Cosmopolitanism in practice / edited by Magdalena Nowicka, Maria Rovisco.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nowicka, Magdalena.

Rovisco, Maria.

Series:

Global connections (Ashgate (Firm))

Global connections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cosmopolitanism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (221 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub., c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The volume provides empirical research to show how people actually embrace cosmopolitan ideas and attitudes. It studies 'cosmopolitanism in practice', looking at the social and institutional environments in which cosmopolitanism shapes everyday life experiences and identities. Contributors to the volume include Ulrich Bech, Stephen Vertovec, Rob Kroes and Natan Sznaider. Their research draws on a variety of intellectual disciplines, international contexts and methodological traditions from a range of local/global sites.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction Making Sense of Cosmopolitanism; Part I Mobilities; 1 The Middle Class Cosmopolitan Journey: The Life Trajectories and Transnational Affiliations of Skilled EU Migrants in Manchester; 2 Ethnic Groups Unbound: A Case Study of the Social Organization of Cosmopolitanism; 3 Looking at the Practice of UN Professionals: Strategies for Managing Differences and the Emergence of a Cosmopolitan Identity; Part II Memories; 4 Cosmopolitan Openings and Closures in Post-Yugoslav Antinationalism

5 Europe's Evolving Public Space: Cosmopolitan Engagements through the Lens of American Mass Culture 6 Cosmopolitanization of Memory: The Politics of Forgiveness and Restitution; Part III Tensions; 7 An Accented Radio: Fostering Cosmopolitanism through Media in Berlin; 8 Cosmopolitanism and Feminism in the Age of the 'War on Terror': A Twenty-first Century Reading of Virginia Woolf's Three Guineas; 9 Cosmopolitan Capital or Multicultural Community? Reflections on the Production and Management of Differential Mobilities in Germany's Capital City

10 Religion and the Challenges of Cosmopolitanism: Young Portuguese Volunteers in Africa Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-317-15907-1

1-315-57442-X

1-317-15906-3

1-281-96880-3

9786611968809

0-7546-8962-X

9781315574424

OCLC:

646790929