Description |
241 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm. |
Series |
A millenial quartet book |
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Millennial quartet.
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"Public culture books"--Ser. title page. |
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Originally published as vol. 12, no. 3 of Public culture. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Cosmopolitanism / Sheldon Pollock [and others] -- Cosmopolitan and vernacular in history / Sheldon Pollock -- Spectral housing and urban cleansing: notes on millennial Mumbai / Arjun Appadurai -- Universalism and belonging in the logic of capital / Dipesh Chakrabarty -- The Senegalese Murid trade diaspora and the making of a vernacular cosmopolitanism / Mamadou Diouf -- "Crushing the pistachio": eroticism in Senegal and the art of Ousmane Ndiaye Dago / T.K. Biaya -- The many faces of cosmo-polis: border thinking and critical cosmopolitanism / Walter D. Mignolo -- Zhang Dali's Dialogue: conversation with a city / Wu Hung -- Cosmopolitan de-scriptions: Shanghai and Hong Kong / Ackbar Abbas. |
Summary |
"As the final installment of "Public Culture's Millennial Quartet, "Cosmopolitanism" assesses the pasts and possible futures of cosmopolitanism--or ways of thinking, feeling, and acting beyond one's particular society. With contributions from distinguished scholars in disciplines such as literary studies, art history, South Asian studies, and anthropology, this volume recenters the history and theory of translocal political aspirations and cultural ideas from the usual Western vantage point to areas outside Europe, such as South Asia, China, and Africa. By examining new archives, proposing new theoretical formulations, and suggesting new possibilities of political practice, the contributors critically probe the concept of cosmopolitanism. On the one hand, cosmopolitanism may be taken to promise a form of supraregional political solidarity, but on the other, these essays argue, it may erode precisely those intimate cultural differences that derive their meaning from particular places and traditions. Given that most cosmopolitan political formations -- from the Roman empire and European imperialism to contemporary globalization -- have been coercive and unequal, can there be a noncoercive and egalitarian cosmopolitan politics? Finally, the volume asks whether cosmopolitanism can promise any universalism that is not the unwarranted generalization of some Western particular."--Back cover. |
Subject |
Cosmopolitanism.
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Internacionalismo.
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Cosmopolitanism. (OCoLC)fst00880635
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Multiculturalismo.
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Sociologia urbana.
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Vida urbana.
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Weltbürgertum.
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Weltbürgertum. (DE-588)4189574-5
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Internationalism.
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Added Author |
Breckenridge, Carol Appadurai, 1942-2009.
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Added Title |
Public culture (Durham, N.C.)
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Other Form: |
Online version: Cosmopolitanism. Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2002 (OCoLC)657301969 |
Standard No. |
9780822328995 |
ISBN |
0822328844 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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9780822328841 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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0822328992 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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9780822328995 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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