Negotiations of the 'New World' : The Omnipresence of 'Global' as a Political Phenomenon

Selchow, Sabine

doi:10.26530/oapen_627660

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“…Indeed, I suggest that a post-structural approach is particularly well equipped for the empirical exploration of the 'cosmopolitan world' because, as one might say, it is a manifestation of 'organized unconventionality', which differs from the 'old theories and customary ways of thinking' that Beck (1992) sought to escape. As proposed above, it is about the scholarly discovery of the unexpected (see also Selchow 2017).…”

Section: Post-structural Premises and Beck's Storymentioning

confidence: 95%

“…In other words, we should see them as decisions grounded in modern institutions like the nation-state or market, and in basic modern principles such as freedom, market dependence, rationality, progress, statehood, and accountability (Beck 2012). Beck (2009) uses the term 'global risk' to describe these unintended consequences -a term that does not refer to a specific kind of risk but that questions the modern tool 'risk' (Blok and Selchow 2017;Selchow 2014Selchow , 2017. In Beck's story, it is not only that it is impossible to imagine potential consequences as being 'socially delimited in space' but that it is also impossible to imagine them as being 'socially delimited in time' (Beck and Grande 2007: 418).…”

Section: Post-structural Premises and Beck's Storymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Starting somewhere different: methodological cosmopolitanism and the study of world politics

Selchow

2019

Global Networks

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In this article, I contribute to the debate on Ulrich Beck's idea of 'methodological cosmopolitanism' from a political science perspective. How fruitful is Beck's idea for the study of world politics? How can a political science perspective turn 'methodological cosmopolitanism' into a more transdisciplinary subject of debate? Guided by these questions, I speak to two audiences. First, I offer political scientists a distinct strategy for empirical 'cosmopolitan political science' research. At the heart of this strategy is a novel object of research, the 'cosmopolitan outlook', understood as a discourse that breaks with the 'national outlook' to open possibilities for a world beyond 'reflexive modernization'. With that, I shift the perspective from structure to discourse and broaden the normative grounds on which to assess cosmopolitan reality. Rather than just considering the emergence of normative cosmopolitan ideals, I build into cosmopolitan research the normative, empirical question of whether we see an emergence of a world beyond reflexive modernization. Second, I address scholars outside the field of political science who are interested in methodological cosmopolitanism by offering the 'cosmopolitan outlook' as a novel object of study that could also be explored from other disciplinary perspectives and by proposing they put the question of the purpose of methodological cosmopolitanism centre stage. This question can, I argue, constitute grounds for substantial debates on methodological cosmopolitanism not already precluded through disciplinary premises and concerns. Contributing to such a transdisciplinary debate, I distinguish between the long-term and immediate purpose of methodological cosmopolitanism, the former being about the development of a cosmopolitan language and grammar and the latter about empirical explorations of the reality of the 'cosmopolitan outlook', eventually and in a collective and transdisciplinary endeavour building up to contribute to the former.

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Section: Post-structural Premises and Beck's Storymentioning

confidence: 95%

Section: Post-structural Premises and Beck's Storymentioning

confidence: 99%