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United in Discontent : Local Responses to Cosmopolitanism and Globalization / ed. by Elisabeth Kirtsoglou, Dimitrios Theodossopoulos.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2009]Copyright date: ©2010Description: 1 online resource (194 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781845456306
  • 9781845459659
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  • 306
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- 1 Introduction: United in Discontent -- 2 Shifting Centres, Tense Peripheries: Indigenous Cosmopolitanisms -- 3 Sabili and Indonesian Muslim Resistance to Cosmopolitanism -- 4 The Cosmopolitan and the Noumenal: A Case Study of Islamic Jihadist Night Dreams as Reported Sources of Spiritual and Political Inspiration -- 5 Intimacies of Anti-globalization: Imagining Unhappy Others as Oneself in Greece -- 6 Escaping the ‘Modern’ Excesses of Japanese Life: Critical Voices on Japanese Rural Cosmopolitanism -- 7 Two Sides of the Same Coin? World Citizenship and Local Crisis in Argentina -- 8 Hegemonic, Subaltern and Anthropological Cosmopolitics -- 9 Conclusion: United in Discontent -- Notes on Contributors -- Index
Summary: Cosmopolitanism is often discussed in a critical and disapproving manner: as a concept complicit with the interests of the powerful, or as a notion related to Western political supremacy, the ills of globalization, inequality, and capitalist economic penetration. Seen as the moral justification for embracing or tolerating cultural difference, ethnically and socially diverse communities unenthusiastic with change, develop an acknowledgement of their common position vis-à-vis a western, “universal” political point of view. By means of exploring the idiosyncratic form of political intimacy generated by anti-cosmopolitanism, and assuming an analytical and critical stance towards the concepts of parochialism and localism, this volume examines the political consciousness of such negatively predisposed actors, and it attempts to explain their reservation towards the sincerity of international politics, their reliance on conspiracy theories or nationalist narratives, their introversion.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- 1 Introduction: United in Discontent -- 2 Shifting Centres, Tense Peripheries: Indigenous Cosmopolitanisms -- 3 Sabili and Indonesian Muslim Resistance to Cosmopolitanism -- 4 The Cosmopolitan and the Noumenal: A Case Study of Islamic Jihadist Night Dreams as Reported Sources of Spiritual and Political Inspiration -- 5 Intimacies of Anti-globalization: Imagining Unhappy Others as Oneself in Greece -- 6 Escaping the ‘Modern’ Excesses of Japanese Life: Critical Voices on Japanese Rural Cosmopolitanism -- 7 Two Sides of the Same Coin? World Citizenship and Local Crisis in Argentina -- 8 Hegemonic, Subaltern and Anthropological Cosmopolitics -- 9 Conclusion: United in Discontent -- Notes on Contributors -- Index

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Cosmopolitanism is often discussed in a critical and disapproving manner: as a concept complicit with the interests of the powerful, or as a notion related to Western political supremacy, the ills of globalization, inequality, and capitalist economic penetration. Seen as the moral justification for embracing or tolerating cultural difference, ethnically and socially diverse communities unenthusiastic with change, develop an acknowledgement of their common position vis-à-vis a western, “universal” political point of view. By means of exploring the idiosyncratic form of political intimacy generated by anti-cosmopolitanism, and assuming an analytical and critical stance towards the concepts of parochialism and localism, this volume examines the political consciousness of such negatively predisposed actors, and it attempts to explain their reservation towards the sincerity of international politics, their reliance on conspiracy theories or nationalist narratives, their introversion.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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