ISBN:
9781000168686
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (199 pages)
Series Statement:
Routledge Studies in Global and Transnational Politics Ser.
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DDC:
306.2
Keywords:
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Civil society..
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World citizenship
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Political sociology..
Abstract:
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of contributors -- Preface -- Introduction: the importance of the 'cultural encounter' -- Challenging boundaries in challenging times -- A Political Sociology of the Cultural Encounter -- Synopsis -- Note -- References -- Part I: Encounters beyond borders -- Chapter 1: What is a border comrade? -- Jumping 'the pond' -- Injecting the 'spatial turn' into border studies -- Cosmopolitan borders -- Borderwork -- Seeing like a border -- Coda: uncorking the spatial genie -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Chapter 2: Seeing from the border with Chris Rumford: towards cosmopolitan borders and a multiperspectival border studies -- Theorising borders -- Global borders (borders and globalisation) -- Bordering and connectivity: border spaces as cosmopolitan workshops -- Studying borders differently: a multiperspectival border studies -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: Politics of space, strangeness, and culture in the global age -- Critical cosmopolitanism in the light of postmodern social theory -- Borderwork and the 'cosmopolitan paradox' thesis -- Strangeness and the 'cosmopolitan stranger' thesis -- Towards a cosmopolitan liberation via technology and art -- Some concluding remarks -- References -- Part II: Everyday encounters and strangeness -- Chapter 4: The complex trajectories of the commoner: cosmopolitanism, localisation, and nationalism -- Citizenships -- Alter-globalisation, social democracy, the third way, and cosmopolitanism. -- The arrival of the commoner -- The alter-globalisation movement and the commoner -- Social democracy and the commoner -- Has the commoner a future? -- References -- Chapter 5: Artistic encounters with difference, aesthetic cosmopolitanism, and the political imagination -- Introduction.
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