Cosmopolitanism and Difference
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4493689 |
|---|---|
| Authors | O Rose, S O Rose (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 67 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 239-244 |
| Publication date | 2009-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History Workshop Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1363-3554 • E-ISSN: 1477-4569 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/hwj/dbn074 |
| OpenAlex | W2145074106 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 5 |
‘Cosmopolitanism’, a pliable, interdisciplinary and widely debated concept, seems to be everywhere in academic discourse. Ulf Hannerz, in a much cited essay, defines it as ‘an intellectual and aesthetic stance of openness toward divergent cultural experiences, a search for contrasts rather than uniformity’, which implies a ‘willingness to become involved with the Other’.1 In her new book, Mica Nava makes innovative use of the concept, proposing to consider it as a ‘structure of feeling’ (emphasis in the original) that varies with place and time. In contrast to Hannerz's focus on the intellectual and aesthetic, Nava seeks to highlight cosmopolitanism's ‘vernacular, everyday’ expressions in domestic settings, especially in London (p. 3). She is as interested in cosmopolitanism's emotive elements as its cultural resonances. One of her aims is to ‘trace its development from an oppositional culture at the beginning of the twentieth century to the cultural mainstream today’ (pp. 3–4). Visceral Cosmopolitanism provocatively explores why certain people are attracted to other people who are perceived and defined as different. In particular, Nava is interested in why English women seem to be more accepting of difference than men and less likely to deploy racial stereotypes. While acknowledging the persistence of racism, Nava wants to understand anti-racism and to explain how some people, especially some women, have resisted and rejected racist attitudes.
Aesthetics · Art · Cosmopolitanism · Emotive · Literature · Mainstream · Openness to experience · Political science · Politics · Racism · Sociology · Vernacular · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Law · Psychology · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Social Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |