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Cosmopolitanism and empire : universal rulers, local elites, and cultural integration in the ancient Near East and Mediterranean /

, 2016
Machine generated contents note: -- Table of Contents -- List of contributors -- 1. Cosmopolitan Politics: The Assimilation and Subordination of Elite Cultures -- Myles Lavan, Richard Payne, John Weisweiler -- 2.
Payne, Richard E.(viaf)103582487, Weisweiler, John,edt, Lavan, Myles(viaf)255727708edt   +2 more
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Identity Impermanence as a Generic Social Process: The Malleability of Gender in Transgender and Nonbinary People's Lives

Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
Drawing on 40 in‐depth interviews with transgender and nonbinary people, we found that respondents' gender identities or displays shifted day‐by‐day and audience‐by‐audience. The first describes respondents shifting their identities and displays based on feeling their way through gender while the latter describes feeling out an audience.
Stef M. Shuster, Andrew Kirks‐Cler
wiley   +1 more source

The Meanings of Cosmopolitanism in the ‘First Hebrew City’: Zionism, Migration, and Modern Metropolitan Culture in Tel Aviv-Jaffa, 1909-1936

Mobile Culture Studies. The Journal
This article traces the history of Tel Aviv(-Jaffa)’s projection as a ‘cosmopolitan’ city. It defines cosmopolitanism and charts out different layers of meaning it has acquired over time, dividing these into ‘ethnonational,’ ‘imperial,’ and ‘post ...
Remer, Felicitas
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Re-casting the wild: mapping "Islamic Cosmopolitanism" in urban Aceh

, 2015
Early modern Aceh has been characterised in written and spatial histories typically as a composite territory of warring fiefdoms comprised of local militia in addition to European powers exploiting the perceived anarchy.
Nichols, J.
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“Anytime, Anywhere”: Online Language Tutoring Platforms and the Rise of the (Im)Mobile Language Teacher

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how online tutoring platforms (OTPs) have facilitated new forms of (im)mobility—and discourses of (im)mobility—among online English tutors. Drawing on semi‐structured interviews with online tutors, the article critically interrogates OTPs' primary selling point: that online tutors can work “anytime, anywhere.” While OTPs ...
Nate Ming Curran
wiley   +1 more source

Aspiring Cosmopolitans:

This book explores one of the largest, complex, and intractable humanitarian emergencies today: the Syrian displacement crisis (2012–present). More than five million Syrian refugees live in fragile Middle East states – mostly in urban areas. Large sections of the Syrian refugee population are confined indefinitely, and many survive in the impoverished ...
Bryant, Rebecca, Habash, Dunya
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Contested Cosmopolitanism

, 2014
A growing body of literature is accumulating around theories of cosmopolitanism. The concept is hotly debated within a number of disciplines, and similar debates circulate beyond academia, among national and transnational actors.
Pieri, Elisa, Pieri, E
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Hellenistic Cosmopolitanism

, 2012
This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction Socratic Roots of Cosmopolitanism Stoic Cosmopolitanism Epicurean Cosmopolitanism The Importance of Hellenistic Cosmopolitanism ...
Brown, Eric, Eric Brown
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“Your English Sounds Almost British”: Everyday Linguicism and Racialized Subjectivity of an International Student in Hong Kong

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how everyday linguicism and racism shape the academic and social experiences of international students in Hong Kong, focusing on the racialized subjectivity of a South Asian graduate student. Although research on international students has mainly focused on Western higher education, little attention has been paid to the ...
Pramod K. Sah
wiley   +1 more source

The Cosmopolitan Utopia [PDF]

Revista CIDOB d'Afers Internacionals, 2008
After examining the progressive transformations of cosmopolitanism in history, the author presents contemporary cosmopolitanism as a methodological concept that must respond to the challenge raised by the process of increasing interdependence and ...
Burhan Ghalioun
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