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Local Cosmopolitanism - Imagining and (Re-)Making Privileged Places

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This book offers a unique perspective on cosmopolitanism, examining the ways it is constructed and reconstructed on the small scale in an ongoing process of matching the local with the global, a process entailing mutual transformation. Based on a wide range of literatures and a series of case studies, it analyzes the different versions and functions of cosmopolitanism and points to the need to critically re-examine current conceptions of globalization.
The book first illustrates the interplay between networks and narratives in the construction of cosmopolitan communities in three specific cities: Trieste, Odessa and Tbilisi. Each has a past more cosmopolitan than the present and each uses that cosmopolitan past to guide them towards the future.
Next, the book focuses on narrative dynamics by isolating several discourses on the cosmopolitan place and figure in European cultural history. It then goes on to detail the internal representations and local functions of larger wholes in smaller communities, shedding a new light on issues of inter- disciplinary interest: self- governance, participation, local knowledge, social memory, scale, planning and development.
Of interest to political scientists, anthropologists, economists, geographers and philosophers, this book offers an insightful contribution to theories of globalization and global/ local interaction, bringing the local discursive mechanics into sharper focus and also emphasizing the semi- autonomous character of narrative constructions of self and community in a larger world.

List of contents

I. Intro: II. A broader angle 1. Cosmopolitanism in the light of philosophical tradition 2. Cosmopolitanism and networks: Odessa, Trieste, Tbilisi 3. Cosmopolitan narratives: cultural history of cosmopolitan tropes & figures III. The small worlds of cosmopolitanism 4. Local constructions & functions of cosmopolitanism: the Sulina stories [intro] 5. Narratives of place and self 6. Identities on the move 7.Narratives, networks and policies IV. Small and large 8. Local cosmopolitanism in Sulina revisited 9. Local cosmopolitanism and theories of globalization

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This book offers a unique perspective on cosmopolitanism, examining  the ways it is constructed and reconstructed on the small scale in an ongoing process of matching the local with the global, a process entailing mutual transformation. Based on a wide range of literatures and a series of case studies, it analyzes the different versions and functions of cosmopolitanism and points to the need to critically re-examine current conceptions of globalization.
The book first illustrates the interplay between networks and narratives in the construction of cosmopolitan communities in three specific cities: Trieste, Odessa and Tbilisi. Each has a past more cosmopolitan than the present and each uses that cosmopolitan past to guide them towards the future.
Next, the book focuses on narrative dynamics by isolating several discourses on the cosmopolitan place and figure in European cultural history. It then goes on to detail the internal representations and local functions of larger wholes in smaller communities, shedding a new light on issues of inter- disciplinary interest: self- governance, participation, local knowledge, social memory, scale, planning and development.
Of interest to political scientists, anthropologists, economists, geographers and philosophers, this book offers an insightful contribution to theories of globalization and global/ local interaction, bringing the local discursive mechanics into sharper focus and also emphasizing the semi- autonomous character of narrative constructions of self and community in a larger world.

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Authors Kristof Van Assche, Petru¿a Teamp¿u, Petru?a Teampau, Petru¿a Teampau, Petrua Teampau, Petruta Teampau, Petruța Teampău, Kristo Van Assche, Kristof Van Assche
Publisher Springer, Berlin
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 01.01.2015
 
EAN 9783319190297
ISBN 978-3-31-919029-7
No. of pages 131
Dimensions 152 mm x 233 mm x 5 mm
Weight 250 g
Illustrations VI, 131 p. 12 illus., 7 illus. in color.
Series SpringerBriefs in Geography
SpringerBriefs in Geography
Subjects Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography

C, Urban Planning, Earth and Environmental Science, Regional & area planning, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Regional planning, Human Geography, Development Economics, Development economics & emerging economies

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