| Description |
1 online resource (186 pages) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : united in discontent / Dimitrios Theodossopoulos -- Shifting centres, tense peripheries: Indigenous cosmopolitanisms / Andrew Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart -- Sabili and Indonesian Muslim resistance to cosmopolitanism / C.W. Watson -- The cosmopolitan and the noumenal : a case study of Islamic jihadist night dreams as reported sources of spiritual and political inspiration / Iain Edgar and David Henig -- Intimacies of anti-globalization : imagining unhappy others as oneself in Greece / Elisabeth Kirtsoglou and Dimitrios Theodossopoulos -- Escaping the 'modern' excesses of Japanese life : critical voices on Japanese rural cosmopolitanism / Àngels Trias i Valls -- Two sides of the same coin? World citizenship and local crisis in Argentina / Victoria Goddard -- Hegemonic, subaltern and anthropological cosmopolitics / John Gledhill -- Conclusion : united in discontent / Elisabeth Kirtsoglou. |
| Summary |
Cosmopolitanism is often discussed in a critical and disapproving manner: as a concept complicit with the interests of the powerful, or as a notion related to Western political supremacy, the ills of globalization, inequality, and capitalist economic penetration.. Cosmopolitanism is often discussed in a critical and disapproving manner: as a concept complicit with the interests of the powerful, or as a notion related to Western political supremacy, the ills of globalization, inequality, and capitalist economic penetration. Seen as the moral justification for embracing or tolerating cultural difference, ethnically and socially diverse communities unenthusiastic with change, develop an acknowledgement of their common position vis--vis a western, "universal" political point of view. By means of exploring the idiosyncratic form of political intimacy generated by anti-cosmopolitanism, and assuming an analytical and critical stance towards the concepts of parochialism and localism, this volume examines the political consciousness of such negatively predisposed actors, and it attempts to explain their reservation towards the sincerity of international politics, their reliance on conspiracy theories or nationalist narratives, their introversion. |
| Language |
English. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Cosmopolitanism -- Cross-cultural studies.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture. |
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Cosmopolitanism |
| Genre/Form |
Cross-cultural studies
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| Added Author |
Theodossopoulos, Dimitrios.
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Kirtsoglou, Elisabeth, 1973-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 1845456300 |
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Print version: 9781845456306 |
| ISBN |
9781845459659 (electronic bk.) |
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1845459652 (electronic bk.) |
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9781845456306 (hardback ; alk. paper) |
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1845456300 (hardback ; alk. paper) |
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9780857458094 |
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0857458094 |
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1282628151 |
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9781282628151 |
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9786612628153 |
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6612628154 |
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