The Cultural Politics of Europe : European Capitals of Culture and European Union Since the 1980s (Hardcover)

1. Introduction Kiran Klaus Patel 2. The European Capitals of Culture in Context: Cultural Policy and the European Integration Process Uta Staiger 3. The Changing Concept of the European Capitals of Culture: Between the Endorsement of European Identity and City Advertising Jurgen Mittag 4. Europe’s Several Capitals of Culture: From Celebration over Regeneration to Polycentric Capitalization Monica Sassatelli 5.Integration by Expertise: Transnational Experts and the European Commission in European Cultural Policies Kiran Klaus Patel 6. Florence European Capital of Culture 1986 and the Legitimization of an EEC CulturalPolicy Oriane Calligaro 7. Wall-City Visions: Representations of Europe in the Context of ‘Berlin ? Kulturhauptstadt Europas’ (1988) Marc Schalenberg 8. Peripheral ECOCs between Cultural Policy and Cultural Governance: The Case of Sibiu 2007 Daniel Habit 9. ‘We keep on building’: The ‘unsuccessful’ application of Gorlitz/Zgorzelec 2010 Annina Lottermann 10. Europeanization from the Margins? Istanbul’s Cultural Capital Initiative and the Formation of European Cultural Policies Banu Karaca 11. Mediating European Heritage: Practices and Appropriations of European Heritage Policyin Serbia Claske Vos 12. Lefkosia/Lefko?a: Europeanization and the Politics of Culture in a Divided City Gisela Welz