Mike Featherstone is Professor of Communications and Sociology at Nottingham Trent University. CONTRIBUTORS OUTSIDE NORTH AMERICA : Zygmunt Bauman University of Leeds Henning Bech University of Copenhagen Elizabeth Beck-Gernsheim Universtiy of Erlangen Mary Evans University of Kent at Canterbury David Frisby University of Glasgow Mike Hepworth University of Aberdeen Eva Illouz Tel-Aviv University Maria Esther Maciel Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais Michael Richardson SOAS, University of London Laura Rival University of Kent at Canterbury Andrew Travers Somerset Jeffrey Weeks South Bank University Sasha Weitman Tel-Aviv University Sam Whimster London Guildhall University Elizabeth Wilson University of North London Cas Wouters University of Utrecht

`An impressive collection of essays focused on topics such as the possible emergence of a world culture, the character of the transnational culture of international law, financial markets and global media conglomerates, and the reactive possibilities of nationalist and fundamentalist movements. Pernicious perhaps to select from such a stimulating bunch but Bauman on Modernity and Ambivalence, Dezalay on the Big Bang and the Law, O′Neill on AIDS and Tenbruch on development policies indicate the quality of the field′ - Network`Provides some interesting and useful overviews and numerous individual insights into the debate of sociologists over the issues of local and global cultural analysis. The writing and editing are crisp, and arguments flow well′ - Futures`The contributors to this stimulating special issue of Theory, Culture & Society reflect on the causes and consequences of the rise of global society. GlobalCulture offers a timely report on work-in-progress at the limits of the discipline′ - Sociology`This is a rich and stimulating collection of heterogeneous reflections on the theme of `the global′. Rich in the variety of themes and perspectives′ - Jan Nederveen Pieterse, Institute of Social Studies, The Hague

• Global Culture(s) - Mike FeatherstoneAn IntroductionMapping the Global Condition - Roland RobertsonCulture as the Ideological Background of the Modern World-System - Immanuel WallersteinCulture and the World-System - Roy BoyneCulture as the World-System - Immanuel WallersteinA Reply to Roy BoyneTurning World-Systems Theory on its Head - Alberg BergesenModels of the Modern World-System - Peter WorsleyTheory, Culture and Post-Industrial Society - Margaret ArcherThe Idea of Revolution - Alain TouraineModernity and Ambivalence - Zygmunt BaumanTowards a Global Culture? - Anthony D SmithThe Dream of a Secular Ecumene - Friedrich H TenbruckThe Meaning and Limits of Policies of DevelopmentNationalism, Globalization and Modernity - Johann ArnasonCosmopolitans and Locals in World Culture - Ulf HannerzConflicts of Culture in Cross-Border Legal Relations - Volkmar Gessner and Angelike SchadeA Research Topic in the Sociology of LawThe Big Bang and the Law - Yves DezalayThe Internationalization and Restructuration of the Legal FieldDisjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy - Arjun AppaduraiBeing in the World - Jonathan FriedmanGlobalization and LocalizationAIDS as a Globalizing Panic - John O′NeillThe Two Faces of Sociology - Bryan S TurnerGlobal or National?Norbert Elias′s Theory of Humanity as a Very Long-Term Social Process - Stephen MennellPrivatization and the Public Influence of Religion in Global Society - Peter BeyerArchitecture, Capital and the Globalization of Culture - Anthony King

Mike Featherstone is Professor of Communications and Sociology at Nottingham Trent University. CONTRIBUTORS OUTSIDE NORTH AMERICA : Zygmunt Bauman University of Leeds Henning Bech University of Copenhagen Elizabeth Beck-Gernsheim Universtiy of Erlangen Mary Evans University of Kent at Canterbury David Frisby University of Glasgow Mike Hepworth University of Aberdeen Eva Illouz Tel-Aviv University Maria Esther Maciel Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais Michael Richardson SOAS, University of London Laura Rival University of Kent at Canterbury Andrew Travers Somerset Jeffrey Weeks South Bank University Sasha Weitman Tel-Aviv University Sam Whimster London Guildhall University Elizabeth Wilson University of North London Cas Wouters University of Utrecht

`An impressive collection of essays focused on topics such as the possible emergence of a world culture, the character of the transnational culture of international law, financial markets and global media conglomerates, and the reactive possibilities of nationalist and fundamentalist movements. Pernicious perhaps to select from such a stimulating bunch but Bauman on Modernity and Ambivalence, Dezalay on the Big Bang and the Law, O′Neill on AIDS and Tenbruch on development policies indicate the quality of the field′ - Network`Provides some interesting and useful overviews and numerous individual insights into the debate of sociologists over the issues of local and global cultural analysis. The writing and editing are crisp, and arguments flow well′ - Futures`The contributors to this stimulating special issue of Theory, Culture & Society reflect on the causes and consequences of the rise of global society. GlobalCulture offers a timely report on work-in-progress at the limits of the discipline′ - Sociology`This is a rich and stimulating collection of heterogeneous reflections on the theme of `the global′. Rich in the variety of themes and perspectives′ - Jan Nederveen Pieterse, Institute of Social Studies, The Hague

