Cosmopolitan Borders

Informationen zum Autor Chris Rumford is Professor of Political Sociology and Global Politics at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. He is the author of The Globalization of Strangeness, Cricket and Globalization (co-edited with Steve Wagg), Cosmopolitan Spaces and Rethinking Europe (with Gerard Delanty). Klappentext Cosmopolitan Borders makes the case for processes of bordering being better understood through the lens of cosmopolitanism. Borders are 'cosmopolitan workshops' where 'cultural encounters of a cosmopolitan kind' take place and where entrepreneurial cosmopolitans advance new forms of sociality in the face of 'global closure'. Zusammenfassung Cosmopolitan Borders makes the case for processes of bordering being better understood through the lens of cosmopolitanism. Borders are 'cosmopolitan workshops' where 'cultural encounters of a cosmopolitan kind' take place and where entrepreneurial cosmopolitans advance new forms of sociality in the face of 'global closure'. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction 2. Citizen Vernacular: the Case of Borderwork 3. 'Seeing Like a Border': Towards Multiperspectivalim 4. Fixity/Unfixity 5. Connectivites: Monumentalizing Borders 6. Concluding Comments

Product details

• Authors: C Rumford, C. Rumford, Chris Rumford
• Assisted by: M. Geiger (Editor), Martin Geiger (Editor)
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.05.2014
• EAN: 9781137351395
• ISBN: 978-1-137-35139-5
• No. of pages: 116
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 225 mm x 16 mm
• Series: Mobility & Politics; Mobility & Politics; Mobility and Politics
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Migration, C, Sociology, Welfare State, Political Science, Political Sociology, Political Theory, Welfare, Politics & government, Political science & theory, Migration, immigration & emigration, Sociology, general, Emigration and immigration, Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Politics of the Welfare State, Human Migration, counter;entrepreneur;lens