Introduction, Liana Giorgi and Monica Sassatelli 1. Urban Festivals and the Cultural Public Sphere: Cosmopolitanism between Ethics and Aesthetics, Monica Sassatelli 2. Between Tradition, Vision and Imagination: The Public Sphere of Literature Festivals, Liana Giorgi 3. Art Biennales and Cities as Platforms for Global Dialogue, Nikos Papastergiadis and Meredith Martin 4. Festivals and the Geography of Culture: African Cinema in the "World Space" of its Public, Jim English 5. The Cultural Public Sphere - Critical Measure of Public Culture?, Jim McGuigan 6. Festivals: Local and Global. Critical Interventions and the Cultural Public Sphere, Jean-Luis Fabiani 7. International Festivals in a Small Country: Rites of Recognition and Cosmopolitanism, Motti Regev 8. Festivalization, Cosmopolitanism and European Culture: On the Socio-cultural Significance of Mega-events, Maurice Roche 9. Festival Spaces, Green Sensibilities and Youth Culture, Joanne Cummings, Ian Woodward and Andy Bennett 10. Cannes: a French International Festival, Jerome Segal and Christine Blumauer 11. 'Space is the Place'. The Global Localities of Sonar and Womad Music Festivals, Jasper Chalcraft and Paolo Magaudda. Conclusion, Gerard Delanty