Seminars

Thinking Aloud 2005 – Funded by Shell International Ltd. shell logo

Publication

Cultural Politics in a Global Age: Uncertainty, Solidarity and Innovation. Edited by David Held and Henrietta L. Moore, 2008

Introduction: Cultural Futures    David Held and Henrietta L. Moore
    PART I: Culture and the Public Domain
  1. The Problem of Culture   Henrietta L. Moore
  2. The Capacity to Aspire: Culture and the Terms of Recognition   Arjun Appadurai
  3. Notes on Globalisation and Ambivalence   Homi K. Bhabha
  4. Culture and Captivity   Amartya Sen
  5. Realistic Cosmopolitanism: How do Societies Handle Otherness?   Ulrich Beck
  6. Religious Tolerance – The Pacemaker for Cultural Rights   Jürgen Habermas
    7. PART II: Cultural Technologies and Social Transformations
  7. Global Immediacy   John Tomlinson
  8. Glimpsing God in the Internet   Don Slater
  9. The Politics of Culture and Culture as Politics   Danny Schechter
  10. Navigating Digital Geographies   Augustus Casely-Hayford
  11. Martin Heidegger Goes to the Movies   John Hutnyk
    12. PART III: The Crisis of Liberalism and Secularism
  12. Liberalism, Secularism and the Challenge of Religion – Is there a Crisis?   Paul Kelly
  13. The Problem of Oppressive Cultures   Kok-Chor Tan
  14. Cultures and Religions of Liberalism in a Global Era   Pheng Cheah
  15. National Identity Versus Cosmopolitan Identity   Montserrat Guibernau
  16. Cultural Diversity, Cosmopolitan Principles and the Limits of Sovereignty   David Held
    17. PART IV: Soft Power and the Question of ‘Americanisation’
  17. Culture, Soft Power, and ‘Americanization’   Joseph S. Nye, Jr
  18. Calling All Patriots: The Cosmopolitan Appeal of Americanism   Anne-Marie Slaughter and Thomas Hale
  19. Can Hollywood Still Rule the World?   Janet Wasko
  20. Race, Rice and the Info-war   Paul Gilroy
  21. Hard Times for Soft Power? America and the Atlantic Community   Michael Cox and Adam Quinn
    22. PART V: Interpretive Communities
  22. The World Is Not Flat   Akbar S. Ahmed
  23. Ritual Economy and Rural Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics   Mayfair Mei-hui Yang
  24. Cosmopolitan Contamination   Kwame Anthony Appiah
  25. On Global Measures of Culture: A View from India   Kriti Kapila
  26. Culture, Reconciliation and Community Building: Lessons from South Africa   The Most Reverend Njongonkulu Ndungane
  27. Cultural Diversity and Integration in the European Union   James Tully
    28. PART VI: Markets, Corporations and Ethics
  28. Business and Global Health in an Era of Globalization: Reflections on Public/Private Partnerships as a Cultural Innovation   Jeffrey L. Sturchio
  29. Pharmaceuticals, Healthcare and Anomalies of the Patent System   Yusuf Hamied
  30. Future Making: Corporate Performativity and the Temporal Politics of Markets   Georgina Born
  31. Globalisation and Threats to the West   Will Hutton
  32. Cultural Transformations: Financial Markets and Corporate Governance   Howard Davies
    33. PART VII: The Production of New Desires and Subjectivities
  33. Living in Utopia   Zygmunt Bauman
  34. New Subjectivities?   Darian Leader
  35. Displacement in Zion: Modern Subjectivities on the Move   Jacqueline Rose
  36. Lost and Found   Doreen Baingana
  37. Productive Anticipation   Irit Rogoff and Florian Schneider
  38. Subjectivity in Times of Abundance of Choice   Renata Salecl
  39. Fashioning the Late Modern Body: The Democratisation of Beauty   Susie Orbach