Cultural politics of Europe European capitals of culture and European Union since 1980s

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The European capitals of culture in context : cultural policy and the European integration process / Uta Staiger -- The changing concept of the European capitals of culture : between the endorsement of European identity and city advertising / Jürgen Mittag -- Europe's several capitals of culture : from celebration over regeneration to polycentric capitalization / Monica Sassatelli -- Integration by expertise : transnational experts and the European Commission in European cultural policies / Kiran Klaus Patel -- Florence European capital of culture 1986 and the legitimization of an EEC cultural policy / Oriane Calligaro -- Wall-city visions : representations of Europe in the context of Berlin Kulturhauptstadt Europas (1988) / Marc Schalenberg -- Peripheral ECOCs between cultural policy and cultural governance : the case of Sibiu 2007 / Daniel Habit -- "We keep on building" : the "unsuccessful" application of Görlitz/Zgorzelec 2010 / Annina Lottermann -- Europeanization from the margins? : Istanbul's cultural capital initiative and the formation of European cultural policies / Banu Karaca -- Mediating European heritage : practices and appropriations of European heritage policy in Serbia / Claske Vos -- Lefkosia/Lefkosa : Europeanization and the politics of culture in a divided city / Gisela Welz.