Can the global South take over the baton? What cosmopolitanism in ‘unlikely’ places means for future world order

Webb, Adam K.

doi:10.1080/01436597.2016.1139448

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“…The findings of these kinds of studies are often surprising and provide substance for further reflection on the legitimacy of alternative global order models. Some empirical studies for instance illuminated significant support for cosmopolitan global order reform in the Global South (Webb, 2016). Broad global surveys could also be conducted on staggered annual or biannual regular intervals across a WOMP 2.0 study, generating information feedback loops from research outputs and global order trends.…”

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Revisiting the World Order Models Project: A Case for Renewal?

McKeil

2022

Global Policy

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Alternative world order proposals offered by scholars and philosophers have never been adopted in their entirety, but they have at times proven inspirational for statespersons and populations in eras of international crisis and reordering. In the strained context of the Cold War, the World Order Models Project, also known as WOMP, sought to explore alternative world order models able to realize a more stable and just peace. Gathering a transnational network of public intellectual scholars, WOMP formed by far the largest and most ambitious research project of its kind in the history of the field, producing a large body of literature across three decades (

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Revisiting the World Order Models Project: A Case for Renewal?

McKeil

2022

Global Policy

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“…The data analysed here were collected in a three-country survey on university student opinion in the Global South. Alongside the Arab Spring, the 47-question survey also included two other themes analysed elsewhere: the rise of China, and long-term global integration (Webb, 2016).…”

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Resonance of the Arab Spring: Solidarities and youth opinion in the Global South

Webb

2017

International Political Science Review

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The Arab Spring exemplifies to many a kind of globalisation from below. It cuts across borders and challenges liberal and technocratic élites. But how far does its global resonance really go? Are publics still largely corralled within national political spaces? Are waves of revolt confined by civilisational breakwaters? Or is the cosmopolitan space that many leftists envision taking shape? Based on a three-country survey of university students, this article probes these assumptions. It finds far-reaching solidarity with the aspirations of the Arab Spring, driven by the rise of a cross-border global society. But on probing the bases of such solidarity, it also finds that the cosmopolitan cohort emerging in the Global South does not fit a simple liberal or leftist mould. The Arab Spring resonates on multiple frequencies at the same time. This complex cosmopolitanism has implications for layers of common ground as global political opportunity structures emerge.

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“…2. Webb points out that cosmopolitanism can and have emerged in diverse places, including the rural areas linked by far-reaching networks of cross-border 'global villages', missionary activities, and international solidarity of workers that some western analysts viewed as unlikely places of cosmopolitan interactions (Webb, 2016(Webb, : 1021. Webb, however, discusses these critical assessments to project a possible scenario wherein the states and civil society of the Global South stepping on the challenge of leading a reconstituting of a new global order that ushers in a kind of cosmopolitanism from below.…”

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“…He raises these issues in the context of growing evidence of openness and flexibility of the constituencies of the Global South to the ideals of global governance and freedom of movement compared with tightening public acceptance of more liberal flow of people and greater responsibility to global institutions of governance in northern and more affluent countries. Amid resistance of the wealthier states to more liberal migration flows, south-south cross-border movements are far greater in reality, making it possible to imagine the Global South 'taking the baton' in building new institutions of global solidarity (Webb, 2016(Webb, : 1019). Webb's notion of cosmopolitanism in unlikely places while nuance, however, pertains mainly to possible forms of nation state relations.…”

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Re-visioning obscure spaces

Canuday

2018

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In popular imagery, the littorals of Sulu and Zamboanga conjure visions of pirates, terrorists, and bandits marauding its rough seas, open shores, and rugged mountains. These bleak accounts render the region nothing but a violent and peripheral southern Philippine backdoor inconspicuous to the sophisticated constituencies of the world’s metropolitan centres. Obscured from these imageries are the lasting cosmopolitan traits of openness, flexibility, and reception of local folk to trans-local cultural streams that marked Sulu and Zamboanga as a globalised space across the ages and oceans. The distinctive features of these cosmopolitan sensibilities are strikingly discernible in inter-generationally shared narratives, artefacts, and performances that were continually renewed from the days when Sulu and Zamboanga served as a borderless trading and cultural enclave nestled at the crossroads of the Pacific and the Indian Oceans. These enduring cosmopolitan sensibilities are embodied in the blending, among others, of the time-honoured dance of pangalay and the pop-musical dance genre celebrated on actual, analogue, and digitally-mediated spaces of the contemporary world. Furthermore, these embodied sensibilities are evident in song compositions that proclaim the humanistic themes of hope, peace, and prosperity to their place and the world in ways that exemplify the local people’s broader sense of connections beyond the narrow association of family, community, ethnicity, religion, and identity. This mixed bag of age-old and recent imaginaries and cultural traffic evoke a sociality that link the social spaces of the troubled but once and current globalised region to continuing acts of transcendence in history, memory, and visions of the future. In these marginalized places, we can see an unyielding tradition of cultural re-adaptation and creativity made up of myriad everyday acts that are down-to-earth, pragmatic, interstitial, and practical cosmopolitanism.

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Can the global South take over the baton? What cosmopolitanism in ‘unlikely’ places means for future world order

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Revisiting the World Order Models Project: A Case for Renewal?

Revisiting the World Order Models Project: A Case for Renewal?

Resonance of the Arab Spring: Solidarities and youth opinion in the Global South

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