Conceiving Cosmopolitanism Theory, Context, and Practice

by Vertovec, Steven; Cohen, Robin

• ISBN13: 9780199252282
• ISBN10: 0199252289
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-07-17
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

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.

Author Biography

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

Notes on Contributors	vii
List of Acronyms and Abbreviations	xi
1. Introduction: Conceiving Cosmopolitanism	1	(24)
STEVEN VERTOVEC AND ROBIN COHEN
I. Windows on Cosmopolitanism
2. Political Belonging in a World of Multiple Identities	25	(7)
STUART HALL
3. Middle Eastern Experiences of Cosmopolitanism	32	(10)
SAMI ZUBAIDA
4. Cosmopolitanism and the Social Experience of Cities	42	(6)
RICHARD SENNETT
5. Culture and Political Community: National, Global, and Cosmopolitan	48	(13)
DAVID HELD
II. Theories of Cosmopolitanism
6. The Cosmopolitan Perspective: Sociology in the Second Age of Modernity	61	(25)
ULRICH BECK
7. The Class Consciousness of Frequent Travellers: Towards a Critique of Actually Existing Cosmopolitanism	86	(24)
CRAIG CALHOUN
8. Political Community Beyond the Sovereign State, Supranational Federalism, and Transnational Minorities	110	(27)
RAINER BAUBÖCK
9. Four Cosmopolitanism Moments	137	(28)
ROBERT FINE AND ROBIN COHEN
III. Contexts of Cosmopolitanism
10. Colonial Cosmopolitanism	165	(15)
PETER VAN DER VEER
11. Media Corporatism and Cosmopolitanism	180	(11)
AYSE CAGLAR
12. Both Sides, Now: Culture Contact, Hybridization, and Cosmopolitanism	191	(18)
CHAN KWOK-BUN
13. Cosmopolitanism at the Local Level: The Development of Transnational Neighbourhoods	209	(18)
DANIEL HIEBERT
IV. Practices of Cosmopolitanism
14. Not Universalists, Not Pluralists: The New Cosmopolitans Find Their Own Way	227	(13)
DAVID A. HOLLINGER
15. Interests and Identities in Cosmopolitan Politics	240	(14)
JOHN TOMLINSON
16. Cosmopolitan Harm Conventions	254	(14)
ANDREW LINKLATER
17. Cosmopolitanism and Organized Violence	268	(11)
MARY KALDOR
References	279	(21)
Index	300