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Decolonizing Cosmopolitanism in Practice : From Universalizing Monologue to Intercultural Dialogue? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
There has been a veritable upsurge in the debate on cosmopolitanism not merely as a philosophical ideal but also as a socially grounded concept denoting an individual or collective stance towards world openness.
Leinius, Johanna
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Filtered, yet not homogenised: Urbanisation does not lead to cross‐city convergence in Mexican urban bird communities

open access: yesJournal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.
Urbanisation simplifies bird communities, but does not necessarily make urban avifaunas alike. Across three biogeographically distinct Mexican cities, urban bird assemblages remained regionally distinct despite strong local filtering. These results challenge assumptions of urban‐driven homogenisation and emphasise the dominant role of regional species ...
Ian MacGregor‐Fors   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Crippin’ the Flâneur: Cosmopolitanism, and landscapes of tolerance

open access: yes, 2010
Cosmopolitanism, desire and the contracting of social relationships areenduring themes in both philosophy and social theory. In this paper I seek toexplore these themes in order to ascertain what they might mean to disabled people and the ethos of ...
Campbell, Fiona Kumari
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Racial Discourse and Cosmopolitanism in Twentieth-Century African American Writing

open access: yes
This book engages cosmopolitanism-a critical mode which moves beyond cultural pluralism by simultaneously privileging difference and commonality-in order to examine its particular deployment in the work of several African American writers.
Friedel, Tania.
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Ed Davey's Tory Removals: The Liberal Democrats and the 2024 General Election

open access: yesThe Political Quarterly, Volume 96, Issue 1, Page 83-90, January/March 2025.
Abstract The 2024 general election represented a remarkable comeback for the Liberal Democrats. Less than a decade on from the coalition and the 2015 election debacle, Sir Ed Davey's party reclaimed third‐party status in the House of Commons with seventy‐two MPs—the largest total for the Liberal Democrats or their Liberal Party predecessors since the ...
Peter Sloman
wiley   +1 more source

Fragmented and Dealigned: The 2024 British General Election and the Rise of Place‐Based Politics

open access: yesThe Political Quarterly, Volume 96, Issue 1, Page 13-25, January/March 2025.
Abstract While the outcome of the 2024 British general election signalled a resounding repudiation of the incumbent government—returning a 231‐seat swing from the Conservatives to Labour—it did not radically overturn the geography of electoral outcomes in England and Wales.
Will Jennings   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Chinese Cosmopolitanism and the System of Higher Education in 1970-2000

open access: yesRUDN journal of Sociology, 2011
The article defines cosmopolitanism in China through the prisms of nationalism, multiculturalism and consumerism. This definition makes it possible to better understand the proliferation of interactive, or high-quality, cosmopolitanism through the ...
A V Sidorova
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The Grammar of Race: British Fascism, Racial Nationalism and the Rise of Reform UK

open access: yesThe Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article brings histories of British fascism and the Black Radical Tradition into conversation with the study of contemporary British politics to offer a race‐critical analysis of Reform UK's rise. Drawing on race‐critical scholarship and Black Radical analyses of fascism, it argues that Reform UK is the latest formation of a distinctively
Kian Aspinall
wiley   +1 more source

Encountering ‘Broken’ Public Services: Defiance and Disaffection at the Frontlines of the Democratic State

open access: yesThe Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract The apparently parlous state of public services in advanced liberal democracies has become a hot topic, nowhere more so than in ‘broken Britain’. Indeed, there is much debate in both politics scholarship and political rhetoric about the nature and causes of this decline, and its potential remedies. All perspectives are at pains to characterise
John Boswell
wiley   +1 more source

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