Community, Cosmopolitanism and the Problem of Human Commonality

Informationen zum Autor Vered Amit is Professor of Anthropology at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. Her recent publications include, as co-author with Nigel Rapport, Community, Cosmopolitanism and the Problem of Human Commonality (Pluto, 2012), and as editor Thinking through Sociality: An Anthropological Interrogation of Key Concepts (2015). Nigel Rapport is Professor of Anthropological and Philosophical Studies at the University of St Andrews. He is author of Community, Cosmopolitanism and the Problem of Human Commonality (Pluto, 2012) and The Trouble with Community: Anthropological Reflections on Movement, Identity and Collectivity (Pluto, 2002). Klappentext Do notions of community remain central to our sense of who we are, or can we see beyond community closures to a human whole? This volume explores the nature of contemporary sociality. It focuses on the ethical, organisational and emotional claims and opportunities sought or fashioned for mobilising and evading social collectivities in a world of mobile subjects. Vered Amit and Nigel Rapport present an examination of the tensions and interactions between everyday forms of fluid fellowship, culturally normative claims to identity, and opportunities for realising a universal humanity. Zusammenfassung Examination of the changing nature of community! looking at mobile subjects such as migrants and business travellers.

Product details

• Authors: Vered Amit, Vered Rapport Amit, Nigel Rapport
• Publisher: Pluto
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.06.2012
• EAN: 9780745329031
• ISBN: 978-0-7453-2903-1
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Anthropology, Culture and Society; Anthropology, Culture and Soci; Anthropology, Culture and Society
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Political science & theory, Social discrimination & inequality, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Social and cultural anthropology, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, Political science and theory, Racism and racial discrimination / Anti-racism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / Asian Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General