Cultural Citizenship and the Challenges of Globalization (Communication, Globalization and Cultural Identity)

Citizenship, culture and globalization, as recent history demonstrates, can be an explosive mix, with the capacity to unsettle not only traditional modes of belonging, but also established ways of thinking about being and belonging. From a range of disciplinary perpectives, the essays in this book engage with the challanges posed by globalization to notions of civic, social and cultural belonging, with the transformative nature of global forces, and with the tensions and contradictions that arise out of the simultaneous pull of cultural homogenization and push for cultural differentiation.