Cosmopolitanism And Solidarity

Author : David A. Hollinger
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2006-03-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780299216634

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Cosmopolitanism and Solidarity by David A. Hollinger Pdf

"Who are we?" is the question at the core of these fascinating essays from one of the nation's leading intellectual historians. With old identities increasingly destabilized throughout the world—the result of demographic migration, declining empires, and the quickening integration of the global capitalist economy and its attendant communications systems—David A. Hollinger argues that the problem of group solidarity is emerging as one of the central challenges of the twenty-first century. Building on many of the topics in his highly acclaimed earlier work, these essays treat a number of contentious issues, many of them deeply embedded in America's past and present political polarization. Essays include "Amalgamation and Hypodescent," "Enough Already: Universities Do Not Need More Christianity," "Cultural Relativism," "Why Are Jews Preeminent in Science and Scholarship: The Veblen Thesis Reconsidered," and "The One Drop Rule and the One Hate Rule." Hollinger is at his best in his judicious approach to America's controversial history of race, ethnicity, and religion, and he offers his own thoughtful prescriptions as Americans and others throughout the world struggle with the pressing questions of identity and solidarity.

Author : Craig Calhoun
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2007-04-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134127573

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Nations Matter by Craig Calhoun Pdf

Craig Calhoun, one of the most respected social scientists in the world, re-examines nationalism in light of post-1989 enthusiasm for globalization and the new anxieties of the twenty-first century. Nations Matter argues that pursuing a purely postnational politics is premature at best and possibly dangerous. Calhoun argues that, rather than wishing nationalism away, it is important to transform it. One key is to distinguish the ideology of nationalism as fixed and inherited identity from the development of public projects that continually remake the terms of national integration. Standard concepts like 'civic' vs. 'ethnic' nationalism can get in the way unless they are critically re-examined – as an important chapter in this book does. This book is essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students of sociology, history, political theory and all subjects concerned with nationalism, globalization, and cosmopolitanism.

Author : Craig J. Calhoun
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Ethnicity
ISBN : OCLC:171291997

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Nations Matter by Craig J. Calhoun Pdf

Author : Rosi Braidotti,Patrick Hanafin,Bolette Blaagaard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780415623810

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After Cosmopolitanism by Rosi Braidotti,Patrick Hanafin,Bolette Blaagaard Pdf

At a time when social and political reality seems to move away from the practice of cosmopolitanism, whilst being in serious need of a new international framework to regulate global interaction, what are the new definitions and practices of cosmopolitanism? Including contributions from leading figures across the humanities and social sciences, After Cosmopolitanism takes up this question as its central challenge. Its core argument is the idea that our globalised condition forms the heart of contemporary cosmopolitan claims, which do not refer to a transcendental ideal, but are rather immanent to the material conditions of global interdependence. But to what extent do emerging definitions of cosmopolitanism contribute to new representative democratic models of governance? The present volume argues that a radical transformation of cosmopolitanism is already ongoing and that more effort is needed to take stock of transformations which are both necessary and possible. To this end, After Cosmopolitanism calls for an understanding of cosmopolitanism that is more attentive to the material reality of our social and political situation and less focused on linguistic analyses of its metaphorical implications. It is the call for a cosmopolitanism that is also a cosmopolitics.

Author : Inés Valdez
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781108483322

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Transnational Cosmopolitanism by Inés Valdez Pdf

Advances normative notion of transnational cosmopolitanism based on Du Bois's writings and practice, and discusses limitations of Kantian cosmopolitanism.

Author : Gerard Delanty
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 829 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351028882

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Routledge International Handbook of Cosmopolitanism Studies by Gerard Delanty Pdf

Cosmopolitanism is about the extension of the moral and political horizons of people, societies, organizations and institutions. Over the past 25 years there has been considerable interest in cosmopolitan thought across the human social sciences. The second edition of the Routledge International Handbook of Cosmopolitanism Studies is an enlarged, revised and updated version of the first edition. It consists of 50 chapters across a broader range of topics in the social and human sciences. Eighteen entirely new chapters cover topics that have become increasingly prominent in cosmopolitan scholarship in recent years, such as sexualities, public space, the Kantian legacy, the commons, internet, generations, care and heritage. This Second Edition aims to showcase some of the most innovative and promising developments in recent writing in the human and social sciences on cosmopolitanism. Both comprehensive and innovative in the topics covered, the Routledge International Handbook of Cosmopolitanism Studies is divided into four sections. Cosmopolitan theory and history with a focus on the classical and contemporary approaches, The cultural dimensions of cosmopolitanism, The politics of cosmopolitanism, World varieties of cosmopolitanism. There is a strong emphasis in interdisciplinarity, with chapters covering contributions in philosophy, history, sociology, anthropology, media studies, international relations. The Handboook’s clear and comprehensive style will appeal to a wide undergraduate and postgraduate audience across the social and human sciences.

Author : Nina Glick Schiller,Andrew Irving
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781785335068

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Whose Cosmopolitanism? by Nina Glick Schiller,Andrew Irving Pdf

The term cosmopolitan is increasingly used within different social, cultural and political settings, including academia, popular media and national politics. However those who invoke the cosmopolitan project rarely ask whose experience, understanding, or vision of cosmopolitanism is being described and for whose purposes? In response, this volume assembles contributors from different disciplines and theoretical backgrounds to examine cosmopolitanism’s possibilities, aspirations and applications—as well as its tensions, contradictions, and discontents—so as to offer a critical commentary on the vital but often neglected question: whose cosmopolitanism? The book investigates when, where, and how cosmopolitanism emerges as a contemporary social process, global aspiration or emancipatory political project and asks whether it can serve as a political or methodological framework for action in a world of conflict and difference.

