Cultural Encounters in the Age of Globalism

Nicholas Barnett is a Lecturer in Contemporary History and Politics at the University of Salford, UK. He has taught in academia for ten years creating modules on several subjects including cultural encounters, the 1960s, Britain in the twentieth century, the Cold War, dictatorships in the twentieth century, and political protest. His research specialism is the late twentieth century, and he has published several articles on the Cold War, as well as the monograph, Britain’s Cold War (2020).

• 1. Introduction: Broadening the Mind?.- 2. Migration and Encounter.- 3. Tourism as a Cultural Encounter.- 4. Globalising Activism.- 5. Encounters at the International Expositions.- 6. Olympian Encounters at the Summer Games.- 7. Conclusion: An Age of Encounter?.