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Oxford Conceiving Cosmopolitanism Theory Context and Practice by Steven Vertovec, Robin Cohen
Understanding the ancient and long sidelined concept of cosmopolitanism has suddenly found a fresh impetus and urgency. Globalization, international migration, multiculturalism and global social movements, as well as atrocities committed by those with narrow religious and ethnic identities, have led to reposing of two basic cosmopolitan questions: Can we ever live peacefully with one another? What do we share, collectively, as human beings?_x000D_The term cosmopolitanism has attracted many understandings and uses over the years. Covering the global, national, social and personal levels of analysis, the authors consider the multiple meanings of the term in the past and in the present and develop new ways of conceiving cosmopolitanism. Through challenging old assumptions and advancing new analytical frameworks, the collection provides a full and representative set of views on the nature, definition and prospects of cosmopolitanism._x000D_Written by eminent scholars and publicly recognised intellectuals from a variety of cultural backgrounds, this book is the most comprehensive account of the theory and practice of cosmopolitanism yet attempted._x000D_ Table of contents :- _x000D_
1. Introduction: conceiving cosmopolitanism ; PART 1 WINDOWS ON COSMOPOLITANISM ; 2. Political belonging in a world of multiple identities ; 3. Middle Eastern experiences of cosmopolitanism ; 4. Cosmopolitanism and the social experience of cities ; 5. Building cosmopolitanism for another age ; PART 2 THEORIES OF COSMOPOLITANISM ; 6. The cosmopolitan perspective: sociology in the second age of modernity ; 7. The class consciousness of frequent travellers: towards a critique of actually existing cosmopolitanism ; 8. Political community beyond the sovereign state, supranational federalism and transnational minorities ; 9. Four cosmopolitanism moments ; PART 3 CONTEXTS OF COSMOPOLITANISM ; 10. Colonial cosmopolitanism ; 11. Media corporatism and cosmopolitanism ; 12. Both sides now: culture contact, hybridisation and cosmopolitanism ; 13. Cosmopolitanism at the local level: the development of transnational neighbourhoods ; PART 4 PRACTICES OF COSMOPOLITANISM ; 14. Not universalists, not pluralists: the new cosmopolitans find their own way ; 15. Interests and identities in cosmopolitan politics ; 16. Cosmopolitan harm conventions ; 17. Cosmopolitanism and organised violence_x000D_