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Informationen zum Autor Vered Amit is Professor of Anthropology at Concordia University (Canada). She is the author or editor of 13 books including most recently, Thinking through Sociality: An Anthropological Interrogation of Key Concepts . Most of her research projects have included an interrogation of various forms of spatial mobility. Pauline Gardiner Barber is Professor of Anthropology at Dalhousie University. Her research focuses upon how global migration is reshaping class and gender relations in the Philippines. In addition to edited volumes, recent articles appear in Dialectical Anthropology , Focaal , Third World Quarterly, and Anthropologica . She is co-editor of the Routledge series Gender in a Global Local World Klappentext The distinction between mundane practice and/or competences on the one hand and a form of consciousness or moral aspiration on the other hand, which recurs in scholarly discussions of cosmopolitanism is rendered ambiguous when applied to actual cases, 'on the ground'. This book was originally published as a special issue of Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power . Zusammenfassung The distinction between mundane practice and/or competences on the one hand and a form of consciousness or moral aspiration on the other hand, which recurs in scholarly discussions of cosmopolitanism is rendered ambiguous when applied to actual cases, ‘on the ground’. This book was originally published as a special issue of Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Mobility and cosmopolitanism: complicating the interaction between aspiration and practice 2. Circumscribed cosmopolitanism: travel aspirations and experiences 3. The dialectics of urban cosmopolitanism: between tolerance and intolerance in cities of strangers 4. Micro-cosmopolitanisms at the urban scale 5. ‘Like a foreigner in my own homeland’: writing the dilemmas of return in theVietnamese American diaspora 6. Cultivating the cosmopolitan child in Silicon Valley ...
