200 Pages
by Routledge

200 Pages
by Routledge

200 Pages
by Routledge

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? Including contributions from leading figures across the humanities and social sciences, After Cosmopolitanism takes up this question as its... Read more

Introduction, Rosi Braidotti, Patrick Hanafin, Bolette Blaagaard; 1.  "Becoming-world", Rosi Braidotti;  2.  Cosmopolitanism in a Multipolar World, David Held; 3.  A Cosmopolitics of Singularities: Rights and the Thinking of Other Worlds, Patrick Hanafin; 4.  The Metaphysics of Cosmopolitanism, Costas Douzinas; 5.  The humanitarian imaginary: Reflections on cosmopolitanism and mediation, Lilie Chouliaraki; 6.  The Fantasies of Cosmopolitanism, Henrietta Moore; 7.  Postcolonialism and Cosmopolitanism: Towards a Worldly Understanding of Fascism and Europe’s Colonial Crimes, Paul Gilroy; 8.  Estrangement as Pedagogy: The Cosmopolitan Vernacular,Sneja Gunew ; 9.  Global Cosmopolitanism and Nomad Citizenship, Eugene Holland;10. Destroying Cosmopolitanism for the Sake of the Cosmos, Claire Colebrook

Biography

Rosi Braidotti is Distinguished Professor of the Humanities and the founder and director of the Centre for the Humanities at Utrecht University, Netherlands.

Patrick Hanafin is Profesor of Law at Birkbeck, University of London where he also directs the Law School’s Centre for Law and the Humanities. 

Bolette Blaagaard is Interdisciplinary Research Fellow at the Centre for Law, Justice and Journalism at City University London.

"With After Cosmopolitanism, Rosi Braidotti, Patrick Hanafin, and Bolette Blaagaard have edited a fine book that is likely to appeal to a broad readership, within and beyond the social sciences and humanities."

-Andreas Pöllmann, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico