“…Many prominent contemporary thinkers have engaged with cosmopolitanism and related concepts (Appadurai, 2000;Appiah, 2006;Beck, 2002a;Cheah & Robbins, 1998;Mignolo, 2000Mignolo, , 2006Mignolo, , 2010Nussbaum, 2008;Parekh, 2003;Pollock et al, 2002). However, the focus of this article allows me to al-locate space for only a brief mention of some of their perspectives without fully articulating the theories of anyone in particular.…”