Cosmopolitan Moment, Cosmopolitan Method

ISBN-13: 9781032209630 / Twarda / 2023 / 224 str.

Opis

In conversation, and in the company of a new generation of scholars working in the field, Nigel Rapport and Huon Wardle re-explore the terrain and meaning of cosmopolitan studies now.

Spis treści

1. What does a cosmopolitan anthropology hope to know, and how? An introduction

Huon Wardle and Nigel Rapport

Part I

2. Trembling Moments: Encountering the other (self) at the pier of Lampedusa

Alessandro Corso

3. Being Methodologically Cosmopolitan: On uncertainty, capacities and the stories that are still to be told

Simone Toji

Part II

4. Cosmopolitanism as an empirically grounded framework in urban ethnography

Silvia Binenti

5. Caliban’s Return: Afro-Cuban Cosmopolitics Between Politesse and Multiculturalism

Pablo D. Herrera Veitia

Part III

6. Anthropology upscaled: Cosmopolitan encounters with EU civil servants in Brussels

Seamus Montgomery

7. Rastafari Cosmopolitics: Reflections on an Ethnography of spiritual repatriation and the state of Caribbeanist anthropology

Shelene Gomes

Part IV

8. Interlocutors and anthropologist in and out of cosmopolitanism

Narmala Halstead

9. Social deeds, building, and the cosmopolitan moment: An ethnographic view on affective labour in late-socialist Poland

Tomasz Rakowski

Part V

10. We-ness: The universal nature of human sociation and its ethical recognition

Nigel Rapport

11. On the Structure of Cosmopolitan Encounters

Huon Wardle

12. Afterword

Nigel Rapport and Huon Wardle

O autorze

Nigel Rapport is Emeritus Professor of Anthropological and Philosophical Studies at the University of St Andrews, UK, and Founding Director of the St Andrews Centre for Cosmopolitan Studies.

Huon Wardle is Senior Lecturer, former Director of the Centre for Cosmopolitan Studies, and Editor of the Yearbook in Cosmopolitan Studies at the University of St Andrews, UK.