This collection is a detailed exploration of cosmopolitanism written by eminent scholars and public intellectuals from many disciplines and cultural backgrounds. By challenging old assumptions and advancing new analytical frameworks, it provides a full and representative set of views on the nature, definition and prospects of cosmopolitanism as well as clarification and explication of different cosmopolitan traditions.
1. Introduction: conceiving cosmopolitanism,Steven Vertovec and Robin Cohen PART 1 WINDOWS ON COSMOPOLITANISM 2. Political belonging in a world of multiple identities,Stuart Hall 3. Middle Eastern experiences of cosmopolitanism,Sami Zubaida 4. Cosmopolitanism and the social experience of cities,Richard Sennett 5. Building cosmopolitanism for another age,David Held PART 2 THEORIES OF COSMOPOLITANISM 6. The cosmopolitan perspective: sociology in the second age of modernity,Ulrich Beck 7. The class consciousness of frequent travellers: towards a critique of actually existing cosmopolitanism,Craig Calhoun 8. Political community beyond the sovereign state, supranational federalism and transnational minorities,Rainer Baub?ck 9. Four cosmopolitanism moments,Robert Fine and Robin Cohen PART 3 CONTEXTS OF COSMOPOLITANISM 10. Colonial cosmopolitanism,Peter Van der Veer 11. Media corporatism and cosmopolitanism,Ayse Caglar 12. Both sides now: culture contact, hybridisation and cosmopolitanism,Chan Kwok Bun 13. Cosmopolitanism at the local level: the development of transnational neighbourhoods,Daniel Hiebert PART 4 PRACTICES OF COSMOPOLITANISM 14. Not universalists, not pluralists: the new cosmopolitans find their own way,David A. Hollinger 15. Interests and identities in cosmopolitan politics,John Tomlinson