Synopses & Reviews
Understanding the ancient and long sidelined concept of cosmopolitanism has suddenly found a fresh impetus and urgency. Globalization, international migration, multiculturalism and global social movements, as well as atrocities committed by those with narrow religious and ethnic identities, have led to reposing of two basic cosmopolitan questions: Can we ever live peacefully with one another? What do we share, collectively, as human beings? The term cosmopolitanism has attracted many understandings and uses over the years. Covering the global, national, social and personal levels of analysis, the authors consider the multiple meanings of the term in the past and in the present and develop new ways of conceiving cosmopolitanism. Through challenging old assumptions and advancing new analytical frameworks, the collection provides a full and representative set of views on the nature, definition and prospects of cosmopolitanism. Written by eminent scholars and publicly recognised intellectuals from a variety of cultural backgrounds, this book is the most comprehensive account of the theory and practice of cosmopolitanism yet attempted.
Synopsis
This collection is a detailed exploration of cosmopolitanism written by eminent scholars and public intellectuals from many disciplines and cultural backgrounds. By challenging old assumptions and advancing new analytical frameworks, it provides a full and representative set of views on the nature, definition and prospects of cosmopolitanism as well as clarification and explication of different cosmopolitan traditions.
About the Author
Steven Vertovec is Professor of Transnational Anthropology at the University of Oxford and Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin
Robin Cohen is Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick and currently Dean of Humanities at the University of Cape Town
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: conceiving cosmopolitanism, Steven Vertovec and Robin Cohen
PART 1 WINDOWS ON COSMOPOLITANISM
2. Political belonging in a world of multiple identities, Stuart Hall
3. Middle Eastern experiences of cosmopolitanism, Sami Zubaida
4. Cosmopolitanism and the social experience of cities, Richard Sennett
5. Building cosmopolitanism for another age, David Held
PART 2 THEORIES OF COSMOPOLITANISM
6. The cosmopolitan perspective: sociology in the second age of modernity, Ulrich Beck
7. The class consciousness of frequent travellers: towards a critique of actually existing cosmopolitanism, Craig Calhoun
8. Political community beyond the sovereign state, supranational federalism and transnational minorities, Rainer Baubock
9. Four cosmopolitanism moments, Robert Fine and Robin Cohen
PART 3 CONTEXTS OF COSMOPOLITANISM
10. Colonial cosmopolitanism, Peter Van der Veer
11. Media corporatism and cosmopolitanism, Ayse Caglar
12. Both sides now: culture contact, hybridisation and cosmopolitanism, Chan Kwok Bun
13. Cosmopolitanism at the local level: the development of transnational neighbourhoods, Daniel Hiebert
PART 4 PRACTICES OF COSMOPOLITANISM
14. Not universalists, not pluralists: the new cosmopolitans find their own way, David A. Hollinger
15. Interests and identities in cosmopolitan politics, John Tomlinson
16. Cosmopolitan harm conventions, Andrew Linklater
17. Cosmopolitanism and organised violence, Mary Kaldor