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Fourth volume of the Millennial Quartet.
List of contents
Cosmopolitanisms / Sheldon Pollock, Homi K. Bhabha, Carol A. Breckenridge, and Dipesh Chakrabarty 1
Cosmopolitanism and Vernacular in History / Sheldon Pollock 15
Spectral Housing and Urban Cleansing: Notes on Millennial Mumbai / Arjun Appadurai 54
Universalism and Belonging in the Logic of Capital / Dipesh Chakrabarty 82
The Senegalese Murid Trade Diaspora and the Making of a Vernacular Cosmopolitanism / Mamadou Diouf 111
"Crushing the Pistachio": Eroticism in Senegal and the Art of Ousmane Ndiaye Dago / T. K. Biaya 138
The Many Faces of Cosmo-polis: Border Thinking and Critical Cosmopolitanism / Walter D. Mignolo 157
Zhang Dali's
Dialogue: Conversations with a City / Wu Hung 189
Cosmopolitan De-scriptions: Shanghai and Hong Kong / Ackbar Abbas 209
Contributors 229
Index 233
About the author
Carol A. Breckenridge teaches at the in the department of South Asian languages and civilizations at the University of Chicago and is the founding editor of Public Culture.
Sheldon Pollock is George V. Bobrinskoy Professor of Sanskrit and Indic Studies at the University of Chicago.
Homi K. Bhabha is Professor of English and African-American Studies at Harvard University.
Dipesh Chakrabarty teaches in the departments of history and South Asian languages and civilizations at the University of Chicago.
Sheldon Pollock is the The William B. Ransford Professor of Sanskrit and
Indian Studies in the Department of Middle East and Asian Languages and
Cultures at Columbia University. He is the author of
The language of the gods in the world of men : Sanskrit,
culture, and power in premodern India (2006) and editor of a number
of books, including LITERARY CULTURES IN HISTORY: RECONSTRUCTIONS
FROM SOUTH ASIA (2003) and (w/Homi Bhabha, Carol Breckenridge, and
Dipesh Chakrabarty) COSMOPOLITANISM (Duke, 2002).
Summary
This title addresses the question of whether cosmopolitanism - ways of thinking, feeling, and acting beyond one's particular society - is simply the universalism of a Western particular.
