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 A rethinking of popular political movements, this book looks at new, emerging, mass visions and analyses their impact and potential in new ways. Zusammenfassung Examination of the changing nature of community! looking at mobile subjects such as migrants and business travellers.

Product details

• Authors: Nigel Rapport, Vered Rapport Amit, Vered Amit
• Publisher: Pluto
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 14.06.2012
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education
• EAN: 9780745329048
• ISBN: 978-0-7453-2904-8
• Pages: 240
• Series: Anthropology, Culture and Society; Anthropology, Culture and Soci; Anthropology, Culture and Society; Anthropology, Culture and Soci
• Subjects: Globalisierung, Migration, Einwanderung und Auswanderung, Cultural Studies, Politik und Staat, George Steiner, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Globalization, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, Archaeology / Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries, Social Mobility, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Multiplicity, Transnationalism, 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, universality, books about cosmopolitanism, nation state and nationalism, social disjuncture, concept of polis, multiculturalism in the UK