Cultural Politics in a Global Age: Uncertainty, Solidarity, and Innovation

What is the future of culture in the 21st century? With contributions from Will Hutton, Homi Bhabha, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Jürgen Habermas and Amartya Sen, among others, this compendium of some of the world’s most prominent and diverse thinkers gathers together a broad range of answers to the question, ‘What is the future of culture in the age of globalization?’ From the perspectives of academia, international relations, business, economics, policy making, cultural institutions, artists, and their audiences, these diverse essays from internationally acclaimed thinkers around the world represent a major theoretical and methodological challenge to the social sciences, and raise questions about the nature of globalization and the culture of change.