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Mobility and Cosmopolitanism

Complicating the interaction between aspiration and practice

Vered Amit editor Pauline Gardiner Barber editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:18th Oct '16

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In academic descriptions of cosmopolitanism, one particularly important distinction often recurs. Specifically, scholars have been concerned to distinguish between cosmopolitanism as a set of mundane practices and/or competences on the one hand and cosmopolitanism as a cultivated form of consciousness or moral aspiration on the other. For anthropologists whose ethnographic studies reveal many different expressions of cosmopolitanism, this distinction between aspiration and practice can often be quite ambiguous. Thisbook therefore brings together five contributions from anthropologists who are reporting on encounters and aspirations that reveal different forms of spatial mobility, scales of commitment or risk, and are often transient, ambivalent and precarious. These are circumstances in which cosmopolitanism emerges as uneven and partial rather than as a comprehensive or unequivocal transformation of practice and outlook.

This book was originally published as a special issue of Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power.

ISBN: 9781138200531

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 294g

106 pages