| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 219 pages). |
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text file |
| Series |
Anthropology, culture, and society
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Anthropology, culture, and society.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
PART I: Community and disjunction: the creativity and uncertainty of everyday engagement. Community as 'Good to Think With': The Productiveness of Strategic Ambiguities -- Consociation and Communitas: The Ambiguous Charms of the Quotidian -- Disjuncture as 'Good to Think With' -- Mobility and Cosmopolitanism: Frustrated Aspirations towards disjuncture. PART II: Cosmopolitanism: actors, relations and institutions beyond the communitarian. The Space of Cosmopolitanism, and the Cosmopolitan Subject -- Cosmopolitan Living: People of the Air and Global Guests -- Cosmopolitan Learning: Diffusion, Openness and Irony -- Cosmopolitan Planning: Anyone, Society and Community -- Epilogue: Cosmopolitanism and Culture. PART III: Dialogue. Amit Responds to Rapport: When cosmopolitan rights are not enough -- Rapport Responds to Amit: On the analytical need to deconstruct "community." |
| Summary |
Examination of the changing nature of community, looking at mobile subjects such as migrants and business travellers. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Communities -- Sociological aspects.
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Communities. |
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Globalization -- Sociological aspects.
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Globalization -- Sociological aspects. |
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Globalization. |
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Social integration -- Sociological aspects.
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Social integration. |
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Cosmopolitanism -- Sociological aspects.
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Cosmopolitanism. |
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Identity (Philosophical concept)
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Identity (Philosophical concept) |
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Group identity -- Sociological aspects.
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Group identity. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Rapport, Nigel, 1956-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9780745329031 |
| ISBN |
9781849647090 (electronic book) |
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1849647097 (electronic book) |
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