| ID | 140438 |
| Title Proper | Mobility and cosmopolitanism |
| Other Title Information | complicating the interaction between aspiration and practice |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Barber, Pauline Gardiner ; Amit, Vered |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | Within the interdisciplinary literature on cosmopolitanism, one particularly important distinction stands out as a recurring motif. Specifically, scholars have been concerned to distinguish between cosmopolitanism as a set of mundane practices and/or competences on the one hand and cosmopolitanism as a cultivated form of consciousness or moral aspiration on the other. For anthropologists, this distinction between aspiration and practice is often rendered ambiguous across the diverse expressions of cosmopolitanism that they encounter ‘on the ground’. This special issue therefore brings together five contributions from anthropologists who are reporting on encounters and aspirations that reveal different forms of spatial mobility, scales of commitment or risk, and are often transient, ambivalent and precarious. These are circumstances in which cosmopolitanism emerges as uneven and partial rather than as a comprehensive or unequivocal transformation of practice and outlook. |
| `In' analytical Note | Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power Vol. 22, No.5; Oct 2015: p.543-550 |
| Journal Source | Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power 2015-10 22, 5 |
| Key Words | Mobility ; Cosmopolitanism ; Practice ; Fragility ; Commitment ; Aspiration |