Whose cosmopolitanism?
Subtitle: critical perspectives, relationalities and discontents
By: edited by Nina Glick Schiller and Andrew Irving
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9781782384458; 9781782384465
Subjects: Cosmopolitanism
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.