Whose Cosmopolitanism?

Nina Glick Schiller is Founding Director of the Research Institute for Cosmopolitan Culture, Professor Emeritus of the University of Manchester and the University of New Hampshire. She serves as an Associate of the Max Planck Institutes of Social Anthropology, of Ethnic and Religious Diversity, and of COMPAS, Oxford University. Recent publications include Global Regimes of Mobilities (2012 Routledge), Beyond Methodological Nationalism (2012 Routledge), and Locating Migration (2011 Cornell).

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: What’s In a Word? What’s in a Question?Andrew Irving and Nina Glick SchillerPART I: THE QUESTION OF WHOSE COSMOPOLITANISM? PROVOCATIONS AND RESPONSESProvocationsChapter 1. Whose Cosmopolitanism? Multiple, Globally Enmeshed and SubalternGyan PrakashChapter 2. Whose Cosmopolitanism? Genealogies of CosmopolitanismGalin TihanovChapter 3. Whose Cosmopolitanism? And Whose Humanity?Nina Glick SchillerChapter 4. Whose Cosmopolitanism? The Violence of Idealizations and the Ambivalence of SelfJackie StaceyChapter 5. Whose Cosmopolitanism? Postcolonial Criticism and The Realities of Neo-Colonial PowerRobert SpencerResponsesChapter 6. The Performativity and Suspension of DisbeliefJacqueline RoseChapter 7. What Do We Do With Cosmopolitanism?David HarveyChapter 8. Cosmopolitan Theory and the Daily Pluralism of LifeTariq RamadanChapter 9. Chance, Contingency and the Face to Face EncounterAndrew Irving    Chapter 10. Cosmopolitanism and IntelligibilitySivamohan ValluvanPART II: THE QUESTIONS OF WHERE, WHEN, HOW, AND WHETHER: TOWARDS A PROCESSUAL SITUATED COSMOPOLITANISMWhose Encounters, Landscapes and Displacements?Chapter 11. ‘It’s Cool to be Cosmo’: Tibetan Refugees, Indian Hosts, Richard Gere and ‘Crude Cosmopolitanism' in DharamsalaAtreyee SenChapter 12. Diasporic Cosmopolitanism: Migrants, Sociabilities and City-MakingNina Glick SchillerChapter 13. Freedom and Laughter in an Uncertain World: Language, Expression and Cosmopolitanism ExperienceAndrew IrvingCinema, Literature and the Social ImaginationChapter 14. Narratives of Exile: Cosmopolitanism beyond the Liberal ImaginationGalin Tihanov  Chapter 15. The Uneasy Cosmopolitans of Code UnknownJackie Stacey  Chapter 16. Pregnant Possibilities: Cosmopolitanism, Kinship and Reproductive Futurism in Maria Full of Grace and In AmericaHeather LatimerChapter 17. Backstage/Onstage Cosmopolitanism: Jia Zhangke’s The WorldFelicia Chan  Endless War or Domains of Sociability? Conflict, Instabilities and AspirationsChapter 18. Politics, Cosmopolitics and Preventive Development at the Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan BorderMadeleine ReevesChapter 19. Memory of War and Cosmopolitan SolidarityEwa OchmanChapter 20. Cosmopolitanism and Conviviality in an Age of Perpetual WarPaul GilroyNotes on ContributorsIndex

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