Conceiving Cosmopolitanism Theory, Context, and Practice [Paperback]

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