Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Vincenzo Mele and Marina Vujnovic -- Introduction: Globalizing Cultures: Theories, Paradigms, Actions / Vincenzo Mele and Marina Vujnovic -- Investigating Global Culture: Its Creation, Structure, and Meanings / Victoria Reyes -- Global Interaction and Identity in Structuralist and Dialectic Perspectives: Toward a Typology of Psycho-cultural Identities / Ino Rossi -- The Civil Sphere beyond the Western Nation-State: Theoretical and Empirical Reflections on Alexander's Cultural Sociology and Its Contribution to Civil Society Discourse / Peter Kivisto -- The Role of the Nation-State in the Global Age / Andrea Borghini -- Faustian States: Nationalist Politics and the Problem of Legitimacy in the Neoliberal Era / Cory Blad -- Deification of Market; Homogenization of Cultures: 'Free Trade' and Other Euphemisms for Global Capitalism / Gwendolyn Yvonne Alexis -- "Transnational Activism, Feminist Praxis, and Cultures of Resistance" / Nancy A. Naples -- Transnational Flashpublics: Social Media and Affective Contagions from Egypt to Occupy Wall Street / Jack Bratich -- Transnational Feminist Media Practices: Seeking Alliance against Global Capitalism / Marina Vujnovic -- Shifting Contours in Latin American Cultures of Resistance / Ricardo A. Dello Buono -- Distinction and Social Class in America and Europe: Pierre Bourdieu's Theory of Taste in Cross-Cultural Comparison / Vincenzo Mele -- Consumption, Identity, Space: Shopping Malls in Bogotá / Enrico Campo -- Trafficking Gypsiness in the 21st Century / Mihaela Moscaliuc -- Tourism, Expatriates, and Power Relations in Vieques, Puerto Rico / Karen Schmelzkopf -- Overcoming the Divide: Arab Women between Traditional Life and a Globalizing Culture / Saliba Sarsar and Manal Stephan -- The Millennium Development Goals, Gender Equality, and Empowerment in India / Rekha Datta -- Author Index / Vincenzo Mele and Marina Vujnovic -- Subject Index / Vincenzo Mele and Marina Vujnovic.

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