Cultures and Globalization: Cultural Expression, Creativity and Innovation(The Cultures and Globalization Series)

′In the globalization ′game′ there are no absolute winners and losers. Neither homogenisation nor diversity can capture its contradictory movement and character. The essays and papers collected here offer, from a variety of perspectives, a rich exploration of creativity and innovation, cultural expressions and globalization. This volume of essays, in all their diversity of contents and theoretical perspectives, demonstrates the rich value of this paradoxical, oxymoronic approach′ - Stuart Hall, Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the Open University Volume 3 of the Cultures & Globalization series, Creativity and Innovations, explores the interactions between globalization and the forms of cultural expression that are their basic resource. Bringing together over 25 high-profile authors from around the world, this volume addresses such questions as: What impacts does globalization have on cultural creativity and innovation? How is the evolving world ′map′ of creativity related to the drivers and patterns of globalization? What are the relationships between creative acts, clusters, genres or institutions and cultural diversity? The volume is an indispensable reference tool for all scholars and students of contemporary arts and culture.

Table of Contents:
Foreword by Stuart Hall Introduction - Yudhishthir Raj Isar and Helmut K Anheier PART ONE: ISSUES AND PATTERNS IN CULTURAL EXPRESSION Creativity: Alternate Paradigms to the ′Creative Economy′ - Rustom Bharucha Recognition and Artistic Creativity - Joni Maya Cherbo and Harold L Vogel Walking with the Devil: Art, Culture and Internationalization - Gerardo Mosquera ...But What Is the Question? Art, Research and the Production of Knowledge - Gilane Tawadros Improvizing in a World of Movement: Transit, Transition and Transformation - Maruška Svašek Diasporic Spaces: Migration, Hybridity and the Geocultural Turn - Keith Nurse Creativity and Intellectual Property Rights - Jason Toynbee Exile, Culture and Identity - Rasoul Nejadmehr The Creativity of Evil? - Dragan Klaic The ′Creator′ as Entrepreneur: An African Perspective - Paul Brickhill The Turn of the Native: Vernacular Creativity in the Caribbean - Annie Paul Creative Contemporary Design in the Arab World - Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès Cultural Policing South Asia: An Anti-Globalization Backlash against Freedom of Expression? - Laurent Gayer, Christophe Jaffrelot and Malvika Maheshwari The Struggle to Express, Create and Represent in the Balkans - Zala Volcic Creative Economy, Global City: Globalizing Discourses and the Implications for Local Arts - Lily Kong The Cycles of Creativity in the Music Industry - Peter Tschmuck Creative Communities and Emerging Networks - Clayton Campbell Creative Spaces - Nancy Duxbury and Catherine Murray Literary Hybrids and the Circuits of Translation: the Example of Mia Couto - Stefan Helgesson Emergencies in Digital Culture - Ivani Santana Fashion and Ethics: Reinventing Models of Consumption and Creativity in a Global Industry - Mo Tomaney and Julie Thomas Creativity and Innovation: the Role of Philanthropy - Diana Leat Digital Networks and Social Innovation: Strategies of the Imagination - Eugenio Tisselli Christopher Waterman Closing Reflections PART TWO: INDICATOR SUITES Cultural Indicator Suites: An Introduction - Helmut K Anheier and Michael Hoelscher Creativity Indexes - Enrico Bertacchini and Walter Santagata Measuring Creativity and Innovation - Michael Hoelscher Policy Regulatory Frameworks Intellectual Property Investment Education Philanthropy Research and Development Diversity Institutions Membership in Organizations Events Places: Indicators for six cities Migration Creativity and Hybridity Indices Hybridity Languages The Blogosphere Eco Trends and Innovation Music New and Syncretic Religions Dance Hip Hop Reality TV Body Art Web 2.0 Creativity, Innovation, Globalization: What International Experts Think - Helmut K Anheier and Michael Hoelscher

About the Author :
Helmut K. Anheier, PhD, is President and Dean at the Hertie School of Governance, and holds a chair of sociology at Heidelberg University. He received his PhD from Yale University in 1986, was a senior researcher at John Hopkins School of Public Policy, Professor of Public Policy and Social Welfare at UCLA′s Luskin School of Public Affairs, and Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics. Professor Anheier founded and directed the Centre for Civil Society at LSE, the Center for Civil Society at UCLA, and the Center for Social Investment at Heidelberg. Before embarking on an academic career, he served as social affairs officer to the United Nations.  He is author of over 400 publications, and won various international prizes and recognitions for his scholarship. Amongst his recent book publications are Nonprofit Organizations - Theory, Management, Policy (London: Routledge, 2014), A Versatile American Institution: The Changing Ideals and Realities of Philanthropic Foundations with David Hammack (Washington, DC: Brookings, 2013) and The Global Studies Encyclopedia with Mark Juergensmeyer (5 vols, Sage, 2012).  He is the principal academic lead of the Hertie School´s annual Governance Report (Oxford University Press, 2013-), and currently working on projects relating to indicator research, social innovation, and success and failure in philanthropy. Yudhishthir Raj Isar is an independent analyst, advisor and public speaker who straddles different worlds of cultural theory, experience and practice. He is Professor of Cultural Policy Studies at The American University of Paris and Adjunct Professor at the Institute for Culture and Society, University of Western Sydney. He has also been maître de conference at Sciences Po, Paris. Professor Isar is co-editor of the Cultures and Globalization Series (SAGE). He is a trustee of civil society cultural organisations and consultant to international organisations and foundations and Past President of Culture Action Europe. Earlier, at UNESCO, where he served from 1973 to 2002, he was notably Executive Secretary of the World Commission on Culture and Development and Director of the International Fund for the Promotion of Culture.

