Cosmopolitanism in Practice

by Rovisco,Maria; Nowicka,Magdalen

• ISBN13: 9780754670490
• ISBN10: 075467049X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-01-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Who is cosmopolitan? How do we define who is cosmopolitan?Much of the literature on cosmopolitanism to date has focused on its theoretical dimensions, but in this volume the contributors provide empirical research to show how people actually embrace cosmopolitan ideas and attitudes.The volume studies 'cosmopolitanism in practice', looking at the social and institutional environments in which cosmopolitanism shapes everyday life experiences and identities. It looks at: concrete settings in which individuals display cosmopolitan sensibilities and dispositions; how cosmopolitan ideas and narratives compete with meta-narratives such as nationalism, multiculturalism and religion; and how cosmopolitan ideas are employed in situations of conflict.Contributors to the volume include Ulrich Bech, Stephen Vertovec, Rob Kroes and Natan Sznaider. Their research draws on a variety of intellectual disciplines, international contexts and methodological traditions from a range of local/global sites.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Introduction: making sense of cosmopolitanism

Mobilities

The middle class cosmopolitan journey: the life trajectories and transnational affiliations of skilled EU migrants in Manchester

Ethnic groups unbound: a case study of the social organization of cosmopolitanism

Looking at the practice of UN professionals: strategies for managing differences and the emergence of a cosmopolitan identity

Memories

Cosmopolitan openings and closures in post-Yugoslav antinationalism

Europe's evolving public space: cosmopolitan engagements through the lens of American mass culture

Cosmopolitanization of memory: the politics of forgiveness and restitution

Tensions

An accented radio: fostering cosmopolitanism through media in Berlin

Cosmopolitanism and feminism in the age of the 'war on terror': a 21st century reading of Virginia Woolf's Three Guineas

Cosmopolitan capital or multicultural community? Reflections on the production and management of differential mobilities in Germany's capital city

Religion and the challenges of cosmopolitanism: young Portuguese volunteers in Africa

Index

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