Overview
- Presents a new perspective on cosmopolitanisms, in the plural
- Localizes forms and functions of cosmopolitanism in time and place
- Shows how the global is remade locally, how the whole appears in the parts
- Sheds a new light on local knowledge, self- governance, planning, development
- Delineates new spaces for local agency in the age of globalization
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Geography (BRIEFSGEOGRAPHY)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction and Basic Concepts
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The Small Worlds of Cosmopolitanism: Sulina
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Small and Large
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About this book
This book offers a unique perspective on cosmopolitanism, examining the ways it is constructed and reconstructed on the small scale in an ongoing process of matching the local with the global, a process entailing mutual transformation. Based on a wide range of literatures and a series of case studies, it analyzes the different versions and functions of cosmopolitanism and points to the need to critically re-examine current conceptions of globalization.
The book first illustrates the interplay between networks and narratives in the construction of cosmopolitan communities in three specific cities: Trieste, Odessa and Tbilisi. Each has a past more cosmopolitan than the present and each uses that cosmopolitan past to guide them towards the future.
Next, the book focuses on narrative dynamics by isolating several discourses on the cosmopolitan place and figure in European cultural history. It then goes on to detail the internal representations and local functions of larger wholes in smaller communities, shedding a new light on issues of inter- disciplinary interest: self- governance, participation, local knowledge, social memory, scale, planning and development.
Of interest to political scientists, anthropologists, economists, geographers and philosophers, this book offers an insightful contribution to theories of globalization and global/ local interaction, bringing the local discursive mechanics into sharper focus and also emphasizing the semi- autonomous character of narrative constructions of self and community in a larger world.
Authors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Local Cosmopolitanism
Book Subtitle: Imagining and (Re-)Making Privileged Places
Authors: Kristof Van Assche, Petruța Teampău
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Geography
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19030-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-19029-7Published: 09 June 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-19030-3Published: 15 May 2015
Series ISSN: 2211-4165
Series E-ISSN: 2211-4173
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 131
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour
Topics: Human Geography, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Development Economics