03793nam a2200397Ia 4500 pucpr 20260304112408.0 140916s2002 a fr 001 0 eng 48449991 9780822328995 pucpr eng pucpr pucpr rda eng CARIBET JZ1308 C66 2002 050 Breckenridge, Carol Appadural 204429 Cosmopolitanism : Edited By Carol A. Breckenridge, Sheldon Pollock, Homi K. Bhabha, and Dipesh Chakrabarty. txt Durham & London : Duke University Press, 2002. 241 p. ill. ; 24cm book rdacontent text txt rdamedia unmediaded n rdacarrier volume nc A millenial quartet book 302939 Includes index. Sheldon Pollock , Homi K . Bhabha , Carol A . Breckenridge and Dipesh Chakrabarty Cosmopolitanism 1 -- Sheldon Pollock Cosmopolitan and Vernacular in History 15 -- Arjun Appadurai Spectral Housing and Urban Cleaning : Notes on Millennial Mumbai 54 -- Dipesh Chakrabarty Universalism and Belonging in the Logic of Capital 82 -- Mamadou Diouf The Senegalese Murid Trade Diaspora and the Making of a Vernacular Cosmopolitanism 111 -- T . K . Biaya “ Crushing the Pistachio ” : Eroticism in Senegal and the Art of Ousmane Ndiaye Dago 138 -- Walter D . Mignolo The Many Faces of Cosmo – polis : Border Thinking and Critical Cosmopolitanism 157 -- Wu Hung Zhang Dali ’ s Dialogue : Conversation with a City 189 -- Ackbar Abbas Cosmopolitan De – scriptions : Shanghai and Hong Kong 209 -- Contributors 229 -- Index 233 -- 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 -- Cosmopolitanism. 81224 Local Multiculturalismo 45707 LEMB Internationalisme. 238542 Local Politics and culture 294757 Cultural Studies 302717 Political science and theory Cultural relations 83129 Social and cultural anthropology 302938 Carol A. Breckerenridge, [Ed] 207752 lcc 6 JZ1308 General C66 2002 245590 245590 0 0 lcc 0 0 4 4 33 2014-08-25 amazon 17.97 527684 0 Genaral JZ1308 C66 2002 91000000040535 2016-05-27 00:00:00 1 27.97 0000-00-00 6