Tony Bennett, Differing diversities - Council of Europe

AcknowledgementsThe study reported on here was a collective project involving collaborative input– as generous in spirit as it was in scale – from all members of the project team thatwas assembled to examine the relations between cultural policy and cultural diversityacross seven countries. I am especially grateful to the national co-ordinators –Greg Baeker for Canada, Andrea Ellmeier (and to her co-authors GerhardBaumgartner and Bernhard Perchinig) for Austria, Antoniy Galabov for Bulgaria,Naseem Khan for the United Kingdom, Josée Kirps and Jean Reitz forLuxembourg, France Lebon and Nouzha Bensalah for Belgium, and UrsulaRellstab for Switzerland – for the quality of their national reports as well as fortheir helpful and insightful comments on the first draft of this report. I am alsograteful to John Foote from the Department of Canadian Heritage, VladimirSimon from the Ministry for Culture in Romania, and Raymond Weber, Directorof Culture and Cultural and Natural Heritage of the Council of Europe for theircontributions to the meeting at which the draft final report was discussed.I am indebted, too, to the authors of the research position papers upon which thisreport also draws. My thanks, then, to Rosemary J. Coombe, Lia Ghilardi, ArnoldJ. Love, Denis McQuail, Mira T. Sundara Rajan, Cris Shore, and AnnabelleSreberny for both the quality and punctuality of their papers. Their expertise hasproved invaluable and I am grateful to them for their willingness to lend it to thisstudy.The study would have not happened at all but for the vision and drive of MadelenaGrossmann of the Cultural Policy and Action Department of the Council ofEurope. Madelena lent the project, myself, and all other members of the projectteam excellent encouragement and support – intellectual, organisational and diplomatic– at all stages of the inquiry. And Danièle Imbert-Michel deserves all of ourthanks for making it possible for us to be in so many different places at the righttimes – a formidable accomplishment.TONY BENNETT,Professor of SociologyDirector of the Pavis Centre for Social and Cultural ResearchThe Open University, UK9