A major factor driving contemporary concerns about the fate of intangible cultural property is
the rise of the Information Society, which has proven adept at stripping information from the …

Immigrant cultures are routinely posed as threats to national culture. Particular
understandings of immigrant and national cultures underlie cultural politics. Culturalism …

The notions of risk and resilience are increasingly relevant to cultural heritage.
Archaeological sites and monuments in particular are widely perceived to be vulnerable and …

This series aims to overcome the current fragmented nature of the study of food by
encouraging interdisciplinary studies of food and serving as a meeting place for a diverse …

We are currently witnessing the global diffusion of multiculturalism, both as a political
discourse and as a set of international legal norms. States today are under increasing …

Executive summary Planned and unplanned migrations, diverse social practices, and
emerging disease vectors transform how health and wellbeing are understood and …

Gerard Delanty provides a comprehensive assessment of the idea of cosmopolitanism in
social and political thought which links cosmopolitan theory with critical social theory. He …

Globalization is not a new experience. The anthropologist Jan Nederveen Pieterse (2004)
maintains that anthropologists, economists, historians, political scientists and sociologists …

For the first time in human history, the vast majority of the world's population is connected
through trade, travel, production, media and politics. Ours is an era of ubiquitous mobile …

Dominant approaches to the transformation of Europe ignore contemporary social theory
interpretations of the nature and dynamics of social change. Here, Delanty and Rumford …