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Cosmopolitan Borders
Mobility & Politics
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Verlag: | Palgrave Pivot |
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Veröffentl.: | 16.05.2014 |
ISBN/EAN: | 9781137351401 |
Sprache: | englisch |
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Cosmopolitan Borders makes the case for processes of bordering being better understood through the lens of cosmopolitanism. Borders are 'cosmopolitan workshops' where 'cultural encounters of a cosmopolitan kind' take place and where entrepreneurial cosmopolitans advance new forms of sociality in the face of 'global closure'.
1. Introduction 2. Citizen Vernacular: the Case of Borderwork 3. 'Seeing Like a Border': Towards Multiperspectivalim 4. Fixity/Unfixity 5. Connectivites: Monumentalizing Borders 6. Concluding Comments
Chris Rumford is Professor of Political Sociology and Global Politics at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. He is the author of <EM>The Globalization of Strangeness</EM>, <EM>Cricket and Globalization</EM> (co-edited with Steve Wagg), <EM>Cosmopolitan Spaces </EM>and <EM>Rethinking Europe</EM> (with Gerard Delanty).<BR><BR>