United in Discontent : : Local Responses to Cosmopolitanism and Globalization /

United in Discontent : : Local Responses to Cosmopolitanism and Globalization / / ed. by Dimitrios Theodossopoulos, Elisabeth Kirtsoglou.

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Cosmopolitanism is often discussed in a critical and disapproving manner: as a concept complicit with the interests of the powerful, or as a notion related to Western political supremacy, the ills of globalization, inequality, and capitalist economic penetration. Seen as the moral justification for...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Edgar, Iain,
Gledhill, John,
Goddard, Victoria,
Henig, David,
Kirtsoglou, Elisabeth,
Stewart, Pamela J.,
Strathern, Andrew,
Theodossopoulos, Dimitrios,
Trias i Valls, Àngels,
Watson, C. W.,
HerausgeberIn:
Kirtsoglou, Elisabeth,
Theodossopoulos, Dimitrios,
Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2009]
©2010
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (194 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Preface
  • 1 Introduction: United in Discontent
  • 2 Shifting Centres, Tense Peripheries: Indigenous Cosmopolitanisms
  • 3 Sabili and Indonesian Muslim Resistance to Cosmopolitanism
  • 4 The Cosmopolitan and the Noumenal: A Case Study of Islamic Jihadist Night Dreams as Reported Sources of Spiritual and Political Inspiration
  • 5 Intimacies of Anti-globalization: Imagining Unhappy Others as Oneself in Greece
  • 6 Escaping the ‘Modern’ Excesses of Japanese Life: Critical Voices on Japanese Rural Cosmopolitanism
  • 7 Two Sides of the Same Coin? World Citizenship and Local Crisis in Argentina
  • 8 Hegemonic, Subaltern and Anthropological Cosmopolitics
  • 9 Conclusion: United in Discontent
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index

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