Militant Cosmopolitics

Author : Tamara Caraus
Publisher : EUP
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1399507915

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Militant Cosmopolitics by Tamara Caraus Pdf

Maps the radical cosmopolitan dimension of global protests and social movements from the last decades This book explores cosmopolitanism's radical dynamic as expressed in the struggles from below, all over the world, against exclusion and domination, pointing to the horizon of another world that appears possible. It shows that cosmopolitanism emerges negatively through disaffiliation from the given forms of belonging and by questioning the existing meanings and unjust practices. Through a radical critique, cosmopolitanism goes to the roots of the existing world order based on the nation-state, exposes its exclusionary structure, and brings instead the idea of a World Republic where No One Is Illegal and where all are equal citizens of the world. Caraus captures this radical dynamic in a cluster of novel concepts, such as 'cosmopolitanism of dissent', 'post-foundational cosmopolitanism', 'cosmopolitan ontology', 'institution of critique', 'radical cosmopolitical love', all integrated into an approach of a militant and radical cosmopolitics that reclaims the legacy of the first cosmopolitan stance of the Ancient Cynics. Tamara Caraus is Researcher at the Centre of Philosophy, University of Lisbon

Author : Pheng Cheah,Bruce Robbins,Social Text Collective
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0816630682

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Cosmopolitics by Pheng Cheah,Bruce Robbins,Social Text Collective Pdf

Eminent contributors look at the present and future of cosmopolitanism and its relationship to nationalism. Nationalism and the nation-state have recently come under siege, their political dominance gradually eroding under the strain of such forces as ethnic strife, religious fundamentalism, homogenizing global capitalism, and the unprecedented movements of people and populations across cultures, countries, even cyberspace. A resurgent cosmopolitanism has emerged as a viable and alternative political project. In Cosmopolitics, a renowned group of scholars and political theorists offers the first sustained examination of that project, its inclusive and often universalist claims, and its tangled and sometimes volatile relationship to nationalism. Understood generally as a fundamental commitment to the interests of humanity, traditional cosmopolitanism has been criticized as a privileged position, an aloof detachment from the obligations and affiliations that constrain nation-bound lives and move people to political action. Yet, as these essays make clear, contemporary cosmopolitanism arises not from a disengagement, but rather from well-defined cultural, historical, and political contexts. The contributors explore a feasible cosmopolitanism now beginning to emerge, and consider the question of whether it can or will displace nationalism, which needs to be rethought rather than dismissed as obsolete. Intellectually provocative and erudite, this interdisciplinary volume presents a diverse array of critical perspectives, assessing both the ideal enterprise and the current realities of the rapidly developing cosmopolitical movement.

Author : Daniele Archibugi
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781789608717

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Debating Cosmopolitics by Daniele Archibugi Pdf

Cosmopolitics, the concept of a world politics based on shared democratic values, is in an increasingly fragile state. While Western democracies insist ever more vehemently upon a maintenance of their privileges-freedom of speech, security, wealth-an increasing number of the world's inhabitants are under threat of poverty, famine and war. What is needed, the writers suggest, is a deliberate decision to extend the principles and values of democracy to the sphere of international relations. Recent experience does not bode well, but their arguments, which range from reform of the United Nations, reduction of military weapons, additional power for international judiciary institutions and an increase in aid to developing countries, urge new and inspired action.

Author : D. Morgan,G. Banham
Publisher : Springer
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2007-02-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780230210684

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Cosmopolitics and the Emergence of a Future by D. Morgan,G. Banham Pdf

In 1795 Immanuel Kant proclaimed that humans had entered into a 'universal community'. Since then, connections have grown ever more pronounced, with the notion of 'cosmopolitics' defining the modern age. This interdisciplinary volume makes a timely contribution to debates on international law, global ecology and economy and transnational synergies.

Author : Anders Blok,Ignacio Farias
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781317604990

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Urban Cosmopolitics by Anders Blok,Ignacio Farias Pdf

Invoking the notion of ‘cosmopolitics’ from Bruno Latour and Isabelle Stengers, this volume shows how and why cities constitute privileged sites for studying the search for and composition of common worlds of cohabitation. A cosmopolitical approach to the city focuses on the multiple assemblages of human and nonhuman actors that constitute urban common worlds, and on the conflicts and compromises that arise among different ways of assembling the city. It brings into view how urban worlds are always in the process of being subtly transformed, destabilized, decentred, questioned, criticized, or even destroyed. As such, it opens up novel questions as to the gradual and contested composition of urban life, thereby forcing us to pay more explicit attention to the politics of urban assemblages. Focusing on changing sanitation infrastructures and practices, emerging forms of urban activism, processes of economic restructuring, transformations of the built environment, changing politics of expert-based urban planning, as well as novel practices for navigating the urban everyday, the contributions gathered in this volume explore different conceptual and empirical configurations of urban cosmopolitics: agencements, assemblies, atmospheres. Taken together, the volume thus aims at introducing and specifying a novel research program for rethinking urban studies and politics, in ways that remain sensitive to the multiple agencies, materialities, concerns and publics that constitute any urban situation.

