Books, Bodies and Bronzes - Comparing Sites of Global Citizenship Creation

List of contents

1. Books, bodies, and bronzes: comparing sites of global citizenship creation 2. Vogue and the possibility of cosmopolitics: race, health and cosmopolitan engagement in the global beauty industry 3. Shifting tides of world-making in the UNESCO World Heritage Convention: cosmopolitanisms colliding 4. Cosmopolitan theology: Fethullah Gülen and the making of a ‘Golden Generation’ 5. Globalizing forms of elite sociability: varieties of cosmopolitanism in Paris social clubs 6. Pirate cosmopolitics and the transnational consciousness of the entertainment industry 7. Between global citizenship and Qatarization: negotiating Qatar’s new knowledge economy within American branch campuses 8. Tuning in or turning off: performing emotion and building cosmopolitan solidarity in international music competitions

About the author

Peggy Levitt is Professor of Sociology at Wellesley College, Massachusetts, USA, and the Co-Director of The Transnational Studies Initiative at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
Pál Nyíri is Professor of Global History from an Anthropological Perspective at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Product details

• Authors: Peggy Nyiri Levitt
• Assisted by: Peggy Levitt (Editor), Levitt Peggy (Editor), Pál Nyíri (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.05.2015
• EAN: 9781138888029
• ISBN: 978-1-138-88802-9
• No. of pages: 152
• Series: Ethnic and Racial Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, Social issues & processes, Social and ethical issues, Civil rights & citizenship, Civics and citizenship