Nationalism, Cosmopolitanism, and Geographical Imaginations

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ID7464248
AuthorsBarney Warf (0000-0002-4681-5286, Professor of geography at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045‐7613; []., corresponding author)
Year2012
Volume102
Issue3
Pages271-292
Publication date2012-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueGeographical Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0016-7428 • E-ISSN: 1931-0846
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1931-0846.2012.00152.x
OpenAlexW2153981034
LanguageEN
Citations received12
References cited49

In this article I set nationalism and cosmopolitanism into sharp contrast with one another as inherently incompatible geographical imaginations. I begin by briefly denaturalizing nationalism and the nation‐state. I then turn to the philosophy and political agenda of cosmopolitanism, an ideology simultaneously very old and new, which offers a more inclusive and empathetic alternative to nationalist xenophobia. In the third section I argue that contemporary globalization has laid the ontological foundations of a cosmopolitan world order. Next, I explicate nationalism's and cosmopolitanism's competing visions of the definition and meaning of "community." I summarize major objections to cosmopolitanism and offer a defense of it. In the following section I focus on the implications of cosmopolitanism for contemporary geography, including relational spatialities of empathy and caring. Finally, I suggest that contemporary globalization is gradually putting into place the legal and institutional apparatus for cosmopolitan global governance and democracy

Aesthetics · Cosmopolitanism · Environmental ethics · Globalization · Ideology · Nation state · Nationalism · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Vision · Xenophobia · Anthropology · Japanese History and Culture · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Philosophy · Urban Planning and Governance

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