Political Sociologies of the Cultural Encounter: Essays on Borders, Cosmopolitanism, and Globalisation

ISBN-13: 9780367520021 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 198 str.

Axford, Barrie

Opis

This book offers transdisciplinary scholarship which challenges the agendas of and markers around traditional social scientific fields.

Spis treści

Introduction: The Importance of the ‘Cultural Encounter’  Part I: Encounters Beyond Borders  1. What is a Border Comrade?  2. Seeing from the Border with Chris Rumford: Towards Cosmopolitan Borders and a Multiperspectival Border Studies  3. Politics of Space, Strangeness and Culture in the Global Age  Part II: Everyday Encounters and Strangeness  4. The Complex Trajectories of the Commoner: Cosmopolitanism, Localisation and Nationalism  5. Artistic Encounters with Difference, Aesthetic Cosmopolitanism and the Political Imagination  6. The Story of the Ship-in-a-bottle: Encountering Strangeness and Familiarity through a Globalised Object  7. Don’t Look Back in Anger: A reflection on strangeness and borders in academia  Part III: Global Studies and Interdisciplinarity  8. Europe in Crises: Europe's Others and Other Europes from a Global Perspective  9. Globalization: Interactive and Integral  10. Cosmopolitan Borders, Strangeness, and Inter-Cultural Encounters  11. Religion and Globalising Processes: An Investigation into the Relationship between Religious Practices and Institutions and the Complex Historical Forms of Global Social Change  12. Challenges of Globalization and the Cosmopolitan Imagination: The Implications of the Anthropocene