Political Sociologies of the Cultural Encounter: Essays on Borders, Cosmopolitanism, and Globalisation

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of contributors
Preface
Introduction: the importance of the 'cultural encounter'
Challenging boundaries in challenging times
A Political Sociology of the Cultural Encounter
Synopsis
Note
References
Part I: Encounters beyond borders
Chapter 1: What is a border comrade?
Jumping 'the pond'
Injecting the 'spatial turn' into border studies
Cosmopolitan borders
Borderwork
Seeing like a border
Coda: uncorking the spatial genie
Acknowledgements
Notes
Chapter 2: Seeing from the border with Chris Rumford: towards cosmopolitan borders and a multiperspectival border studies
Theorising borders
Global borders (borders and globalisation)
Bordering and connectivity: border spaces as cosmopolitan workshops
Studying borders differently: a multiperspectival border studies
Conclusion
References
Chapter 3: Politics of space, strangeness, and culture in the global age
Critical cosmopolitanism in the light of postmodern social theory
Borderwork and the 'cosmopolitan paradox' thesis
Strangeness and the 'cosmopolitan stranger' thesis
Towards a cosmopolitan liberation via technology and art
Some concluding remarks
References
Part II: Everyday encounters and strangeness
Chapter 4: The complex trajectories of the commoner: cosmopolitanism, localisation, and nationalism
Citizenships
Alter-globalisation, social democracy, the third way, and cosmopolitanism.
The arrival of the commoner
The alter-globalisation movement and the commoner
Social democracy and the commoner
Has the commoner a future?
References
Chapter 5: Artistic encounters with difference, aesthetic cosmopolitanism, and the political imagination
Introduction
Chris Rumford on cosmopolitan borders
Aesthetic cosmopolitanism and the cosmopolitan imagination
Imaginary ethical encounters – challenging the invisibility of the other
Spaces of encounter – cosmopolitan identities and the political imagination
Conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter 6: The story of the ship-in-a-bottle: encountering strangeness and familiarity through a globalised object
Introduction
Chapter 1 – the ship on the windowsill
Chapter 2 – the ship that was made in China
Chapter 3 – on what to do with strangeness
Notes
References
Chapter 7: Don't look back in anger: a reflection on strangeness and borders in academia
Introduction
Borders in academia
Strangeness in academia
Interdisciplinary research in academia
Conclusion
References
Part III Global studies and interdisciplinarity
Chapter 8: Europe in crises: Europe's others and other Europes from a global perspective
Introduction
Many Europes
Many others
Concluding remarks
References
Chapter 9: Globalisation: interactive and integral
A semi-autographical appraisal
'Gazing' globalisation: the role of concept-metaphors
Two dimensions: integral and interactive globalisation
The world society perspective: a comparison
Conclusions
Notes
References
Chapter 10: Cosmopolitan borders, strangeness, and inter-cultural encounters
Cross-cultural encounters
Globalisation, cultural complexity, and borders
Conclusions
References
Chapter 11: Religion and globalising processes: an investigation into the relationship between religious practices and institutions and the complex historical forms of global social change
Introduction
Globalisation and religion
Rethinking the globalising process: forms of global change
Religion and the various forms of the globalising process
Conclusion
References
Chapter 12: Challenges of globalisation and the cosmopolitan imagination: the implications of the Anthropocene
Introduction
Rethinking globalisation
Major historical transformations and the entry of the Anthropocene
New challenges: the Anthropocene, time and modernity
The Anthropocene and human time
The Anthropocene and historical time
Conclusion
Notes
References
Index