Whose Cosmopolitanism

Critical Perspectives, Relationalities and Discontents

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ID19944733
EditorsNina Glick Schiller, Andrew Irving
Year2014
Pages253
Publication date2014-10-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueWhose cosmopolitanism? (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherBerghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.3167/9781782384458
OpenAlexW4396985952
Open LibraryOL31022457M
ISBN9781782384458
LanguageEN
Citations received12

The term cosmopolitan is increasingly used within different social, cultural and political settings, including academia, popular media and national politics. However those who invoke the cosmopolitan project rarely ask whose experience, understanding, or vision of cosmopolitanism is being described and for whose purposes? In response, this volume assembles contributors from different disciplines and theoretical backgrounds to examine cosmopolitanism’s possibilities, aspirations and applications—as well as its tensions, contradictions, and discontents—so as to offer a critical commentary on the vital but often neglected question: whose cosmopolitanism? The book investigates when, where, and how cosmopolitanism emerges as a contemporary social process, global aspiration or emancipatory political project and asks whether it can serve as a political or methodological framework for action in a world of conflict and difference

Cosmopolitanism · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Elite Sociology and Global Capitalism · Law · Cultural · Globalization · Human Geography · Internationalism · Physical & earth sciences -> geography -> human/cultural geography · Social sciences -> anthropology -> cultural anthropology · Social sciences -> political science -> globalization · Weltbürgertum

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