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Contemporary cultural studies have marginalized "agency," namely the power of people to shape social life. Here, Stephen Tumino offers a new materialist challenge to these tendencies and articulates an internationalist cultural theory that puts global agency at the forefront of cultural analysis.

An Interview with Russell Berman, Department of German Studies, Stanford University.

This is the first major European political science book to discuss the growing interdisciplinary field of 'cultural theory', proposing a coherent and viable alternative to mainstream political science. The authors argue that three elements - social relations, cultural bias and behavioural strategy - illuminate political questions at a level of analysis on any scale: from the household to the state; the international regime to the political party.

This is the first major European political science book to discuss the growing interdisciplinary field of 'cultural theory', proposing a coherent and viable alternative to mainstream political science. The authors argue that three elements - social relations, cultural bias and behavioural strategy - illuminate political questions at a level of analysis on any scale: from the household to the state; the international regime to the political party

Preface -- Introduction -- What is culture? -- Alienating the ideal -- Symbolic representation -- Essential identity -- Needs, class and identity -- Identity management -- Symbolic identity -- Art and artifacts -- Consumer culture identity -- Paradigm, parallax and paradox -- Concluding thoughts -- Bibliography -- Index