• Global Culture(s) - Mike FeatherstoneAn IntroductionMapping the Global Condition - Roland RobertsonCulture as the Ideological Background of the Modern World-System - Immanuel WallersteinCulture and the World-System - Roy BoyneCulture as the World-System - Immanuel WallersteinA Reply to Roy BoyneTurning World-Systems Theory on its Head - Alberg BergesenModels of the Modern World-System - Peter WorsleyTheory, Culture and Post-Industrial Society - Margaret ArcherThe Idea of Revolution - Alain TouraineModernity and Ambivalence - Zygmunt BaumanTowards a Global Culture? - Anthony D SmithThe Dream of a Secular Ecumene - Friedrich H TenbruckThe Meaning and Limits of Policies of DevelopmentNationalism, Globalization and Modernity - Johann ArnasonCosmopolitans and Locals in World Culture - Ulf HannerzConflicts of Culture in Cross-Border Legal Relations - Volkmar Gessner and Angelike SchadeA Research Topic in the Sociology of LawThe Big Bang and the Law - Yves DezalayThe Internationalization and Restructuration of the Legal FieldDisjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy - Arjun AppaduraiBeing in the World - Jonathan FriedmanGlobalization and LocalizationAIDS as a Globalizing Panic - John O′NeillThe Two Faces of Sociology - Bryan S TurnerGlobal or National?Norbert Elias′s Theory of Humanity as a Very Long-Term Social Process - Stephen MennellPrivatization and the Public Influence of Religion in Global Society - Peter BeyerArchitecture, Capital and the Globalization of Culture - Anthony King

Mike Featherstone is Professor of Communications and Sociology at Nottingham Trent University. CONTRIBUTORS OUTSIDE NORTH AMERICA : Zygmunt Bauman University of Leeds Henning Bech University of Copenhagen Elizabeth Beck-Gernsheim Universtiy of Erlangen Mary Evans University of Kent at Canterbury David Frisby University of Glasgow Mike Hepworth University of Aberdeen Eva Illouz Tel-Aviv University Maria Esther Maciel Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais Michael Richardson SOAS, University of London Laura Rival University of Kent at Canterbury Andrew Travers Somerset Jeffrey Weeks South Bank University Sasha Weitman Tel-Aviv University Sam Whimster London Guildhall University Elizabeth Wilson University of North London Cas Wouters University of Utrecht

`An impressive collection of essays focused on topics such as the possible emergence of a world culture, the character of the transnational culture of international law, financial markets and global media conglomerates, and the reactive possibilities of nationalist and fundamentalist movements. Pernicious perhaps to select from such a stimulating bunch but Bauman on Modernity and Ambivalence, Dezalay on the Big Bang and the Law, O′Neill on AIDS and Tenbruch on development policies indicate the quality of the field′ - Network`Provides some interesting and useful overviews and numerous individual insights into the debate of sociologists over the issues of local and global cultural analysis. The writing and editing are crisp, and arguments flow well′ - Futures`The contributors to this stimulating special issue of Theory, Culture & Society reflect on the causes and consequences of the rise of global society. GlobalCulture offers a timely report on work-in-progress at the limits of the discipline′ - Sociology`This is a rich and stimulating collection of heterogeneous reflections on the theme of `the global′. Rich in the variety of themes and perspectives′ - Jan Nederveen Pieterse, Institute of Social Studies, The Hague

• Global Culture(s) - Mike FeatherstoneAn IntroductionMapping the Global Condition - Roland RobertsonCulture as the Ideological Background of the Modern World-System - Immanuel WallersteinCulture and the World-System - Roy BoyneCulture as the World-System - Immanuel WallersteinA Reply to Roy BoyneTurning World-Systems Theory on its Head - Alberg BergesenModels of the Modern World-System - Peter WorsleyTheory, Culture and Post-Industrial Society - Margaret ArcherThe Idea of Revolution - Alain TouraineModernity and Ambivalence - Zygmunt BaumanTowards a Global Culture? - Anthony D SmithThe Dream of a Secular Ecumene - Friedrich H TenbruckThe Meaning and Limits of Policies of DevelopmentNationalism, Globalization and Modernity - Johann ArnasonCosmopolitans and Locals in World Culture - Ulf HannerzConflicts of Culture in Cross-Border Legal Relations - Volkmar Gessner and Angelike SchadeA Research Topic in the Sociology of LawThe Big Bang and the Law - Yves DezalayThe Internationalization and Restructuration of the Legal FieldDisjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy - Arjun AppaduraiBeing in the World - Jonathan FriedmanGlobalization and LocalizationAIDS as a Globalizing Panic - John O′NeillThe Two Faces of Sociology - Bryan S TurnerGlobal or National?Norbert Elias′s Theory of Humanity as a Very Long-Term Social Process - Stephen MennellPrivatization and the Public Influence of Religion in Global Society - Peter BeyerArchitecture, Capital and the Globalization of Culture - Anthony King