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Whose cosmopolitanism? [electronic resource] : critical perspectives, relationalities and discontents / edited by Nina Glick Schiller and andrew Irving.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Berghahn Books, [2015]Description: 1 online resource (263 p.)ISBN:
  • 9781782384465
  • 1782384464
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Whose Cosmopolitanism? : Critical Perspectives, Relationalities and DiscontentsDDC classification:
  • 306 23
LOC classification:
  • JZ1308 .W48 2015
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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 Cosmpolitanism? 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 CosmopolitanismChapter 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 MakingChapter 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 AspirationsChapter 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
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.
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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 Cosmpolitanism? 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 CosmopolitanismChapter 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 MakingChapter 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 AspirationsChapter 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

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.

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