Cosmopolitanism (A Public Culture book) - Tapa blanda

"[T]he contributors provide a provocation, challenging scholars to integrate cosmopolitanism into social theory and critical practice." --Stephen William Foster, "American Ethnologist" "[I]mpressive. All the chapters are interesting and provocative on their own terms and geographers can learn much from it. . . ." --Tim Cresswell," Gender, Place, and Culture" "[W]ith certain cosmopolitan expectations, one should be able to find much of theoretical, empirical, and methodological value." --Sherwin Mendoza, "Politics and Culture" "[I]nteresting. . . . [D]azzling. . . . [I]nsightful. . . ." " " --Bruce Robbins, "The Journal of Asian Studies" "[E]xciting. . . . [B]rilliant clarity. . . ." " " --Eric Gable, "Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History"

As the final installment of Public Culture's Millennial Quartet, Cosmopolitanism assesses the pasts and possible futures of cosmopolitanism-or ways of thinking, feeling, and acting beyond one's particular society. With contributions from distinguished scholars in disciplines such as literary studies, art history, South Asian studies, and anthropology, this volume recenters the history and theory of translocal political aspirations and cultural ideas from the usual Western vantage point to areas outside Europe, such as South Asia, China, and Africa. By examining new archives, proposing new theoretical formulations, and suggesting new possibilities of political practice, the contributors critically probe the concept of cosmopolitanism. On the one hand, cosmopolitanism may be taken to promise a form of supraregional political solidarity, but on the other, these essays argue, it may erode precisely those intimate cultural differences that derive their meaning from particular places and traditions. Given that most cosmopolitan political formations-from the Roman empire and European imperialism to contemporary globalization-have been coercive and unequal, can there be a noncoercive and egalitarian cosmopolitan politics? Finally, the volume asks whether cosmopolitanism can promise any universalism that is not the unwarranted generalization of some Western particular.Contributors. Ackbar Abbas, Arjun Appadurai, Homi K. Bhabha, T. K. Biaya, Carol A. Breckenridge, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Ousame Ndiaye Dago, Mamadou Diouf, Wu Hung, Walter D. Mignolo, Sheldon Pollock, Steven Randall