United in Discontent

Local Responses to Cosmopolitanism and Globalization
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-84545-630-6
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 194 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 443 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Theodossopoulos, Dimitrios

Kirtsoglou, Elisabeth

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Globalisierung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Theodossopoulos, Dimitrios
Dimitrios Theodossopoulos is a Reader at the University of Kent. His earlier work examined people-wildlife conflicts and indigenous perceptions of the environment. He is currently concerned with nationalism, ethnic stereotypes, and the politics of culture commodification in Central America and Southeast Europe. He is author of Troubles with Turtles: Cultural Understandings of the Environment on a Greek Island (Berghahn, 2003), and When Greeks Think about Turks: The View from Anthropology (Routledge, 2006).

Kirtsoglou, Elisabeth
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.

Dimitrios Theodossopoulos is a Reader at the University of Kent. His earlier work examined people-wildlife conflicts and indigenous perceptions of the environment. He is currently concerned with nationalism, ethnic stereotypes, and the politics of culture commodification in Central America and Southeast Europe. He is author of Troubles with Turtles: Cultural Understandings of the Environment on a Greek Island (Berghahn, 2003), and When Greeks Think about Turks: The View from Anthropology (Routledge, 2006).