Whose Cosmopolitanism? : : Critical Perspectives, Relationalities and Discontents /

Whose Cosmopolitanism? : : Critical Perspectives, Relationalities and Discontents / / ed. by Nina Glick Schiller, Andrew Irving.

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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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
MitwirkendeR:
Chan, Felicia,
Gilroy, Paul,
Harvey, David,
Irving, Andrew,
Latimer, Heather,
Ochman, Ewa,
Prakash, Gyan,
Ramadan, Tariq,
Reeves, Madeleine,
Rose, Jacqueline,
Schiller, Nina Glick,
Sen, Atreyee,
Spencer, Robert,
Stacey, Jackie,
Tihanov, Galin,
Valluvan, Sivamohan,
HerausgeberIn:
Irving, Andrew,
Schiller, Nina Glick,
Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2014]
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (264 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction What’s in a Word? What’s in a Question?
  • Part I. The Question of ‘Whose Cosmopolitanism?’ Provocations and Responses
  • Provocations
  • Chapter 1 Whose Cosmopolitanism? Multiple, Globally Enmeshed and Subaltern
  • Chapter 2 Whose Cosmopolitanism? Genealogies of Cosmopolitanism
  • Chapter 3 Whose Cosmopolitanism? And Whose Humanity?
  • Chapter 4 Whose Cosmopolitanism? The Violence of Idealizations and the Ambivalence of Self
  • Chapter 5 Whose Cosmopolitanism? Postcolonial Criticism and the Realities of Neocolonial Power
  • Responses
  • Chapter 6 Wounded Cosmopolitanism
  • Chapter 7 What Do We Do with Cosmopolitanism?
  • Chapter 8 Cosmopolitan Theory and the Daily Pluralism of Life
  • Chapter 9 Chance, Contingency and the Face-to-Face Encounter
  • Chapter 10 Cosmopolitanism and Intelligibility
  • Part II The Questions of Where, When, How and Whether Towards a Processual Situated Cosmopolitanism
  • Encounters, Landscapes and Displacements
  • Chapter 11 ‘It’s Cool to Be Cosmo’ Tibetan Refugees, Indian Hosts, Richard Gere and ‘Crude Cosmopolitanism’ in Dharamsala
  • Chapter 12 Diasporic Cosmopolitanism Migrants, Sociabilities and City Making
  • Chapter 13 Freedom and Laughter in an Uncertain World Language, Expression and Cosmopolitan Experience
  • Cinema, Literature and the Social Imagination
  • Chapter 14 Narratives of Exile Cosmopolitanism beyond the Liberal Imagination
  • Chapter 15 The Uneasy Cosmopolitans of Code Unknown
  • Chapter 16 Pregnant Possibilities Cosmopolitanism, Kinship and Reproductive Futurism in Maria Full of Grace and In America
  • Chapter 17 Backstage/Onstage Cosmopolitanism Jia Zhangke’s The World
  • Endless War or Domains of Sociability? Conflict, Instabilities and Aspirations
  • Chapter 18 Politics, Cosmopolitics and Preventive Development at the Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan Border
  • Chapter 19 Memory of War and Cosmopolitan Solidarity
  • Chapter 20 Cosmopolitanism and Conviviality in an Age of Perpetual War
  • Contributors
  • Index

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