Producing Cultural Diversity - Hegemonic Knowledge in Global Governance Projects

von: Ulrike Niedner-Kalthoff

Campus Verlag, 2015

ISBN: 9783593430485 , 245 Seiten

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Producing Cultural Diversity - Hegemonic Knowledge in Global Governance Projects


 

Contents

6

Acknowledgements

10

Chapter 1

12

Introduction: Culture and Governance

12

The Case of the Convention

16

Global Governance

17

Governmentality

25

The Convention and Neoliberalism

28

Challenges and Strategies

30

Empirical Research

35

Chapter 2

40

Construction: Framing the Issue of “Cultural Diversity”

40

A Genealogy of the Convention Process

43

Framing the Convention

51

The UNESCO Frame: the Imperilment of Identity, Values, and Meaning

54

The US Frame: “This Convention Is Actually About Trade”

63

The INCD Frame: “The Right of States to Do Whatever They Want”

70

Agendas and Tensions

77

Culture and Cultures

79

Chapter 3

88

Negotiation: Diplomatic Build-Up and Showdown

88

Structure of the Negotiations

89

The Key Conflict

93

Blackboxing Cultural Diversity

100

Culmination of the Conflict

105

The Great Debate

112

Making Sense of the Great Debate

120

Summing It Up

134

Chapter 4

138

Mobilization: Cultural Diversity as an Empty Signifier

138

The Coalitions for Cultural Diversity

140

Unspecific Aims

144

To Commit or Not to Commit

148

Pure Communitarian Being

155

Cultural Diversity Is Us

166

Conclusion

172

Chapter 5

174

Representation: Speaking for Others—Doing Cultural Diversity

174

Reenactment—Representation Taken For Granted

178

Complex Individuals—Simple Collectivities

185

Representation Contested—Assembling the World in a Nutshell

194

Honoring “the International Regions”

201

Representing/Performing Cultural Diversity

208

Concluding Remarks

216

Chapter 6

218

Conclusion: Globalization and Anti-Globalization

218

Looking Back in Detail: Producing/Practicing “Cultural Diversity”

220

Globalization, Anti-Globalization, and the National Frame

224

List of Abbreviations

228

Works Cited

230

Institutional Documents

239

Index

244