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It is by now commonplace to make references to the high level of interconnectedness most people in the developed world enjoy (or decry). Some of the most prominent ways that contemporary scholars describe the present moment focus on the network, whether it’s Manuel Castells’s “network society” (Castells 1996–1999) or Luc Boltanski and Ève Chiapello’s “connexionist world” (Boltanski and Chiapello 2005). For these and other scholars, today’s networked world exists because of capitalist processes, though studies of capitalism in the last couple of decades seem to have taken a back seat to studies of what are thought to be its effects, whether one calls them network society or globalization or something else altogether. Yet capitalism, as I have written elsewhere (Taylor n.d.), ought to be the transcendent category of analysis, as it was for so many classic social theorists beginning, of course, with Marx.
I would like to acknowledge my colleagues Helen Rees and Anthony Seeger for generously giving their time and expertise in the early stages of the preparation of this paper. I would also like to thank the members of the conference Networks in Times of Transition. Toward a Transcultural History of International Organisations conference at the University of Heidelberg, especially Madeleine Herren, the convener, Bjarne Rogan, my fellow panelist, and Corinne Pernet, the discussant.
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I am indebted to Rees 2010a and Rees 2010b for this capsule history.
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For a study of UNESCO, intangible cultural heritage, and tourism, see (Di Giovine 2009).
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For more on intangible cultural heritage and the qin, see (Rees 2010b; Yung 2009).
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See also (Maira 2002).
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And Battersby notes, women were increasingly excluded from the category of genius and creativity, even as male creators were praised for their “feminine” qualities, (Battersby 1989, 3). “Creativity,” Battersby writes, was “displaced male procreativity: male sexuality made sublime” (Battresby 1989, 3).
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Taylor, T.D. (2014). New Capitalism, UNESCO, and the Re-enchantment of Culture. In: Herren, M. (eds) Networking the International System. Transcultural Research – Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Europe in a Global Context. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04211-4_11
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