Robert Shepherd is editor of the Critical Asian Studies journal, lecturer for the Smithsonian Journeys program, and adjunct professor of international affairs at George Washington University.

• Part I: Cosmopolitans on TourChapter 1: A Cosmopolitan Sense of Place: Busking, Tourism, and Performance in ‘The City of Strangers’ by Adam KaulChapter 2: Are We (Still) the World? Service Learning and the Weird Slot in Student Narratives of Study Abroad by Ben Feinberg and Sarah E. EdwardsChapter 3: Striving for Cosmopolitanism: Voluntouristic Encounters in Guatemala by Rebecca L. NelsonChapter 4: Making the Strange Familiar, but not Necessarily the Familiar Strange: On Tour in China by Robert Shepherd Part II: Encountering CosmopolitanismChapter 5: From Bieber to the Buddha: “Friendly Guides” and Cosmopolitanism from Below in Bodh Gaya, India by David GearyChapter 6: Dirty Work, Glamorous Migrant: Korean Emirates Airlines Female Flight Attendants and Cosmopolitan Racial and National Hierarchies Alex Jong-Seok LeeChapter 7: The Color Purple: Indigenous Weavers, Heritage Cloth and Interpretations of Cosmopolitanism in Practice by Cherubim Quizon Chapter 8: “Lo

This book is a much-needed intervention into academic debates about the production and consumption of travel, allure, place, otherness, and the multiple registers and resonances of tourist encounters as worldly experiences in the volatile and unsteady worlds of late-capitalist ruins. It is a notable and timely collection that makes an original contribution to the anthropology of tourism, travel, and cosmopolitanism. Using the very rich and distinctive perspectives, ethnographic locations, and subject matters of its authors the book troubles liberal assumptions about cosmopolitanism, as the world rapidly becomes a more complex and traveled place. This superb volume promises to become a key text in the field of tourism and travel studies.

Robert Shepherd is editor of the Critical Asian Studies journal, lecturer for the Smithsonian Journeys program, and adjunct professor of international affairs at George Washington University.

• Part I: Cosmopolitans on TourChapter 1: A Cosmopolitan Sense of Place: Busking, Tourism, and Performance in ‘The City of Strangers’ by Adam KaulChapter 2: Are We (Still) the World? Service Learning and the Weird Slot in Student Narratives of Study Abroad by Ben Feinberg and Sarah E. EdwardsChapter 3: Striving for Cosmopolitanism: Voluntouristic Encounters in Guatemala by Rebecca L. NelsonChapter 4: Making the Strange Familiar, but not Necessarily the Familiar Strange: On Tour in China by Robert Shepherd Part II: Encountering CosmopolitanismChapter 5: From Bieber to the Buddha: “Friendly Guides” and Cosmopolitanism from Below in Bodh Gaya, India by David GearyChapter 6: Dirty Work, Glamorous Migrant: Korean Emirates Airlines Female Flight Attendants and Cosmopolitan Racial and National Hierarchies Alex Jong-Seok LeeChapter 7: The Color Purple: Indigenous Weavers, Heritage Cloth and Interpretations of Cosmopolitanism in Practice by Cherubim Quizon Chapter 8: “Lo

This book is a much-needed intervention into academic debates about the production and consumption of travel, allure, place, otherness, and the multiple registers and resonances of tourist encounters as worldly experiences in the volatile and unsteady worlds of late-capitalist ruins. It is a notable and timely collection that makes an original contribution to the anthropology of tourism, travel, and cosmopolitanism. Using the very rich and distinctive perspectives, ethnographic locations, and subject matters of its authors the book troubles liberal assumptions about cosmopolitanism, as the world rapidly becomes a more complex and traveled place. This superb volume promises to become a key text in the field of tourism and travel studies.

Robert Shepherd is editor of the Critical Asian Studies journal, lecturer for the Smithsonian Journeys program, and adjunct professor of international affairs at George Washington University.

• Part I: Cosmopolitans on TourChapter 1: A Cosmopolitan Sense of Place: Busking, Tourism, and Performance in ‘The City of Strangers’ by Adam KaulChapter 2: Are We (Still) the World? Service Learning and the Weird Slot in Student Narratives of Study Abroad by Ben Feinberg and Sarah E. EdwardsChapter 3: Striving for Cosmopolitanism: Voluntouristic Encounters in Guatemala by Rebecca L. NelsonChapter 4: Making the Strange Familiar, but not Necessarily the Familiar Strange: On Tour in China by Robert Shepherd Part II: Encountering CosmopolitanismChapter 5: From Bieber to the Buddha: “Friendly Guides” and Cosmopolitanism from Below in Bodh Gaya, India by David GearyChapter 6: Dirty Work, Glamorous Migrant: Korean Emirates Airlines Female Flight Attendants and Cosmopolitan Racial and National Hierarchies Alex Jong-Seok LeeChapter 7: The Color Purple: Indigenous Weavers, Heritage Cloth and Interpretations of Cosmopolitanism in Practice by Cherubim Quizon Chapter 8: “Lo

This book is a much-needed intervention into academic debates about the production and consumption of travel, allure, place, otherness, and the multiple registers and resonances of tourist encounters as worldly experiences in the volatile and unsteady worlds of late-capitalist ruins. It is a notable and timely collection that makes an original contribution to the anthropology of tourism, travel, and cosmopolitanism. Using the very rich and distinctive perspectives, ethnographic locations, and subject matters of its authors the book troubles liberal assumptions about cosmopolitanism, as the world rapidly becomes a more complex and traveled place. This superb volume promises to become a key text in the field of tourism and travel studies.