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