ISBN:
1845456300
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9781845456306
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (186 p)
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24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2010 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version United in Discontent : Local Responses to Cosmopolitanism and Globalization
DDC:
306
Keywords:
Cosmopolitanism Cross-cultural studies
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 genera
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;
Description / Table of 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.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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