Robin Cohen is Dean of Humanities at the University of Cape Town and a Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick.Steve Vertovec is Director of the Economic and Social Research Council's (ESRC) Research Centre on Migration, Policy and Society at the University of Oxford and Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study (Wissenschaftskolleg), Berlin.

• 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

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