1st Edition

Books, Bodies and Bronzes Comparing Sites of Global Citizenship Creation

Edited By Peggy Levitt, Pál Nyíri Copyright 2015
152 Pages
by Routledge

152 Pages
by Routledge

144 Pages
by Routledge

One out of every seven people in the world today is on the move, voluntarily and involuntarily, within countries and between them. More and more people belong to several communities at once and yet the social contract between state and citizen is still bounded by questions of nationality. Where will the cultural building blocks come from with which we can imagine a different kind of nation, and... Read more

1. Books, bodies, and bronzes: comparing sites of global citizenship creation

Peggy Levitt and Pál Nyíri

2. Vogue and the possibility of cosmopolitics: race, health and cosmopolitan engagement in the global beauty industry

Giselinde Kuipers, Yiu Fai Chow and Elise van der Laan

3. Shifting tides of world-making in the UNESCO World Heritage Convention: cosmopolitanisms colliding

Christoph Brumann

4. Cosmopolitan theology: Fethullah Gülen and the making of a ‘Golden Generation’

Thijl Sunier

5. Globalizing forms of elite sociability: varieties of cosmopolitanism in Paris social clubs

Bruno Cousin and Sébastien Chauvin

6. Pirate cosmopolitics and the transnational consciousness of the entertainment industry

Olga Sezneva

7. Between global citizenship and Qatarization: negotiating Qatar’s new knowledge economy within American branch campuses

Neha Vora

8. Tuning in or turning off: performing emotion and building cosmopolitan solidarity in international music competitions

Lisa McCormick

Biography

Peggy Levitt is Professor of Sociology at Wellesley College, Massachusetts, USA, and the Co-Director of The Transnational Studies Initiative at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.

Pál Nyíri is Professor of Global History from an Anthropological Perspective at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.