Review :
In the globalization ′game′ there are no absolute winners and losers. Neither homogenisation nor diversity can capture its contradictory movement and character. The essays and papers collected here offer, from a variety of perspectives, a rich exploration of creativity and innovation, cultural expressions and globalization. This volume of essays, in all their diversity of contents and theoretical perspectives, demonstrates the rich value of this paradoxical, oxymoronic approach Stuart Hall Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the Open University It is common experience that we cannot enter another culture as fully as we do our own is patent. It is especially the case if the other culture is marked powerfully by satu bangsar, satu agama, satu bahasa: one race, one religion, one language. These three pillars define a reality that suffuses and binds the life and contacts of individual, community and nation. In this sense, everything is culture which, moreover, creates and sustains a unique, all-encompassing identity that simultaneously consolidates us, as distinguished from them. Consequently - as we know only too well - difference is the first, most durable perception generated by cross-cultural contact. Thus, the mathematics governing the complexities of such contact is not arithmetic, not algebra but calculus and beyond. Even when we agree, there is still considerable room for disagreement and misperception. The mapping is open-ended. Moreover, the study of issues cannot be called development. It is more in the nature of a change, a shift, because there is no certainty of linear progress characteristic of the hard sciences. A corollary to this is that no cultural idea or practice is permanently out-of-date. In these circumstances, the state of the discipline relies on empirical inputs from as many sources as possible, and approaches. Coverage is attentive to both theory as well as case studies, while remaining constantly mindful of that vast terrain that lies between the two. It is here that Cultures and Globalization is unique, is indispensable. Each volume is comprehensive, especially in the way it creates space for different ways of addressing issues and sub-issues, of how it extends area studies to include new geographies and therefore more representative of globalization. As contributors include practitioners, the insights are deeper and closer to the whole notion of creativity which is at the core of all cultures. This is an advantage that must not be overlooked. The three volumes Conflicts and Tensions, The Cultural Economy and Cultural Expression, Creativity and Innovation have contributed much to redefine and extend the field. While each volume has its own unity, the editors have been able to plan succeeding volumes in the light of the impact their work has made. Volumes 4 (2010) and 5 (2011), for instance, will be devoted to "Heritage, Memory, Identity" and "Civil Society and Cultural Policy" respectively. The series is larger than any journal, yet each annual volume possesses the same updated-ness with the additional advantage of a coherent theme which most journals lack. The whole enterprise provides a most exciting self-updating series of studies dealing with every aspect of cultures in an age of expanding globalization. As the series expands, it will consolidate its position as a primary (if not the primary) source which the researcher, the teacher and the student will find difficult to do without. Professors Anheier and Isar deserve our gratitude for designing and putting together this mansion of ideas with its many levels and many doors and tremendous intellectual traffic that they and their contributors have generated Edwin Thumboo poet and Emeritus Professor at National University of Singapore Globalization keeps announcing to us that we are, as humans, all the same, but regrettably, not yet equal. The truth of course is that we are all very different, but as humans, equal. The tensions that surround political and economic equality across the planet are in fact culturally grounded. Unfortunately, most cultural policies, like our globalized wars, are managed from above, from a position high in the air which thinks that a satellite image is "intelligence." In fact, in culture, in war, and in communities, the action is on the ground, and it is diversified and surprising. This volume is a satisfying taste of that surprise factor, and the simultaneous and contradictory realities that cry out for more sophisticated and more basic models of justice. Culture can feed a business for a magical moment, but it actually moves in ways that go right over the heads of politicians and businessmen. Culture is a very particular, moody, ecstatic, and unrelenting lover, who is demanding from us everything we are and might be. This collection of essays opens us insightfully into an experiential world of fluidity, morphing, transitions, and deep transformation, in which the big questions become more subtle, and the answers get harder, but become more miraculous Peter Sellars director of opera, theatre and film, and Professor of World Arts and Cultures at UCLA Both critical summary and forward-looking anlysis, Cultures and Globalization will be an invaluable resource for anyone concerned with the cultural ramifications of globalization. The wide range of styles and inter-disciplinarity makes for an absorbing read. Those of us grappling with the theory, practice, policy and politics of culture - whether that′s on a local, regional, national or international level - will recognise this collection of essays as an indispensable aid. Culture and cultural expression are rapidly assuming more importance in the political arena, grabbing the attention of governments desparate to restore faith in the their ability to implement policies that will deliver better futures. At the same time culture is held responsible for reigniting old conflicts and preventing progress towards more sustainable ways of living. Making sense of the tensions - in meaning and in arguments about the benefits of cultural and creative expression in the contemporary context thus becomes essential. This volume deepens our understanding of the complexities and contradictions of key terms such as ′creativity′, ′cultural expression′ and ′innovation′ and comes at just the right moment Professor Baroness Lola Young