Cosmopolitan Connections

Author : Mark Anthony Falzon
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047406036
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cosmopolitan Connections written by Mark Anthony Falzon and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2004-09-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This accessible book draws on anthropological fieldwork conducted in a number of sites to explore the relation between mobility, cosmopolitanism, and commerce. It is pioneering in that it looks at Sindhis, a widespread group that has so far been largely ignored by anthopologists.

Author : Mark-Anthony Falzon
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004140085
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cosmopolitan Connections written by Mark-Anthony Falzon and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2004 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This accessible book draws on anthropological fieldwork conducted in a number of sites to explore the relation between mobility, cosmopolitanism, and commerce. It is pioneering in that it looks at Sindhis, a widespread group that has so far been largely ignored by anthopologists.

Author : Ulf Hannerz
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134764154
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transnational Connections written by Ulf Hannerz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-01-04 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work provides an account of culture in an age of globalization. Ulf Hannerz argues that, in an ever-more interconnected world, national understandings of culture have become insufficient. He explores the implications of boundary-crossings and long-distance cultural flows for established notions of "the local", "community", "nation" and "modernity" Hannerz not only engages with theoretical debates about culture and globalization but raises issues of how we think and live today. His account of the experience of global culture encompasses a shouting match in a New York street about Salman Rushdie, a papal visit to the Maya Indians; kung-fu dancers in Nigeria and Rastafarians in Amsterdam; the nostalgia of foreign correspondents; and the surprising experiences of tourists in a world city or on a Borneo photo safari.

Author : Cecilia Bailliet
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1136741380
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cosmopolitan Justice and Its Discontents written by Cecilia Bailliet and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2011-04 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cosmopolitan Justice and its Discontents provides a multidisciplinary perspective on the legal and ethical implications of cosmopolitanism.

Author : Leonie Wolters
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350373168
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cosmopolitan Elites and the Making of Globality written by Leonie Wolters and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-01-11 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As ideologies such as communism, fascism and various nationalisms vied for global domination during the first half of the 20th century, this book shows how a specific group of individuals - a cosmopolitan elite - became representatives of those ideologies the world over. Centering on the Indian intellectual M.N Roy, Cosmopolitan Elites and the Making of Globality situates his life within various social circles that covered several ideological realms and continents. An example of an individual who represented ideologies such as anticolonial nationalism, communism and humanism, Roy is identified as unusual but by no means singular in this capacity, and shows how other elites were similarly able to represent ideologies that sought to make the world anew. This book explores how Roy and his peers and competitors became a political elite as they cultivated a cosmopolitan reputation that meant they were taken seriously even when speaking of regions outside of their own. By considering the social and performative practices that turned them into credible, global, cosmopolitans, Wolters uncovers the exclusive basis on which the universal claims of world-changing ideologies were made.

Author : E. Johansen
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137402679
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cosmopolitanism and Place written by E. Johansen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Ethan Zuckerman
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393240622
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Digital Cosmopolitans: Why We Think the Internet Connects Us, Why It Doesn't, and How to Rewire It written by Ethan Zuckerman and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “One of our most important books on globalization.” —Steve O’Keefe, New York Journal of Books The enormous scope of the Internet can lead us to assume that as the online community grows, our world grows smaller and more cosmopolitan. In Digital Cosmopolitans, Ethan Zuckerman explains why the technological ability to communicate with someone does not guarantee human interaction or the healthy exchange of information and ideas. Combining the latest psychological and sociological research with current trends both online and off, Digital Cosmopolitans highlights the challenges we face and the headway being made in creating a world that is truly connected.

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004257233
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sikh Diaspora written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-08-29 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sikh Diaspora: Theory, Agency, and Experience is a collection of essays offering new insights into the diverse experiences of Sikhs beyond the Punjab. Moving beyond migration history and global in their scope, the essays in this volume draw from a range of methodological approaches to engage with diaspora theory, agency, space, social relations, and aesthetics. Rich in substantive content, these essays offer critical reflections on the concept of diaspora, and insight into key features of Sikh experience including memory, citizenship, political engagement, architecture, multiculturalism, gender, literature, oral history, kirtan, economics, and marriage.

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004512985
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heritage, Contested Sites, and Borders of Memory in the Asia Pacific written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-10-09 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contests over heritage in Asia are intensifying and reflect the growing prominence of political and social disputes over historical narratives shaping heritage sites and practices, and the meanings attached to them. These contests emphasize that heritage is a means of narrating the past that demarcates, constitutes, produces, and polices political and social borders in the present. In its spaces, varied intersections of actors, networks, and scales of governance interact, negotiate and compete, resulting in heritage sites that are cut through by borders of memory. This volume, edited by Edward Boyle and Steven Ivings, and with contributions from scholars across the humanities, history, social sciences, and Asian studies, interrogates how particular actors and narratives make heritage and how borders of memory shape the sites they produce.

Author : Charles Taylor
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674284364
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dilemmas and Connections written by Charles Taylor and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-07 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are, always, more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in oneÕs philosophyÑand in these essays Charles Taylor turns to those things not fully imagined or avenues not wholly explored in his epochal A Secular Age. Here Taylor talks in detail about thinkers who are his allies and interlocutors, such as Iris Murdoch, Alasdair MacIntyre, Robert Brandom, and Paul Celan. He offers major contributions to social theory, expanding on the issues of nationalism, democratic exclusionism, religious mobilizations, and modernity. And he delves even more deeply into themes taken up in A Secular Age: the continuity of religion from the past into the future; the nature of the secular; the folly of hoping to live by Òreason aloneÓ; and the perils of moralism. He also speculates on how irrationality emerges from the heart of rationality itself, and why violence breaks out again and again. In A Secular Age, Taylor more evidently foregrounded his Catholic faith, and there are several essays here that further explore that faith. Overall, this is a hopeful book, showing how, while acknowledging the force of religion and the persistence of violence and folly, we nonetheless have the power to move forward once we have given up the brittle pretensions of a narrow rationalism.