Introduction : The architectonics of state power : complicity and resistance / Judith Kapferer -- The end of arrogance, the advent of persuasion : public art in a multicultural society / Henri Beunders -- Contesting authenticity and the Promethean complex : the cultural politics of globalization / Terence Chong -- Hijacking cultural policies : art as a healthy virus within social strategies of resistance / Marina Fokidis -- Engaging with history by performing tradition : the poetic politics of indigenous Australian festivals / Rosita Henry -- Urban design and state power : city spaces and the public sphere / Judith Kapferer -- Self and the city : the politics of monuments / Karen Kipphoff -- The culture industries : symbolic economies and critical practices / Malcolm Miles -- The arts, the state, and the EU : cultural policy in the making of Europe / Monica Sassatelli -- Political art, cultural policy, and artistic agency / Jeremy Valentine -- The feeling for gray : aesthetics, politics, and shifting German regimes / Inger-Elin Øye