CosmopolitanismCarol A. Breckenridge As the final installment of Public Culture’s Millennial Quartet, Cosmopolitanism assesses the pasts and possible futures of cosmopolitanism—or ways of thinking, feeling, and acting beyond one’s particular society. With contributions from distinguished scholars in disciplines such as literary studies, art history, South Asian studies, and anthropology, this volume recenters the history and theory of translocal political aspirations and cultural ideas from the usual Western vantage point to areas outside Europe, such as South Asia, China, and Africa. By examining new archives, proposing new theoretical formulations, and suggesting new possibilities of political practice, the contributors critically probe the concept of cosmopolitanism. On the one hand, cosmopolitanism may be taken to promise a form of supraregional political solidarity, but on the other, these essays argue, it may erode precisely those intimate cultural differences that derive their meaning from particular places and traditions. Given that most cosmopolitan political formations—from the Roman empire and European imperialism to contemporary globalization—have been coercive and unequal, can there be a noncoercive and egalitarian cosmopolitan politics? Finally, the volume asks whether cosmopolitanism can promise any universalism that is not the unwarranted generalization of some Western particular. Contributors. Ackbar Abbas, Arjun Appadurai, Homi K. Bhabha, T. K. Biaya, Carol A. Breckenridge, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Ousame Ndiaye Dago, Mamadou Diouf, Wu Hung, Walter D. Mignolo, Sheldon Pollock, Steven Randall |
Contents
Cosmopolitanisms | |
Cosmopolitan and Vernacular in History | 13 |
Notes on Millennial Mumbai | 52 |
Universalism and Belonging in the Logic of Capital | 80 |
The Senegalese Murid Trade Diaspora and the Making of a Vernacular Cosmopolitanism | 109 |
Eroticism in Senegal and the Art of Ousmane Ndiaye Dago | 136 |
Border Thinking and Critical Cosmopolitanism | 155 |
Conversation with a City | 187 |
Shanghai and Hong Kong | 207 |
Contributors | 227 |
Index | 231 |
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Cosmopolitanism Dipesh Chakrabarty,Homi K. Bhabha,Sheldon Pollock,Carol A. Breckenridge Limited preview - 2002 |
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