Author : Edin Tabak
Publisher : Chandos Publishing
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780081001288

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Information Cosmopolitics by Edin Tabak Pdf

Information Cosmopolitics explores interaction between nationalist and information sharing practices in academic communities with a view to understanding the potential impacts of these interactions. This book is also a resounding critique of existing theories and methods as well as the launching point for the proposition of an alternate approach. Dominant approaches in the Information Behaviour (IB) field are investigated, as well as questions existing theoretical approaches to nationalism and cosmopolitanism. The concept of information cosmopolitics is introduced as an approach for tracing information practices and enabling research participants to perform their own narratives and positionings, and that the focus of information studies should be on tracing the continuous circulation of processes of individualisation and collectivization. Provide an alternative to the dominant approaches in the field of Information Behaviour Offers a novel theoretical model to trace information practices Questions existing approaches to nationalism and cosmopolitanism

Author : Johanna Leinius
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030990879

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The Cosmopolitics of Solidarity by Johanna Leinius Pdf

This volume discusses how commonality and difference are negotiated across heterogeneous social movements in Latin America, especially Peru. It applies cosmopolitics as an analytical lens to understand the intricacies of social movement encounters across difference, without imposing colonial hierarchies or categorizations. The author blends multiple theoretical approaches—such as social movement research, postcolonial feminism, and post-foundational discourse theory—with ethnographic insights to develop a theory of cosmopolitical solidarity. Providing a transnational and intersectional perspective on the politics of social justice in a postcolonial context, this book will appeal to students of social movements, gender studies, racism, Latin American studies, and international relations, as well as practitioners involved in activism, social work, or international cooperation.

Author : James D. Ingram
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780231161107

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Radical Cosmopolitics by James D. Ingram Pdf

While supporting the cosmopolitan pursuit of a world that respects all rights and interests, James D. Ingram believes political theorists have, in their approach to this project, compromised its egalitarian and emancipatory principles. Focusing on recent debates without losing sight of cosmopolitanism’s ancient and Enlightenment roots, Ingram confronts the philosophical difficulties of defending universal ideals and the implications for ethics and political theory. In morality as in politics, theorists have generally focused first on discovering universal values and second on their implementation. Ingram argues that only by prioritizing the development and articulation of universal values through political action in the fight for freedom and equality can theorists do justice to these efforts and cosmopolitanism’s universal vocation. Only by proceeding from the local to the global, from the bottom up rather than from the top down, on the basis of political practice rather than moral ideals, can we salvage moral and political universalism. Ingram provides the clearest, most systematic account yet of this schematic reversal and its radical possibilities.

Author : C.L. Quinan,Kathrin Thiele
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000372878

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Biopolitics, Necropolitics, Cosmopolitics by C.L. Quinan,Kathrin Thiele Pdf

The concepts of biopolitics and necropolitics have increasingly gained scholarly attention, particularly in light of today’s urgent and troubling issues that mark some lives as more – or less – worthy than others, including the migration crisis, rise of populism on a global scale, homonationalist practices, and state-sanctioned targeting of gender, sexual, racial, and ethnic ‘others’. This book aims to nuance this conversation by emphasising feminist and queer investments and interventions and by adding the analytical lens of cosmopolitics to ongoing debates around life/living and death/dying in the current political climate. In this way, we move forward toward envisioning feminist and queer futures that rethink categories such as ‘human’ and ‘subjectivity’ based on classical modern premises. Informed by feminist/queer studies, postcolonial theory, cultural analysis, and critical posthumanism, Biopolitics, Necropolitics, Cosmopolitics engages with longstanding questions of biopolitics and necropolitics in an era of neoliberalism and late capitalism, but does so by urging for a more inclusive (and less violent) cosmopolitical framework. Taking account of these global dynamics that are shaped by asymmetrical power relations, this fruitful posthuman(ist) and post-/decolonial approach allows for visions of transformation of the matrix of in-/exclusion into feminist/queer futures that work towards planetary social justice. This book is a significant new contribution to feminist and queer philosophy and politics, and will be of interest to academics, researchers, and advanced students of gender studies, postcolonial studies, sociology, philosophy, politics, and law. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Gender Studies.

