Whose Cosmopolitanism Critical Perspectives, Relationalities And Discontents [Paperback]

The termcosmopolitanis increasingly used within different social, cultural and political settings, including academia, popular media and national politics. However those who invoke the cosmopolitan project rarely ask whose experience, understanding, or vision of cosmopolitanism is being described and for whose purposes? In response, this volume assembles contributors from different disciplines and theoretical backgrounds to examine cosmopolitanisms possibilities, aspirations and applicationsas well as its tensions, contradictions, and discontentsso as to offer a critical commentary on the vital but often neglected question:whose cosmopolitanism?The book investigates when, where, and how cosmopolitanism emerges as a contemporary social process, global aspiration or emancipatory political project and asks whether it can serve as a political or methodological framework for action in a world of conflict and difference.

The strengths of this volume are numerous. It is interdisciplinary, contains ethnographic original data, and is extremely well organized despite its complexity and high number of chapters. It is also appealing to a large audience including the undergraduate and graduate students, and scholars in the disciplines of cultural studies, anthropology and sociology, migration, international development and religious studies&This collection, without hesitation, is an asset, a timely contribution to a number of fields.? Anthropological Forum

This book is a timely, much needed, rich and multifaceted tapestry on cosmopolitanism in todays world& this book is more than very timely for anybody engaging research and taking a practical action to create the world a better place for those who are displaced& I imagine that this book would quickly find its way into required reading lists for the growing number of researchers questioning cosmopolitanism and postcolonialism from various disciplinary angles alÃ