Cosmopolitan encounters: reflexive engagements and the ethics of sharing

Plage, Stefanie; Woodward, Ian; Skrbiš, Zlatko

doi:10.1080/01419870.2016.1178788

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“…Wodak and Reisigl (2009) track the ways in which the construction and perpetuation of the nation occurs at the everyday level of discursive acts. The foregoing suggests we are beginning to see evidence of such strategies being used to talk beyond the nation, and perhaps even to challenge or deconstruct it (see Fozdar, 2017; Lamont and Aksartova, 2002; Plage et al, 2017a; Werbner, 1999).…”

Section: Cosmopolitanism and Postnationalismmentioning

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Re-imagining the world: Australians’ engagement with postnationalism, or Why the nation is the problem

Fozdar

2020

Journal of Sociology

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Academic debate around the need for global cooperation, the anachronism of national borders, and the necessity of nurturing a cosmopolitan ethic of care for all, has strengthened over the last two decades, but it is unclear the extent to which the general population has embraced such ideas. This article explores Australians’ perspectives using data from a series of projects investigating whether Australians are moving beyond national to postnational orientations and cosmopolitan identifications. Quantitative data demonstrates robust nationalism, although elements of a postnational outlook are also evident. Discursive analyses similarly suggest that while compassion towards others and openness to difference do exist, the ideology of the nation-state remains strong, with postnational formations seen as impractical, and perceptions of the rights of others limited by nationalist thinking. The best characterisation of the Australian orientation is that of multicultural nationalism, an approach that celebrates internal diversity within limits, but remains hostile to postnational material formations and global cosmopolitan ideological formations.

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Section: Cosmopolitanism and Postnationalismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Re-imagining the world: Australians’ engagement with postnationalism, or Why the nation is the problem

Fozdar

2020

Journal of Sociology

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“…Critical scholarship has attempted to rebut these impulses by relocating and redefining cosmopolitanism in different empirical contexts around the world. The emergence of “subaltern” and “everyday” cosmopolitanisms reflects the “growing eagerness to foray into small town and rural settings for compelling and intimate forms of cosmopolitanism” (Zeng, 2014, p. 138) that consider the “reflexive openness people perform to get along with each other” (Plage et al, 2017, p. 4; e.g., Gidwani, 2006; Jeffrey and McFarlane, 2008; Mitchell, 2007). These “forays” have led to a pluralisation of the discourse, with critical research identifying and explicating the multiple pathways and outcomes that can lead to becoming “cosmopolitan.” Pluralisation can, in this sense, be understood as a response to the critiques that “cosmopolitanism is too frequently defined in scalar terms, where the ‘global’ is assumed to supersede and encompass the local, regional and national” (Hörschelmann and El Refaie, 2014, p. 444), which has, as a result, produced a discourse that is “anchored on an imaginary celebration of difference” (Ho, 2011, p. 731).…”

Section: The Colonising Impulses Of Cosmopolitanismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Affective cosmopolitanisms in Singapore: Dancehall and the decolonisation of the self

Woods

2020

Trans Inst British Geog

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This paper advances a new understanding of cosmopolitanism, one that is rooted in the affective potential of the body. It argues that while the self is often projected onto the body, so too can the body play an important role in (re)imagining the self. As such, the body can decolonise the self from the mind, from the expectations of society and culture, and from the normative epistemological underpinnings of academic knowledge production. I validate these theoretical arguments through an empirical focus on the practice of dancehall in Singapore. Dancehall is an emancipatory cultural movement that emerged in Jamaica in the late 1970s, and, among other things, has become known for its sexually provocative representation of the human body. Singapore, on the other hand, is a conservative Asian city‐state in which cosmopolitan self‐fashioning is an elite, top‐down process imparted by the government and education system. By reconciling dancehall culture in/and the Singapore context, I explore how Singaporean youths forge new, more affective, forms of cosmopolitan self‐realisation. Through dancehall, they learn how to engage with the self on their own terms, and thus realise new ways of being in the world.

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“…However, more recently this philosophical approach to cosmopolitanism research was critically extended via explorations of the messy, conflicting and often unpredictable processes in response to the mobility of people and things (Phillips and Smith, 2008; Roudometof, 2012; Savage et al, 2005; Skrbiš and Woodward, 2007). One dimension of this shift has been towards empirical studies of ‘getting along’ in culturally diverse settings, focusing on concepts such as hospitality, openness and conviviality (Jones et al, 2015; Lobo, 2014, 2016; Noble, 2013; Plage et al, 2017). A proposition implicit within contemporary cosmopolitan research is that for people navigating a world characterised by diversity and multiple strangerhoods (Amin, 2013; Rumford, 2013) openness towards and knowledge of the cultural Other should not be conceived exclusively as an ethical disposition.…”

Section: Reconceiving Cosmopolitanismmentioning

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Working with difference: Cognitive schemas, ethical cosmopolitanism and negotiating cultural diversity

Høy-Petersen

Woodward

2018

International Sociology

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This article empirically explores the types and limits of ethical varieties of cosmopolitan openness by analysing in-depth interviews with a sample of professionals and volunteers ( N = 20) in culturally heterogeneous workplaces that are characterised by interpersonal interactions requiring intercultural competencies. It analyses the way people relax and harden the borders of openness around people, objects and practices they see as unfamiliar and different. Within the context of two primary schemes for deliberating the principles and schemas for acting in ways that are open to valuing difference, the article finds that the interviewees use flexible and contextually shifting categorisations of otherness and sameness that serve apparently conflicting agendas of ethical openness, self-protection, instrumentalism and parochialism. Exploring the schemas associated with these forms of everyday ethical understandings, the results show their cosmopolitan ethical practice to be performative and contextual, entangled with a variety of potentially conflicting schemas of evaluation and judgement.

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Cosmopolitan encounters: reflexive engagements and the ethics of sharing

Cited by 20 publications

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Re-imagining the world: Australians’ engagement with postnationalism, or Why the nation is the problem

Re-imagining the world: Australians’ engagement with postnationalism, or Why the nation is the problem

Affective cosmopolitanisms in Singapore: Dancehall and the decolonisation of the self

Working with difference: Cognitive schemas, ethical cosmopolitanism and negotiating cultural diversity

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