The transformations in global communications and political economy are causing changes in the categories on which cultures are based - race, gender, ethnicity,

A pervasive force, globalization has come to represent the export and import of culture, the speed and intensity of which has increased to unprecedented levels

In this book leading social scientists from many countries analyze the extent to which we are seeing a globalization of culture. Is a unified world culture emer

Globalization is now widely discussed but the debates often remain locked within particular disciplinary discourses. This book brings together for the first tim