The Cosmopolitan Stranger

When all doors close: Implications of COVID-19 for cosmopolitan entrepreneurs

“…Cosmopolitans differ from other individuals in their sense of place 1 and time ( Brimm, 2010 ), and this is reflected in their life patterns, identities and behaviours as they relate to work, entrepreneurship and communication. As entrepreneurs, cosmopolitans search, identify, create and exploit business opportunities widely, and these processes are not bound to a specific geographical area ( Marotta, 2010 ). Their interests instead focus on local opportunities outside their conventional experience ( Vertovec and Cohen, 2003 ).…”

The Need for Cosmopolitan Literacy in a Global Age: Implications for Teaching Literature

“…The term is often invoked to stress the need to empathize with others who hold different beliefs. In this sense, cosmopolitanism has been described as “the human face of globalization” (Cheah, , p. 19). Dispositional: Cosmopolitanism has tended to be discussed in terms of “an orientation toward self, others, and world” (Hansen, Burdick‐Shepherd, Cammarano, & Obelleiro, , p. 587); an “outlook” that allows one “to break out of the self‐centred narcissism of the national outlook” (Beck, , p. 2); and a “state of mind or a mode of being in the world” (Marotta, , p. 112). The terms orientation , outlook , and mode of being presuppose cosmopolitanism as a character disposition.…”

Cosmopolitanism and Canadian Multicultural Policy: Intersection, relevance and critique

“…As sociological theory, cosmopolitanism focuses on the dialectic between individual agency and social structure, addressing problems such as identity and mobility (Holton, 2009). An analysis of the affinities between the stranger in sociological thought and the cosmopolitan subject is illustrative (Marotta, 2010). Sociological and historical perspectives explore and question notions of community, mobility, identity, and co-existence as moral projects in interconnecting local and global contexts, opening up to greater feelings of togetherness and mutual bonds within radically new coordinates and relationships to place and time (Back, 2009;Beck, 2002aBeck, , 2002bBeck, , 2006Cairns, 2010;Hall, 2008;Hébert et al, 2008;Hoerder et al, 2005Hoerder et al, , 2006Räthzel, 2008).…”