Whose Cosmopolitanism?

Critical Perspectives, Relationalities and Discontents
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-78238-445-8
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 538 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schiller, Nina Glick

Irving, Andrew

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Kultureller Wandel, Kulturkontakt, Akkulturation

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Introduction: What’s In a Word? What’s in a Question?

Andrew Irving and Nina Glick Schiller

PART I: THE QUESTION OF WHOSE COSMOPOLITANISM? PROVOCATIONS AND RESPONSES

Provocations

Chapter 1. Whose Cosmopolitanism? Multiple, Globally Enmeshed and Subaltern

Gyan Prakash

Chapter 2. Whose Cosmopolitanism? Genealogies of Cosmopolitanism

Galin Tihanov

Chapter 3. Whose Cosmopolitanism? And Whose Humanity?

Nina Glick Schiller

Chapter 4. Whose Cosmopolitanism? The Violence of Idealizations and the Ambivalence of Self

Jackie Stacey

Chapter 5. Whose Cosmopolitanism? Postcolonial Criticism and The Realities of Neo-Colonial Power

Robert Spencer

Responses

Chapter 6. The Performativity and Suspension of Disbelief

Jacqueline Rose

Chapter 7. What Do We Do With Cosmopolitanism?

David Harvey

Chapter 8. Cosmopolitan Theory and the Daily Pluralism of Life

Tariq Ramadan

Chapter 9. Chance, Contingency and the Face to Face Encounter

Andrew Irving   

Chapter 10. Cosmopolitanism and Intelligibility

Sivamohan Valluvan

PART II: THE QUESTIONS OF WHERE, WHEN, HOW, AND WHETHER: TOWARDS A PROCESSUAL SITUATED COSMOPOLITANISM

Whose Encounters, Landscapes and Displacements?

Chapter 11. ‘It’s Cool to be Cosmo’: Tibetan Refugees, Indian Hosts, Richard Gere and ‘Crude Cosmopolitanism' in Dharamsala

Atreyee Sen

Chapter 12. Diasporic Cosmopolitanism: Migrants, Sociabilities and City-Making

Nina Glick Schiller

Chapter 13. Freedom and Laughter in an Uncertain World: Language, Expression and Cosmopolitanism Experience

Andrew Irving

Cinema, Literature and the Social Imagination

Chapter 14. Narratives of Exile: Cosmopolitanism beyond the Liberal Imagination

Galin Tihanov 

Chapter 15. The Uneasy Cosmopolitans of Code Unknown

Jackie Stacey 

Chapter 16. Pregnant Possibilities: Cosmopolitanism, Kinship and Reproductive Futurism in Maria Full of Grace and In America

Heather Latimer

Chapter 17. Backstage/Onstage Cosmopolitanism: Jia Zhangke’s The World

Felicia Chan  



Endless War or Domains of Sociability? Conflict, Instabilities and Aspirations

Chapter 18. Politics, Cosmopolitics and Preventive Development at the Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan Border

Madeleine Reeves

Chapter 19. Memory of War and Cosmopolitan Solidarity

Ewa Ochman

Chapter 20. Cosmopolitanism and Conviviality in an Age of Perpetual War

Paul Gilroy

Notes on Contributors

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Irving, Andrew
Andrew Irving is Director of the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology at the University of Manchester. His research areas include sensory perception, time, illness, death, urban anthropology, and experimental methods. Recent publications include Beyond Text: Critical Practices and Sensory Anthropology (2014 Manchester University Press) and “The Suicidal Mind” in Mediating and Remediating Death (2014 Ashgate).

Schiller, Nina Glick
Nina Glick Schiller is Founding Director of the Research Institute for Cosmopolitan Culture, Professor Emeritus of the University of Manchester and the University of New Hampshire. She serves as an Associate of the Max Planck Institutes of Social Anthropology, of Ethnic and Religious Diversity, and of COMPAS, Oxford University. Recent publications include Global Regimes of Mobilities (2012 Routledge), Beyond Methodological Nationalism (2012 Routledge), and Locating Migration (2011 Cornell).

Nina Glick Schiller is Founding Director of the Research Institute for Cosmopolitan Culture, Professor Emeritus of the University of Manchester and the University of New Hampshire. She serves as an Associate of the Max Planck Institutes of Social Anthropology, of Ethnic and Religious Diversity, and of COMPAS, Oxford University. Recent publications include Global Regimes of Mobilities (2012 Routledge), Beyond Methodological Nationalism (2012 Routledge), and Locating Migration (2011 Cornell).