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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 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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2016
Edith Wharton’s war literature reflects her attentiveness to the material culture of France and its powerful embodiment of intercultural exchange across centuries and cultures. In Wharton’s two major World War I texts, her earliest essays in Fighting France, from Dunkerque to Belfort (1915) and her final war novel, A Son at the Front (1923), material ...
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Edith Wharton’s war literature reflects her attentiveness to the material culture of France and its powerful embodiment of intercultural exchange across centuries and cultures. In Wharton’s two major World War I texts, her earliest essays in Fighting France, from Dunkerque to Belfort (1915) and her final war novel, A Son at the Front (1923), material ...
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2017
Fernández de Alba’s chapter presents a synthesis of cosmopolitanism and nationalism by examining the works of Virgilio Piñera and Wifredo Lam, two cosmopolitans sui generis, who participated in the construction of a national Cuban culture. Cosmopolitanism and nationalism are often presented either as an absolute form of universality or as an ...
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Fernández de Alba’s chapter presents a synthesis of cosmopolitanism and nationalism by examining the works of Virgilio Piñera and Wifredo Lam, two cosmopolitans sui generis, who participated in the construction of a national Cuban culture. Cosmopolitanism and nationalism are often presented either as an absolute form of universality or as an ...
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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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Cosmopolitans, cosmopolitanism, and human flourishing
2005Debates about equality tend to take as their context the relations among citizens in a single society. Yet problems of inequality obviously go beyond a particular territory or country. The greatest equality gaps are no longer, as they were a hundred years ago, between rich and poor persons within a country, but between rich and poor peoples: problems ...
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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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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?
Braidotti, Rosi +2 more
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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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