Cosmopolitan Modernity: Everyday Imaginaries and the Register of Difference

Nava, M.

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“…(Vieten 2011) Only ten years ago academics were optimistic about the potential of cultural cosmopolitanism to deepen the political European Union project, epitomized in intraEuropean cross-border mobility. Early critique of mainstream cosmopolitanism was put forward across different disciplinary fields, by scholars such as Cheah and Robbins (1998;Cheah 2006) by feminist academics such as Nava (2002Nava ( , 2006; see also Kofman 2005) and post-colonial voices such as Mignolo (2000Mignolo ( , 2002; see also Nwanko, 2005). Cultural theorists such as Clifford (1992, p. 108) stressed the need to avoid 'the excessive localism of particularistic cultural relativism as well as the overly global vision of capitalist or technocratic monoculture'.…”

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Europe is for being recognized for more than an ethnic background” : middle class British, Dutch and German minority citizens’ perspectives on EU citizenship and belonging to Europe’

Vieten

2018

CCS Journal

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The paper pinpoints some crucial themes of European belonging arising in the narratives of minority key activists with various hyphened legal national citi-zenship status, e.g. South Asian Brits, Moroccan-Dutch and Turkish/ Kurd-ish-Germans. The interviews capture how visible minorities’ perspectives on European belonging are influenced by structural racism, but also by national-ly specific discourses of symbolic inclusion or exclusion of ethnic minorities respectively. In this original research project in total 43 key minority activists, men and women and all of middle class social status were interviewed between au-tumn 2009 and summer 2012, e.g. pre-Brexit, in Britain, the Netherlands and Germany. The findings of the study underline ambivalent post-cosmopolitan identities and more contradictory notions of ‘race’ and ‘ethnicity in Britain and the Netherlands, due to specific colonial / post-colonial contexts, and a different use of these categories in Britain and the rest of Europe. The minor-ity citizens interviewed in Germany expressed a more troubled position here as their relationship to the European Union is influenced by their feelings of belonging to Turkey, the latter outside the EU and at the border of Europe. As the ‘new’ citizens interviewed in this sample live in major cities, such as London, Berlin and Amsterdam, individual feelings of belonging to Europe, perceptions of being European and cosmopolitan were very much shaped by the concrete city spaces and a positive identification with metropolitan urban identity.

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Europe is for being recognized for more than an ethnic background” : middle class British, Dutch and German minority citizens’ perspectives on EU citizenship and belonging to Europe’

Vieten

2018

CCS Journal

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“…Recent authors (Regev, 2007;Papastergiadis, 2007;Chaney, 2002;Nava, 2002) have advocated the idea of an "aesthetic" or "cultural" cosmopolitanism, located "at the individual level", and explained as a "cultural disposition involving an intellectual and aesthetic stance of openness towards peoples, places and experiences from different cultures, especially those from different "nations" (…) or as having taste for "the wider shores of cultural experience" (Regev, 2007: 124). It is an interpretation of cosmopolitanism as a subjective reality, as a "form of consciousness" that involves a paradigm shift.…”

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Is Cosmopolitanism a Feasible Paradigm for Understanding Modern Art? A Methodological Proposal

Maftei

2014

Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences

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“…The cosmopolitans we are drawn to in social science research are often globally migrant figures traversing in apparently evenly globalized communication, transport and cultural networks (Binnie and Skeggs 2004). Formulations of a 'cosmopolitan identity' remain Eurocentric and the historical trajectory of the cosmopolitan imagination and vernacular expressions in everyday local life and culture have, on the whole, been neglected (Nava 2002).…”

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Postcolonial migrations

Mains¹,

Gilmartin²,

Cullen³

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Social & Cultural Geography

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In this commentary, we argue for the relevance and importance of postcolonial theory to the study of migration and mobility. Building on a panel discussion at the 2009 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, we highlight a number of different ways in which this could take place. We suggest three possible interventions: stretching the boundaries of the spaces of the postcolonial; interrogating the spatial connections that are forged between disparate places through migration; and challenging singular or hierarchical notions of identity and/or place. In these ways, we conclude that postcolonial theory can complicate and enhance our understanding of migration, and that attention to migration research could, in turn, facilitate a 'social turn' for postcolonial geographies.

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Cosmopolitan Modernity: Everyday Imaginaries and the Register of Difference

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Cited by 41 publications

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Europe is for being recognized for more than an ethnic background” : middle class British, Dutch and German minority citizens’ perspectives on EU citizenship and belonging to Europe’

Europe is for being recognized for more than an ethnic background” : middle class British, Dutch and German minority citizens’ perspectives on EU citizenship and belonging to Europe’

Is Cosmopolitanism a Feasible Paradigm for Understanding Modern Art? A Methodological Proposal

Postcolonial migrations

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