This final installment of the Millennial Quartet addresses the question of whether cosmopolitanism--ways of thinking, feeling, and acting beyond one's particular society--is simply the universalism of a Western particular. Assembling scholars from an array of disciplines including English literature and language, romance languages, art history, South Asian studies, and anthropology, this special issue of Public Culture recenters the theory and history of translocal political aspirations and cultural ideas from the traditional Western vantage point to areas outside Europe, such as South...
This final installment of the Millennial Quartet addresses the question of whether cosmopolitanism--ways of thinking, feeling, and acting beyond one's...
How do ordinary people identify themselves as part of a group? By what means do they express a largely unspoken understanding of themselves in society? This special issue on new social imaginaries examines emergent forms of solidarity and collective identity in a global context. The essays explore how local cultural forms and global social movements contribute to the making and unmaking of imagined collective identities. Contributors to this collection include major voices in the fields of philosophy, critical literature, sociology, anthropology, and communication studies. The articles...
How do ordinary people identify themselves as part of a group? By what means do they express a largely unspoken understanding of themselves in society...
