ISBN:
9781138200531
,
1138200530
Language:
English
Pages:
x, 96 Seiten
Keywords:
Kulturanthropologie
;
Weltbürgertum
;
Cosmopolitanism
;
Emigration and immigration / Social aspects
;
Migration, Internal / Social aspects
;
Cosmopolitanism
;
Emigration and immigration / Social aspects
;
Migration, Internal / Social aspects
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Weltbürgertum
;
Kulturanthropologie
Abstract:
"In academic descriptions of cosmopolitanism, one particularly important distinction often recurs. Specifically, scholars have been concerned to distinguish between cosmopolitanism as a set of mundane practices and/or competences on the one hand and cosmopolitanism as a cultivated form of consciousness or moral aspiration on the other. For anthropologists whose ethnographic studies reveal many different expressions of cosmopolitanism, this distinction between aspiration and practice can often be quite ambiguous. This book therefore brings together five contributions from anthropologists who are reporting on encounters and aspirations that reveal different forms of spatial mobility, scales of commitment or risk, and are often transient, ambivalent and precarious. These are circumstances in which cosmopolitanism emerges as uneven and partial rather than as a comprehensive or unequivocal transformation of practice and outlook"--Page i
Description / Table of Contents:
Mobility and cosmopolitanism : complicating the interaction between aspiration and practice / Vered Amit and Pauline Gardiner Barber -- Circumscribed cosmopolitanism : travel aspirations and experiences / Vered Amit -- The dialectics of urban cosmopolitanism : between tolerance and intolerance in cities of strangers / Pnina Werbner -- Micro-cosmopolitanism at the urban scale / Martha Radice -- 'Like a foreigner in my own homeland' : writing the dilemmas of return in Vietnamese-American diaspora / Deborah Reed-Danahay -- Cultivating the cosmpolitan child in Silicon Valley / Heather A. Horst
Note:
The chapters in this book were originally published in Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, volume 22, issue 5 (October 2015)--Page vii
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