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Journal of Consumer Research, 1999
Cosmopolitanism is often heralded as a cultural orientation ideally suited to the sociocultural and economic complexities emanating from the accelerating pace of globalization. In this study, we analyze the consumption stories of expatriate professionals who are trying to enact a cosmopolitan identity.
Thompson, Craig J, Tambyah, Siok Kuan
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Cosmopolitanism is often heralded as a cultural orientation ideally suited to the sociocultural and economic complexities emanating from the accelerating pace of globalization. In this study, we analyze the consumption stories of expatriate professionals who are trying to enact a cosmopolitan identity.
Thompson, Craig J, Tambyah, Siok Kuan
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Cosmopolitan beliefs and cosmopolitan practices
Journal of Sociology, 2008The field of cosmopolitanism research, for several years the topic of a mostly theoretical elaboration, is presently on the cusp of an empirical moment where research questions are specified and answered. The dimension of this shift that is of interest to us here concerns the impact of cosmopolitanism on the individual.
Timothy Phillips, Philip Smith
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Social Philosophy and Policy, 2014
Abstract:Advocates of cosmopolitan ideals, to the extent that they engage with questions of institutional design, typically imagine replicating or refining existing, nation-state models of governance but on an international scale. This essay argues that cosmopolitan ethics need not go hand in hand with international government, and may be better served
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Abstract:Advocates of cosmopolitan ideals, to the extent that they engage with questions of institutional design, typically imagine replicating or refining existing, nation-state models of governance but on an international scale. This essay argues that cosmopolitan ethics need not go hand in hand with international government, and may be better served
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Cosmopolitan Extraterritoriality
2019This chapter argues that extraterritoriality (ET) is an important idea and practice in the contemporary world that can be a possible site of state cosmopolitan responsibility. However, it also contains a serious potential for interstate domination and the assertion of national rather than cosmopolitan interests.
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Cosmopolitan and Non-cosmopolitan Surfaces
2017In this chapter, I extend arguments regarding ‘actually existing cosmopolitanism’ by considering the skins, textures, and surface qualities of the cosmopolitan and noncosmopolitan built environment. I contend that cosmopolitan surfaces don’t need to be—as is often the case—shiny, glossy, urbane, glamorous, or expensive-looking. While there is clearly a
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Humanitarianism and cosmopolitanism
2015The exponential growth in the number of humanitarian international non-governmental organizations is 'often celebrated as an indication of growing cosmopolitanism and conscience'. This chapter outlines some of the controversies that beset the attempt to set modern humanitarianism with adequate frames of sociological and historical understanding.
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2012
At a time when social and political reality seems to move away from the practice of cosmopolitanism, whilst being in serious need of a new international framework to regulate global interaction, what are the new definitions and practices of cosmopolitanism?
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At a time when social and political reality seems to move away from the practice of cosmopolitanism, whilst being in serious need of a new international framework to regulate global interaction, what are the new definitions and practices of cosmopolitanism?
Braidotti, Rosi +2 more
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2008
Sociology was born as an attempt to delimit an object of investigation offered by society as a social reality. The ambition was that of “treating the social facts as things” (Durkheim) or of understanding and explaining the social relations by respecting an “axiological neutrality” (Max Weber).
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Sociology was born as an attempt to delimit an object of investigation offered by society as a social reality. The ambition was that of “treating the social facts as things” (Durkheim) or of understanding and explaining the social relations by respecting an “axiological neutrality” (Max Weber).
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The cosmopolitanism of the sacred
2015This chapter argues that cosmopolitanism must have some basic notions of both the cultural distinctiveness of different societies and the unity of human kind. It explains the fact that cosmopolitanism is neither new nor necessarily seculara and discusses the uneven development of cosmopolitanism over time; there is no steady and certain progression ...
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2009
This paper considers to what extent contemporary discourses on cosmopolitanism might contribute to the reading of Byron as an expatriate poet, and, more generally, to a concept of Romantic cosmopolitanism. A close reading of the "Haidee episode" in cantos 2 to 4 of Byron's Don Juan (1819-1824) focuses on languages-in-contact, foreign-language ...
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This paper considers to what extent contemporary discourses on cosmopolitanism might contribute to the reading of Byron as an expatriate poet, and, more generally, to a concept of Romantic cosmopolitanism. A close reading of the "Haidee episode" in cantos 2 to 4 of Byron's Don Juan (1819-1824) focuses on languages-in-contact, foreign-language ...
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