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Book Review: Survival for a small planet: the sustainability agenda

South Africa. He pursues a theme in Habermass account ofpublic communication in which 'the vitality of a democratic public sphere depends on a pluralistic and associational culture' (p. 169). In contrast to the EU, political restructuring in South Africa has been marked by understandings of democracy and development that have infused policy with values of participation, nation-building and cultural diversity. Evidently, a convergence of scale and the legacy of its recent political formation makes South Africa a suitably comparative case study of the relationships between media, democracy and the public sphere. Unlike the EU, the national scale continues to contain the effective exercise of citizenship, but it 'also indicates the extent to which the politics of media citizenship involves the articulation of interests embedded at spatial scales that flow through, around and under the national scale' (p. 195). Like the EU, the South African example remains a paradox. Democratization in South Africa has been shaped by 'a tension between the consolidation of the bureaucratic representative practices ofliberal democratic institutions on the one hand, and the continuing significance of long-established traditions of mass participation and popular democracy on the other' (p. 176). In Culture and democracy, Barnett provides from the vantage point ofgeography a critical intervention in current debates around the time and space coordinates that characterize the influences new media technologies have on public life. The fact of the 'public' being a represented entity is central to those influences, which Barnett interrogates intricately. His book is not a 'first-year' read by any stretch of the imagination, but is addressed primarily to students, academics and specialists whose engagement in matters of media policy exceeds (without excluding) normative questions. I can imagine the book finding a wide academic audience, but, to delimit this somewhat, for students reading in the fields of Cultural and Media Studies, Politics, Development Studies, and (of course) Geography, the book addresses conceptions central to their disciplines.