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This paper offers a historical analysis of cultural identification among locals and cosmopolitans in Amsterdam, the centre of the seventeenth century world system. Here, the convergence of global processes and local changes, such as increasing monetization, commodification and anonymization of everyday lives generated conditions that contributed to the formation of modern individual and group identities. Early modern globalization gave rise to a "global animus" in Amsterdam and it prompted the city's political elites to promote a cosmopolitan civic identity, expressed in allegoric art and architecture. On a theoretical level this paper criticizes objectifying or essentializing approaches to cultural globalization and to cultural identity and highlights instead the contradictions and ambiguities involved in the processes of attributing cultural meaning. A discussion of the poetry of Jacob Cats (1577–1660) reveals how local actors attributed contesting cultural meanings to the objects of global trade and how they acculturated them in different ways into their practices of local or cosmopolitan identification.

Globale Nachhaltigkeit und Demokratie sind für Klaus Töpfer untrennbar miteinander verbunden.Welchen Beitrag leistet dazu die Technikfolgenabschätzung? ; For Klaus Töpfer, global sustainability and democracy are inseparably linked with each other. How does technology assessment contribute to this?

In this interview for TATuP, conducted at the Institut national de la recherche scientifique in Montreál, Benoît Godin responds to Ulrich Ufer's questions about the history of the concept of innovation and its uses in present and past discourses on social ...

In this interview for TATuP, conducted at the Institut national de la recherche scientifique in Montreál, Benoît Godin responds to Ulrich Ufer's questions about the history of the concept of innovation and its uses in present and past discourses on social change.

In this interview for TATuP, conducted at the Institut national de la recherche scientifique in Montreál, Benoît Godin responds to Ulrich Ufer's questions about the history of the concept of innovation and its uses in present and past discourses on social change.

La question centrale soulevée dans notre article est celle-ci : dans quel sens peut-on parler de savoir mondial. S'agit-il du corollaire inévitable et de la marque intellectuelle des sociétés du savoir à l'ère de la mondialisation, ou bien la diffusion de systèmes de savoir répond-elle à une demande mondiale face à des problèmes perçus comme universels ? En quoi la circulation du savoir modifie-t-elle ce dernier et à qui sa mondialisation profite-t-elle ou nuit-elle ? Il importe de distinguer le savoir de l'information pure et simple ; l'ancrage du savoir dans un contexte local est un frein et un obstacle à sa diffusion horizontale et verticale. En outre, la mondialisation du savoir soulève le problème de la propriété du savoir et, s'agissant de la question des droits de propriété intellectuelle, il conviendrait d'examiner d'autres thèses, comme celle de l'autoprotection du savoir. Certaines théories politiques et idéalistes considèrent le savoir comme un bien collectif par excellence. Si les échanges de biens et de services et la révolution de la communication numérique sont perçus comme des vecteurs clés de diffusion, nul ne sait encore s'ils aboutiront à une libre diffusion ou, au contraire, à une concentration. La seconde partie de l'article offre un aperçu des articles présentés dans ce dossier.

Our article centres on the question in the sense in which it may be possible to speak of global knowledge, in the first instance. Is it the necessary outcome and the intellectual mark of an age of globalising knowledge societies or is the global demand for the dissemination of knowledge systems trying to answer universally perceived problems? What changes occur to knowledge as it travels and for whom does its globalisation yield benefit or harm? Knowledge must be differentiated from mere information and its locally embedded nature poses serious challenges to opportunities and obstacles for its horizontal and vertical dissemination. Further, global worlds of knowledge raise questions over the ownership of knowledge. Intellectual property claims should be discussed with reference to opposing views, such as those concerning the thesis of knowledge's self-protective character. Some political and certain idealistic conceptions regard knowledge as common property par excellence. While trade in services and products as well as the digital communications revolution are identified as major vehicles for the dissemination of knowledge, it is yet an open question as to whether they will result in the unhindered dissemination of knowledge or in concentrating it. The second section of the article overviews and introduces the articles in this volume. Adapted from the source document.