Whose Cosmopolitanism? ― Critical Perspectives, Relationalities and Discontents

Schiller, Irving and their contributors place as their starting point for establishing an on-going cross-disciplinary discussion on the role of contemporary cosmopolitanism as the concerns and contradictions in the world--crisis, war, displacement, and migration in a period of global interconnection. They put aside universalism and take on the question of differential and situated power and resultant differences and inequities and ask further where, when, how, and whether. There are 20 chapters divided into two parts: the question of “Whose Cosmopolitanism?" Provocations and responses; the questions of where, when, how and whether: towards a processional situated Cosmopolitanism. Subdivisions are: encounters, landscapes and displacements; cinema, literature and the social imagination; endless war on domains of sociability? Conflict, instabilities and aspirations. Annotation c2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

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).