Cosmopolitan Moment, Cosmopolitan Method

In conversation, and in the company of a new generation of scholars working in the field, Nigel Rapport and Huon Wardle re-explore the terrain and meaning of cosmopolitan studies now.

List of contents

1. What does a cosmopolitan anthropology hope to know, and how? An introduction
Huon Wardle and Nigel Rapport
Part I
2. Trembling Moments: Encountering the other (self) at the pier of Lampedusa
Alessandro Corso
3. Being Methodologically Cosmopolitan: On uncertainty, capacities and the stories that are still to be told
Simone Toji
Part II
4. Cosmopolitanism as an empirically grounded framework in urban ethnography
Silvia Binenti
5. Caliban's Return: Afro-Cuban Cosmopolitics Between Politesse and Multiculturalism
Pablo D. Herrera Veitia

6.
Seamus Montgomery
7. Rastafari Cosmopolitics: Reflections on an Ethnography of spiritual repatriation and the state of Caribbeanist anthropology
Shelene Gomes
Part IV
8. Interlocutors and anthropologist in and out of cosmopolitanism
Narmala Halstead
9. Social deeds, building, and the cosmopolitan moment: An ethnographic view on affective labour in late-socialist Poland
Tomasz Rakowski
Part V
10. We-ness: The universal nature of human sociation and its ethical recognition
Nigel Rapport
11. On the Structure of Cosmopolitan Encounters
Huon Wardle
12. Afterword
Nigel Rapport and Huon Wardle

About the author

Nigel Rapport is Emeritus Professor of Anthropological and Philosophical Studies at the University of St Andrews, UK, and Founding Director of the St Andrews Centre for Cosmopolitan Studies.
Huon Wardle is Senior Lecturer, former Director of the Centre for Cosmopolitan Studies, and Editor of the Yearbook in Cosmopolitan Studies at the University of St Andrews, UK.

Summary

In conversation, and in the company of a new generation of scholars working in the field, Nigel Rapport and Huon Wardle re-explore the terrain and meaning of cosmopolitan studies now.

Product details

• Authors: Nigel (University of St Andrews Rapport
• Assisted by: Nigel Rapport (Editor), Rapport Nigel (Editor), Huon Wardle (Editor), Wardle Huon (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.11.2023
• EAN: 9781032209630
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3220963-0
• No. of pages: 198
• Series: Routledge Studies in Anthropology
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, Social Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Society & culture: general, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Social Theory, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology, Society and culture: general, Human Geography