuart C., Terry F., Mark G., Ramon Lobato, Justin O.)


51 contributors/24 countries on:

• The internal cultural dynamics of cities

• City – city interactions

• City – nation interactions

• Local (city) – global interactions


Political and sociological issues:• Cultural diversity and pluralism

• Civil society entities and networks

• Global organizations and cities

• Tools of cultural governance


Socio-economic issues:• Political economy of urban cultures

• Economic transformations and renewals

• Branding processes

• Sustainable development


Urban planning issues:

• Spaces and infrastructures

• Urban regeneration

• Cities and the digital environment

• 9 Overview essays

• 21 ‘city experiences’

• 1 photo essay

• 3 overarching indicator suites

• 9 ‘city suites’ (quantitative indicators)


• Brussels, DC and Montevideo as ‘global cities of politics’/Sarikakis

• The informal economies of cities/Lobato

• Cities & interculturalism/Wood

• Cities & sustainability/Duxbury, Cullen & Pascual

• ‘Town & gown’/Klaic

• City branding/Kong

• Spectacularizing urban landscapes/Ponzini

• Creative cities: production and/or consumption/Cunningham

• The ‘creative city’: a revisit/Landry

Overview chapters

Business

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