Whose cosmopolitanism? : critical perspectives, relationalities and discontents /
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...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Berghahn Books,
2015.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Item Description: | Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 253 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781782384465 1782384464 |