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.
Table of Content
Preface
Chapter 1. Introduction: United in Discontent
Dimitrios Theodossopoulos
Chapter 2. Shifting Centres, Tense Peripheries: Indigenous Cosmopolitanisms
Andrew Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart
Chapter 3. Sabili and Indonesian Muslim Resistance to Cosmopolitanism
C.W. Watson
Chapter 4. The Cosmopolitan and the Noumenal: A Case Study of Islamic Jihadist Night Dreams as Reported Sources of Spiritual and Political Inspiration
Iain Edgar and David Henig
Chapter 5. Intimacies of Anti-Globalisation: Imagining Unhappy Others as Oneself in Greece
Elisabeth Kirtsoglou and Dimitrios Theodossopoulos
Chapter 6. Escaping the ‘Modern’ Excesses of Japanese Life: Critical Voices on Japanese Rural Cosmopolitanism
Àngels Trias i Valls
Chapter 7. Two Sides of the Same Coin? World Citizenship and Local Crisis in Argentina
Victoria Goddard
Chapter 8. Hegemonic, Subaltern and Anthropological Cosmopolitics
John Gledhill
Chapter 9. Conclusion: United in Discontent
Elisabeth Kirtsoglou
Notes on Contributors
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Elisabeth Kirtsoglou is Lecturer in anthropology at the University of Durham and author of For the love of women: gender, identity, and same-sex relationships in a Greek provincial town (Routledge, 2004). She has published on identity, gender, and politics.
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