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Informationen zum Autor Nina Glick Schiller is Founding Director of the Research Institute for Cosmopolitan Culture, Professor Emeritus of the University of Manchester and the University of New Hampshire. She serves as an Associate of the Max Planck Institutes of Social Anthropology, of Ethnic and Religious Diversity, and of COMPAS, Oxford University. Recent publications include Global Regimes of Mobilities (2012 Routledge), Beyond Methodological Nationalism (2012 Routledge), and Locating Migration (2011 Cornell). Andrew Irving is Director of the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology at the University of Manchester. His research areas include sensory perception, time, illness, death, urban anthropology, and experimental methods. Recent publications include Beyond Text: Critical Practices and Sensory Anthropology (2014 Manchester University Press) and “The Suicidal Mind” in Mediating and Remediating Death (2014 Ashgate). Klappentext The term cosmopolitan is increasingly used within different social, cultural and political settings, including academia, popular media and national politics. However those who invoke the cosmopolitan project rarely ask whose experience, understanding, or vision of cosmopolitanism is being described and for whose purposes? In response, this volume assembles contributors from different disciplines and theoretical backgrounds to examine cosmopolitanism's possibilities, aspirations and applications-as well as its tensions, contradictions, and discontents-so as to offer a critical commentary on the vital but often neglected question: whose cosmopolitanism? The book investigates when, where, and how cosmopolitanism emerges as a contemporary social process, global aspiration or emancipatory political project and asks whether it can serve as a political or methodological framework for action in a world of conflict and difference. Zusammenfassung Whose Cosmopolitanism? examines cosmopolitanism's possibilities! aspirations and applications - as well as its tensions! contradictions! and discontents - from a range of different disciplinary perspectives. The book investigates cosmopolitanism's emergence as a contemporary social process! global aspiration or emancipatory political project... Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: What's In a Word? What's in a Question? Andrew Irving and Nina Glick Schiller PART I: THE QUESTION OF WHOSE COSMOPOLITANISM? PROVOCATIONS AND RESPONSES Provocations Chapter 1. Whose Cosmopolitanism? Multiple, Globally Enmeshed and Subaltern Gyan Prakash Chapter 2. Whose Cosmopolitanism? Genealogies of Cosmopolitanism Galin Tihanov Chapter 3. Whose Cosmopolitanism? And Whose Humanity? Nina Glick Schiller Chapter 4. Whose Cosmopolitanism? The Violence of Idealizations and the Ambivalence of Self Jackie Stacey Chapter 5. Whose Cosmopolitanism? Postcolonial Criticism and The Realities of Neo-Colonial Power Robert Spencer Responses Chapter 6. The Performativity and Suspension of Disbelief Jacqueline Rose Chapter 7. What Do We Do With Cosmopolitanism? David Harvey Chapter 8. Cosmopolitan Theory and the Daily Pluralism of Life Tariq Ramadan Chapter 9. Chance, Contingency and the Face to Face Encounter Andrew Irving Chapter 10. Cosmopolitanism and Intelligibility Sivamohan Valluvan PART II: THE QUESTIONS OF WHERE, WHEN, HOW, AND WHETHER: TOWARDS A PROCESSUAL SITUATED COSMOPOLITANISM Whose Encounters, Landscapes and Displacements? Chapter 11. 'It's Cool to be Cosmo': Tibetan Refugees, Indian Hosts, Richard Gere and 'Crude Cosmopolitanism' in Dharamsala Atreyee Sen Chapter 12. Diaspor...
