Kafe Antzokia : The Global meets the Local in Basque Cultural Politics

Abstract

By means of a case analysis, the project supporting the genesis and management of a contemporary cultural espace –Kafe Antzokia, in Bilbao–, the article tries to emphasize the connection between the local culture and the very perception that in these times this culture is practiced in a highly globalized world. Changes that the social agents involved perceive in the idea of ‘the local’ and in other issues which in the Basque Country were engaged to this idea (the Basque language, the own territory, the nation, the communities that live in it...), are analysed according to their perception of culture, of its domain of reference and its tensions (local/global, centre/periphery, cosmopolitism, cultural hybridization...) and of its contemporary conditions of possibility.

Keywords

• local/global
• Basque culture
• cosmopolitism
• hybridization