Whose Cosmopolitanism? : Critical Perspectives, Relationalities and Discontents

The term __cosmopolitan__ is 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 cosmopolitanism’s possibilities, aspirations and applications—as well as its tensions, contradictions, and discontents—so 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 Term Cosmopolitan Is 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 Cosmopolitanism's Possibilities, Aspirations And Applications - As Well As Its Tensions, Contradictions, And Discontents - So 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. Part I. The Question Of 'whose Cosmopolitanism?' Provocations And Responses -- Provocations -- Whose Cosmopolitanism? Multiple, Globally Enmeshed And Subaltern / Gyan Prakash -- Whose Cosmopolitanism? Genealogies Of Cosmopolitanism / Galin Tihanov -- Whose Cosmopolitanism? And Whose Humanity? / Nina Glick Schiller -- Whose Cosmopolitanism?the Violence Of Idealizations And The Ambivalence Of Self -- Whose Cosmopolitanism? Postcolonial Criticism And The Realities Of Neocolonial Power / Robert Spencer -- Chance, Contingency And The Face-to-face Encounter / Andrew Irving -- Cosmopolitanism And Intelligibility / Sivamohan Valluvan -- Part Ii. The Questions Of Where, When, How And Whether: Towards A Processual Situated Cosmopolitanism -- Encounters, Landscapes And Displacements -- 'it's Cool To Be Cosmo': Tibetan Refugees, Indian Hosts, Richard Gere And 'crude Cosmopolitanism' In Dharamsala / Atreyee Sen -- Diasporic Cosmopolitanism: Migrants, Sociabilities And City Making / Nina Glick Schiller -- Freedom And Laughter In An Uncertain World: Language, Expression And Cosmopolitan Experience / Andrew Irving -- Cinema, Literature And The Social Imagination -- Narratives Of Exile: Cosmopolitanism Beyond The Liberal Imagination / Galin Tihanov -- The Uneasy Cosmopolitans Of Code Unknown / Jackie Stacey -- Pregnant Possibilities: Cosmopolitanism, Kinship And Reproductive Futurism In Maria Full Of Grace And In America / Heather Latimer -- Backstage/ Onstage Cosmopolitanism: Jia Zhangke's The World / Felicia Chan -- Endless War Or Domains Of Sociability? Conflict, Instabilities And Aspirations -- Politics, Cosmopolitics And Preventive Development At The Kyrgyzstan-uzbekistan Border / Madeleine Reeves -- Memory Of War And Cosmopolitan Solidarity / Ewa Ochman -- Cosmopolitanism And Conviviality In An Age Of Perpetual War / Paul Gilroy. Edited By Nina Glick Schiller And Andrew Irving. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.