Whose cosmopolitanism? : critical perspectives, relationalities and discontents / edited by Nina Glick Schiller and Andrew Irving ; contributors, Felicia Chan [and fifteen others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schiller, Nina Glick, editor.

Irving, Andrew, editor.

Chan, Felicia, 1972- contributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cosmopolitanism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 253 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn, 2015.

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.

Contents:

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 ll. 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781782384465

1782384464

OCLC:

891445846

Publisher Number:

40024074494