Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-182) and index.
Contents
Consumption is good for thinking -- Mexico : cultural globalization in a disintegrating city -- Urban cultural policies in Latin America -- Narrating the multicultural -- Identities as a multimedia spectacle -- Latin America and Europe as suburbs of Hollywood -- From the public to the private : the "americanization" of spectators -- Multicultural policies and integration via the market -- Negotiation of identity in popular classes? -- How civil society speaks today.