Author : András Sajó,Lorri Rutt Bentch
Publisher : Eleven International Publishing
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Civil rights
ISBN : 9789077596043

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Militant Democracy by András Sajó,Lorri Rutt Bentch Pdf

This book is a collection of contributions by leading scholars on theoretical and contemporary problems of militant democracy. The term 'militant democracy' was first coined in 1937. In a militant democracy preventive measures are aimed, at least in practice, at restricting people who would openly contest and challenge democratic institutions and fundamental preconditions of democracy like secularism - even though such persons act within the existing limits of, and rely on the rights offered by, democracy. In the shadow of the current wars on terrorism, which can also involve rights restrictions, the overlapping though distinct problem of militant democracy seems to be lost, notwithstanding its importance for emerging and established democracies. This volume will be of particular significance outside the German-speaking world, since the bulk of the relevant literature on militant democracy is in the German language. The book is of interest to academics in the field of law, political studies and constitutionalism.

Author : Albena Yaneva,Alejandro Zaera-Polo
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781134808946

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What Is Cosmopolitical Design? Design, Nature and the Built Environment by Albena Yaneva,Alejandro Zaera-Polo Pdf

The scale of ecological crises made us realize that every kind of politics has always been cosmopolitics, politics of a cosmos. Cosmos embraces everything, including the multifarious natural and material entities that make humans act. The book examines cosmopolitics in its relation to design practice. Abandoning the modernist idea of nature as being external to the human experience - a nature that can be mastered by engineers and scientists from outside, the cosmpolitical thinking offers designers to embark in an active process of manipulating and reworking nature ’from within.’ To engage in cosmopolitics, this book argues, means to redesign, create, instigate, and compose every single feature of our common experience. In the light of this new understanding of nature, we set the questions: What is the role of design if nature is no longer salient enough to provide a background for human activities? How can we foster designers’ own force and make present what causes designers to think, feel, and act? How do designers make explicit the connection of humans to a variety of entities with different ontology: rivers, species, particles, materials and forces? How do they redefine political order by bringing together stars, prions and people? In effect, how should we understand design practice in its relation to the material and the living world? In this volume, anthropologists, science studies scholars, political scientists and sociologists rethink together the meaning of cosmopolitics for design. At the same time designers, architects and artists engage with the cosmopolitical question in trying to imagine the future of architectural and urban design. The book contains original empirical chapters and a number of revealing interviews with artists and designers whose practices set examples of ’cosmopolitically correct design’.

Author : E. Johansen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137402677

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Cosmopolitanism and Place by E. Johansen Pdf

Cosmopolitanism and Place considers the way contemporary Anglophone fiction connects global identities with the experience in local places. Looking at fiction set in metropolises, regional cities, and rural communities, this book argues that the everyday experience of these places produces forms of wide connections that emphasize social justice.

Author : Kevin M. Saylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IND:30000095216903

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The Feud 'twixt Nothing and Creation by Kevin M. Saylor Pdf

This dissertation addresses the place of politics in Keats' early verse through the first Hyperion fragment. I situate my reading of the poetry and letters within the context of Keats' historical/cultural milieu and the criticism of the past generation dealing with the issue of Keats and politics. My approach differs from that of other historicist/political approaches to Keats in that I move beyond an examination of the contemporary social and ideological connotations of Keats' prosody and imagery to look at a more direct political vision offered in his writings. The dissertation focuses on Keats' embrace and then turn from the apocalyptic longing felt by many of the leading artist of the day. I read Keats' poetry in light of the strong revival of various---often secularized---forms of millennialism which occurred in the wake of the French Revolution. I begin with the vision of a golden age presented in Keats' first two published volumes, Poems 1817 and Endymion, and on the means by which this poetry suggests such a vision is realizable. I also trace a development in the young poet's thinking on these matters from his first attempts at verse through his flirtation with progressivism in the first Hyperion. I conclude that Keats was more explicitly aware of and engaged with millennial impulses of his day than is normally realized. But I further argue that Keats gradually moved away from what he came to consider the unrealistic aspirations of apocalyptic movements until finally abandoning altogether schemes for radically altering society.

Author : Garrett Wallace Brown
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780748695508

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Kant's Cosmopolitics by Garrett Wallace Brown Pdf

This volume explores Kant's cosmopolitanism and its implications for a Kantian-inspired cosmopolitics. The contributors provide a definitive source and specification of key new areas in the field of Kantian cosmopolitanism and how it is integral to current debates in political theory, political philosophy and international relations.

Author : Soraya Nour Sckell,Damien Ehrhardt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3428184998

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Cosmos, Cosmopolitanism and Cosmopolitics Throughout History by Soraya Nour Sckell,Damien Ehrhardt Pdf