ISBN:
9780857458094
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (194 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version United In Discontent : Local Responses to Cosmopolitanism and Globalization
DDC:
306
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
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-à-vis a western, "universal" political point of view. By means of exploring the idiosyncratic form of political intimacy gener
Description / Table of Contents:
United in Discontent; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1. Introduction; Chapter 2. Shifting Centres, Tense Peripheries; Chapter 3. Sabili and Indonesian Muslim Resistance to Cosmopolitanism; Chapter 4. The Cosmopolitan and the Noumenal; Chapter 5. Intimacies of Anti-Globalization; Chapter 6. Escaping the 'Modern' Excesses of Japanese Life; Chapter 7. Two Sides of the Same Coin?; Chapter 8. Hegemonic, Subaltern and Anthropological Cosmopolitics; Chapter 9. Conclusion; Notes on Contributors; Index
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