Author : Feyzi Baban,Kim Rygiel
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030568948

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Fostering Pluralism through Solidarity Activism in Europe by Feyzi Baban,Kim Rygiel Pdf

This edited collection brings together academics, artists and members of civil society organizations to engage in a discussion about the ideas of living with others, through concepts such as cosmopolitanism, solidarity, and conviviality, and the practices of doing so. In recent years, right wing and populist movements have emerged and strengthened across Europe and North America, rejecting the value of cultural, ethnic and religious plurality. Governments in Europe and North America are weakening their commitment to the international refugee regime, erecting new barriers to entry. Even as governments fail to accommodate growing pluralism, however, civil society initiatives have emerged with the aim of welcoming newcomers, such as migrants and refugees, and finding alternative ways of living together in diverse societies. Motivated by a desire to show solidarity, these initiatives demonstrate enormous creativity in fostering pluralism in an environment that has largely become hostile to the arrival of newcomers. The contributions gathered here seek to explore such initiatives and the important work that they do in fostering ways of living together with others from diverse cultural and religious backgrounds. In focusing conceptually and empirically on discussions and examples of civil society initiatives, this book interrogates why, how and under what circumstances are some communities more welcoming than others.

Author : Kwame Anthony Appiah
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781479829682

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Cosmopolitanisms by Kwame Anthony Appiah Pdf

An indispensable collection that re-examines what it means to belong in the world. "Where are you from?" The word cosmopolitan was first used as a way of evading exactly this question, when Diogenes the Cynic declared himself a “kosmo-polites,” or citizen of the world. Cosmopolitanism displays two impulses—on the one hand, a detachment from one’s place of origin, while on the other, an assertion of membership in some larger, more compelling collective. Cosmopolitanisms works from the premise that there is more than one kind of cosmopolitanism, a plurality that insists cosmopolitanism can no longer stand as a single ideal against which all smaller loyalties and forms of belonging are judged. Rather, cosmopolitanism can be defined as one of many possible modes of life, thought, and sensibility that are produced when commitments and loyalties are multiple and overlapping. Featuring essays by major thinkers, including Homi Bhabha, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Thomas Bender, Leela Gandhi, Ato Quayson, and David Hollinger, among others, this collection asks what these plural cosmopolitanisms have in common, and how the cosmopolitanisms of the underprivileged might serve the ethical values and political causes that matter to their members. In addition to exploring the philosophy of Kant and the space of the city, this volume focuses on global justice, which asks what cosmopolitanism is good for, and on the global south, which has often been assumed to be an object of cosmopolitan scrutiny, not itself a source or origin of cosmopolitanism. This book gives a new meaning to belonging and its ground-breaking arguments call for deep and necessary discussion and discourse.

Author : Steven Vertovec,Robin Cohen
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199252282

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Conceiving Cosmopolitanism by Steven Vertovec,Robin Cohen Pdf

In questioning what we share as human beings and whether we can ever live in peace with one another, the contributors to this study consider the multiple meanings of the term cosmopolitanism in the past and present. They then develop new ways of conceiving cosmopolitanism for the 21st century and beyond.

Author : Gerard Delanty
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 615 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780415600811

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Routledge Handbook of Cosmopolitanism Studies by Gerard Delanty Pdf

This book reflects the broad reception of cosmopolitan thought in a variety of disciplines and across international borders.

Author : Lawrence Wilde
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780748674565

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Global Solidarity by Lawrence Wilde Pdf

This book explores the development of the goal of human solidarity at a time when the processes of globalisation offer the conditions for the development of a harmonious global community.

Author : Nigel Rapport
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857455239

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Anyone by Nigel Rapport Pdf

The significance that people grant to their affiliations as members of nations, religions, classes, races, ethnicities and genders is evidence of the vital need for a cosmopolitan project that originates in the figure of Anyone – the universal and yet individual human being. Cosmopolitanism offers an alternative to multiculturalism, a different vision of identity, belonging, solidarity and justice, that avoids the seemingly intractable character of identity politics: it identifies samenesses of the human condition that underlie the surface differences of history, culture and society, nation, ethnicity, religion, class, race and gender. This book argues for the importance of cosmopolitanism as a theory of human being, as a methodology for social science and as a moral and political program.

Author : Seyla Benhabib
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2008-07-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199708604

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Another Cosmopolitanism by Seyla Benhabib Pdf

In these two important lectures, distinguished political philosopher Seyla Benhabib argues that since the UN Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, we have entered a phase of global civil society which is governed by cosmopolitan norms of universal justice -- norms which are difficult for some to accept as legitimate since they are in conflict with democratic ideals. In her first lecture, Benhabib argues that this tension can never be fully resolved, but it can be mitigated through the renegotiation of the dual commitments to human rights and sovereign self-determination. Her second lecture develops this idea in detail, with special reference to recent developments in Europe (for example, the banning of Muslim head scarves in France). The EU has seen the replacement of the traditional unitary model of citizenship with a new model that disaggregates the components of traditional citizenship, making it possible to be a citizen of multiple entities at the same time. The volume also contains a substantive introduction by Robert Post, the volume editor, and contributions by Bonnie Honig (Northwestern University), Will Kymlicka (Queens University), and Jeremy Waldron (Columbia School of Law).

Author : G. Kendall,I. Woodward,Z. Skrbis
Publisher : Springer
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2009-04-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230234659

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The Sociology of Cosmopolitanism by G. Kendall,I. Woodward,Z. Skrbis Pdf

The dream of a cosmopolitical utopia has been around for thousands of years. Yet the promise of being locally situated while globally connected and mobile has never seemed more possible than today. Through a classical sociological approach, this book analyses the political, technological and cultural systems underlying cosmopolitanism.