Synopses & Reviews
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 CohenPART 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 Bauböck
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