The growing appeal of right-wing politics around the world, in particu-lar with Donald
Trump's election, Brexit, and France's National Front successes, has confounded both …

The last decades of the twentieth century have shaken the foundations of our thinking.
However, it was neither the “end of ideology”, a convergence between capitalism and …

Theory, Culture & Society caters for the resurgence of interest in culture within contemporary
social science and the humanities. Building on the heritage of classical social theory, the …

Much discussed but poorly understood, globalization is at once praised as the answer to all
the world's problems and blamed for everything from pollution to poverty. Here Berger and …

The dream of a cosmopolitical utopia has been around for thousands of years. Yet the
promise of being locally situated while globally connected and mobile has never seemed …

It may seem a rather obvious point to begin with, but to understand the meaning and
character of 'cultural globalization'we first have to understand some defining features of the …

US presidents, including Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, tend to declare that the USA is
the guiding light of the world. All draw on a long tradition, since Abraham Lincoln once …

Today's news media is full of references to'globalization'-a buzz word that is quickly
becoming ubiquitous. But what exactly is globalization? What are its main driving forces …

Globalization is a set of processes that are weakening national boundaries. Both
transnational and local social movements develop to resist the processes of globalization …

This is the first major European political science book to discuss the growing
interdisciplinary field of'cultural theory', proposing a coherent and viable alternative to …