Transcultural Europe

ULRIKE HANNA MEINHOF is Professor of German and Cultural Studies at the University of Southampton, UK. She has co-ordinated two EU research projects (www.borderidentities.com and www.citynexus.com). Recent publications include The Language of Belonging (with D. Galasinski, Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), Living (with) Borders (ed. 2002) and Bordering European Identities (special issue of JEMS). ANNA TRIANDAFYLLIDOU is Senior Fellow at ELIAMEP in Athens, Greece and at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. She is Visiting Professor at the College of Europe

'It will definitely appeal to a wide range of readers, students, academics and cultural policy experts alike, interested in cultural policy and cultural diversity issues. It gives a broad overviw of a range of topics without dwelling too long upon single questions and issues.' - Ulla-Alexandra Mattl, Arts Management Newsletter

• List of Figures Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Transcultural Europe: An Introduction to Cultural Policy in a Changing Europe; U.H.Meinhof & A.Triandafyllidou PART 1: CULTURAL POLICY IN EUROPE An Overview of Issues The Logic of Europeanizing Cultural Policy Making; M.Sassatelli Imagined or Real Divides?; M.D.Sesic & S.Dragojevic Perspectives on Cultural Diversity: A Discourse Analytical Approach; N.Kiwan & U.H.Meinhof Challenge of Migrants for a New Take on Europe; A.Aksoy PART 2: URBAN AND METROPOLITAN PERSPECTIVES The 'Whiteness' of Cultural Policy in Paris and Berlin; N.Kiwan & K.Kosnick London and the Project of Urban Cosmopolitanism; A.Aksoy Despite and Beyond Cultural Policy: Third and Fourth Sector Practices and Strategies in Vienna and Belgrade; M.Böse, B.Busch & M.D.Sesic Urban Cultural Policy and Immigrants in Rome: Multiculturalism or Simply 'Paternalism'?; A.Kosic & A.Triandafyllidou PART 3: TRANSNATIONAL AND TRANSCULTURAL CONNECTIONS Beyond the Diaspora: Transnational Practices as Transcultural Capital; U.H.Meinhof & A.Triandafyllidou The Three Nexal Registers: Identity, Peripheral Cultural Industry, Alternative Cultures; N.Janovic & R.Mocnik Towards a Transcultural Policy for European Cosmopolitanism; K.Robins Index