Cultural policy vs. globalization: Diversity against uniformity

Cultural capital theory vs . cultural policy beliefs : How Pierre

This paper explores the possible uses of Bourdieu‟s cultural capital theory in the making of French state cultural policy. It focuses on the following paradox: this theory had an important if not predominant impact on the intellectual background and expertise of cultural policy, but only limited effects on its actual orientations. To understand this paradox, I go back to the 1960s when both cul...

Cultural diversity and anti-poverty policy.

This article examines how anti-poverty policy has considered the role of culture and how it ought to do so. While some have explained poverty as a function of the presumed cultural deficiency or distinctiveness of the poor, we suggest that these explanations have not been convincing and that policy requires a broader and more sophisticated understanding of the relationship between culture and b...

Hybridity in Cultural Globalization

Hybridity has become a master trope across many spheres of cultural research, theory, and criticism, and one of the most widely used and criticized concepts in postcolonial theory. This article begins with a thorough review of the interdisciplinary scholarship on hybridity. Then it revisits the trope of hybridity in the context of a series of articles on cultural globalization published in the ...

Cultural globalization: 2001–10

This article reviews theories concerning the effects of cultural globalization on national cultures, the nature of transnational networks and flows and the emergence of world culture and global civil society. A survey of articles on cultural globalization listed in two information databases in the past decade is used to locate new and revised theories and to identify frequent topics of study an...

Globalization and Social Policy