Cosmopolitanism: Uses of the Idea

Skrbiš, Zlatko; Woodward, Ian

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“…The notion of openness is widely used as a defining characteristic of the cosmopolitan (Inglis, 2014;Vertovec and Cohen, 2002). Skrbiš and Woodward (2013) argue that openness is 'an epistemological principle of cosmopolitanism: it limits and fixates the definitional horizon by reminding us that beyond openness lies a sphere of all things un-cosmopolitan' (p. 2). Delanty's (2006) proposition is that the cosmopolitan moment arises in the construction of identities and forms of self-understanding articulated through cultural models of world openness that accord with 'the desire to go beyond ethnocentricity and particularity' (p. 42).…”

Section: Conceptions Of Cosmopolitanism and Cosmopolitan Identitiesmentioning

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“…This means that cosmopolitan identity formation can involve embracing multiple affiliations (Appiah, 1997;Vertovec and Cohen, 2002) and that it is contingent on cultural, and social conditions, the status of the actors involved and the settings they are part of (Daskalaki, 2012;Skrbiš and Woodward, 2013). Nonetheless despite the emphasis on shared social conditions, status and settings, cosmopolitan identity formation remains understood primarily as an individual-level phenomenon (Levy et al, 2006).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Other similar conceptualizations define cosmopolitanism as a cultural repertoire and emphasize the situatedness of openness and its limitations in various ways (Hannerz, 2010;Lamont and Aksartova, 2002;Skey, 2012;Skrbiš and Woodward, 2013;Glick Schiller et al, 2011).…”

Section: Cosmopolitanism As a Cultural Identity Discoursementioning

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Imagining ‘non-nationality’: Cosmopolitanism as a source of identity and belonging

Skovgaard-Smith

Poulfelt

2017

Human Relations

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Current literature tends to see cosmopolitan identity formation as an individual endeavour of developing a stance of openness, and transcending discourses of national and other cultural identities. This article challenges the essentialism inherent in this model by proposing a different framing of cosmopolitan identity formation that shifts the focus to how people collectively mobilize cosmopolitanism as a resource for cultural identity construction. The article is based on an anthropological study of transnational professionals who are part of a diverse expatriate community in Amsterdam. The analysis shows how these professionals draw on cosmopolitanism to define themselves as 'non-nationals'. This involves downplaying national affiliations and cultural differences while also marking national identity categories and 'cultural features' to maintain the difference they collectively embrace. This however does not imply openness to all otherness. Boundary drawing to demarcate the cosmopolitan 'us' in relation to national (mono)culture is equally important.The article argues that cosmopolitan identities are socially accomplished as particular modes of collective belonging that are part of -not beyond -a global discursive sphere of identity politics.

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Section: Conceptions Of Cosmopolitanism and Cosmopolitan Identitiesmentioning

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Section: Conceptions Of Cosmopolitanism and Cosmopolitan Identitiesmentioning

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Imagining ‘non-nationality’: Cosmopolitanism as a source of identity and belonging

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Poulfelt

2017

Human Relations

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“…As Skrbiš and Woodward counsel, while such openness is an 'epistemological principle of cosmopolitanism', in some cases it may involve instead 'a form of cultural appropriation'. 36 And yet, such appropriative behaviour can also be viewed as one effect of cosmopolitan openness, as distinct from a straightforward rejection of (national) difference. While the French are undoubtedly found to be lacking in certain respects in the Journey -not least for what Sterne himself termed their samey 'civility' -Yorick is nonetheless willing to adopt from them the finer 'delicacies' that England, with its reputation for spleen and un-complaisant insolence, could still appear to lack.…”

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Peripatetic philosophy: Sterne and cosmopolitanism

Regan¹

2016

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“…La existencia empírica del cosmopolitismo, que es lo que lo hace sociológicamente interesante, reside en esta diversidad de formas posibles. El desafío para el cosmopolitismo sociológico es comprender el proceso a través del cual emerge el cosmopolitismo (véase, por ejemplo, Beck, 2006;Rendall et al, 2009;Skrbis y Woodward, 2013). En otras palabras, se trata de cómo emerge una idea normativa y se encarna en formas sociales.…”

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No todo se pierde en la traducción. Variedades mundiales de cosmopolitismo

Delanty

2015

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No todo se pierde en la traducción. Variedades mundiales de cosmopolitismo Article (Published Version) http://sro.sussex.ac.uk Delanty, Gerard (2015) No todo se pierde en la traducción. Variedades mundiales de cosmopolitismo. Papers: Revista de Sociologia, 100 (3). pp. 281-302. ISSN 2013-9004 This version is available from Sussex Research Online: http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/57764/ This document is made available in accordance with publisher policies and may differ from the published version or from the version of record. If you wish to cite this item you are advised to consult the publisher's version. Please see the URL above for details on accessing the published version. Copyright and reuse:Sussex Research Online is a digital repository of the research output of the University.Copyright and all moral rights to the version of the paper presented here belong to the individual author(s) and/or other copyright owners. To the extent reasonable and practicable, the material made available in SRO has been checked for eligibility before being made available.Copies of full text items generally can be reproduced, displayed or performed and given to third parties in any format or medium for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-profit purposes without prior permission or charge, provided that the authors, title and full bibliographic details are credited, a hyperlink and/or URL is given for the original metadata page and the content is not changed in any way. ISSN 2013-9004 (digital); ISSN 0210-2862 (paper) Papers 2015, 100/3 http://dx.doi.org/10.5565/rev/papers.2204 281-302No todo se pierde en la traducción. Variedades mundiales de cosmopolitismo* Gerard DelantyUniversity of Sussex g.delanty@sussex.ac.uk ResumenUn importante desafío de los muchos que hoy se plantean al pensamiento cosmopolita es el problema de la traducción conceptual y cultural, puesto que el cosmopolitismo puede ser altamente relevante para ciertos desarrollos del pensamiento indio y chino, incluso cuando no se utiliza el mismo término en las fuentes o interpretaciones. Se abordan tres problemas, a saber: las posiciones universalistas versus las contextualistas; el eurocentrismo, y el problema de las traducciones conceptuales y culturales entre el pensamiento occidental y el no occidental. El argumento central es que el pensamiento cosmopolita debe expandirse más allá de su genealogía occidental para incluir otras tradiciones. Sin embargo, la solución no pasa simplemente por identificar aquellas tradiciones culturales alternativas a las occidentales que puedan contener distintos tipos de valores cosmopolitas, sino por encontrar, en estas distintas tradiciones culturales, recursos para una cosmopolítica. De esta forma, el cosmopolitismo crítico busca plantear una alternativa tanto a las posiciones contextualistas fuertes como a las posiciones universalistas fuertes.Palabras clave: Asia; cosmopolitismo chino; cosmopolitismo; eurocentrismo; historia global; poscolonialismo; traducción cultural; universalismo. Abstract. Not All is Lost...

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Cosmopolitanism: Uses of the Idea

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Imagining ‘non-nationality’: Cosmopolitanism as a source of identity and belonging

Imagining ‘non-nationality’: Cosmopolitanism as a source of identity and belonging

Peripatetic philosophy: Sterne and cosmopolitanism

No todo se pierde en la traducción. Variedades mundiales de cosmopolitismo

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