As with the three previous titles in the Cultures and Globalization Series, this is a cutting edge collection from an international group of authors. Heritage and memory in particular are key themes in international cultural and media studies.

The common saying is that people have a culture. This book argues that people live a culture – which may explain why they are so affectively attached to it. By considering cultural interactions on a global scale, this book investigates how cultures can be understood in terms of conflict and cooperation, in relation to the nationstate, a multiplicity of worlds, society, civilization and community. It considers how culture is at the basis of the construction of individual and collective selve...