Review

In the age of globalization we are no longer home alone. Migration brings other worlds into our own just as the global reach of the media transmits our world into the hearts and minds of others. Often incommensurate values are crammed together in the same public square. Increasingly we all today live in the kind of 'edge cultures' we used to see 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 no other project with the ambitious scope of defining this emergent reality than The Cultures and Globalization project. I can think of no more capable minds than Raj Isar and Helmut Anheier who can pull it off
Nathan Gardels
Editor-in-Chief, NPQ, Global Services, Los Angeles Times Syndicate/Tribune Media

This series represents an innovative approach to the central issues of globalization, that phenomenon of such undefined contours
Lupwishi Mbuyumba
Director of the Observatory of Cultural Policies in Africa

"Globalization has received considerable attention from the political and economic perspective.  "The Cultures and Globalization Series" is intended to fill a gap in current research by studying the cultural consequences of globalization.  This volume also includes cultural indicators with a visual representation of data relevant to culture and globalization.  A variety of charts, graphs, and data tables add value.  Summing up: Highly recommended." (M.A. LaMagna )

About the Author

Yudhishthir Raj Isar is Jean Monnet Professor of Cultural Policy Studies at The American Unviersity of Paris, and President of Culture Action Europe (formerly European Forum for the Arts and Heritage).

Helmut K. Anheier (PhD, Yale) is Dean and Professor of Sociology at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin. He holds a chair of Sociology at Heidelberg University and serves as Academic Director of the Center for Social Investment. From 2001 to 2009, he was Professor of Public Policy and Social Welfare at UCLA's School of Public Affairs and Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics. Professor Anheier founded and directed the Centre for Civil Society at LSE and the Center for Civil Society at UCLA. Before embarking on an academic career, he served as social affairs officer to the United Nations. He is currently researching the nexus between globalisation, civil society, and culture and is interested in policy analysis and methodological questions.