Transcultural affinity: thoughts on the emergent cosmopolitan imagination in South Africa

Doing Digital Migration Studies:

“…Mobility is thus reconceptualized as not just physical, but also digital, which opens cosmopolitan practice up to new areas of analysis. Cosmopolitanism from below-and by extension, digital cosmopolitanism-is not synonymous with the travel exploits of normative cosmopolitanism since one can be cosmopolitan without leaving their birthplace and within contexts of stasis; all that is needed is "a fundamental openness to otherness … rooted in the imagination" (Eze, 2015). Cosmopolitanism from below, therefore, opens itself up to the possibilities of "solidarities from below" whereby individuals and groups from different parts of the world form political alliances of a networked character, featuring thick global social relations.…”