The Cosmopolitics of Solidarity

The Cosmopolitics of Solidarity
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Publisher : Springer Nature
Total Pages : 177
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ISBN-10 : 9783030990879
ISBN-13 : 3030990877
Rating : 4/5 (79 Downloads)

Synopsis The Cosmopolitics of Solidarity by : Johanna Leinius

This volume discusses how commonality and difference are negotiated across heterogeneous social movements in Latin America, especially Peru. It applies cosmopolitics as an analytical lens to understand the intricacies of social movement encounters across difference, without imposing colonial hierarchies or categorizations. The author blends multiple theoretical approaches—such as social movement research, postcolonial feminism, and post-foundational discourse theory—with ethnographic insights to develop a theory of cosmopolitical solidarity. Providing a transnational and intersectional perspective on the politics of social justice in a postcolonial context, this book will appeal to students of social movements, gender studies, racism, Latin American studies, and international relations, as well as practitioners involved in activism, social work, or international cooperation.

Transnational Solidarity

Transnational Solidarity
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 459
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ISBN-10 : 9781108801744
ISBN-13 : 1108801749
Rating : 4/5 (44 Downloads)

Synopsis Transnational Solidarity by : Helle Krunke

The book analyses the concept and conditions of transnational solidarity, its challenges and opportunities, drawing on diverse disciplines as Law, Political Science, Sociology, Philosophy, Psychology and History. In the contemporary world, we see two major opposing trends. The first involves nationalistic and populistic movements. Transnational solidarity has been under pressure for a decade because of, among others, global economic and migration crises, leading to populistic and authoritarian leadership in some European countries, the United States and Brazil. Countries withdraw from international commitments on climate, trade and refugees and the European Union struggles with Brexit. The second trend, partly a reaction to the first, is a strengthened transnational grass-root community – a cosmopolitan movement – which protests primarily against climate change. Based on interdisciplinary reflections on the concept of transnational solidarity, its challenges and opportunities are analysed, drawing on Europe as a focal case study for a broader, global perspective.

Sloterdijk Now

Sloterdijk Now
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Publisher : Polity
Total Pages : 233
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ISBN-10 : 9780745651361
ISBN-13 : 0745651364
Rating : 4/5 (61 Downloads)

Synopsis Sloterdijk Now by : Stuart Elden

This book represents the first major engagement with Sloterdijk's thought in the English language, and will provoke new debates across the humanities. The collection ranges across the full breadth of Sloterdijk's work, covering such key topics as cynicism, ressentiment, posthumanism and the role of the public intellectual.

Debating Cosmopolitics

Debating Cosmopolitics
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Publisher : Verso Books
Total Pages : 406
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ISBN-10 : 9781789608717
ISBN-13 : 1789608716
Rating : 4/5 (17 Downloads)

Synopsis Debating Cosmopolitics by : Daniele Archibugi

Cosmopolitics, the concept of a world politics based on shared democratic values, is in an increasingly fragile state. While Western democracies insist ever more vehemently upon a maintenance of their privileges-freedom of speech, security, wealth-an increasing number of the world's inhabitants are under threat of poverty, famine and war. What is needed, the writers suggest, is a deliberate decision to extend the principles and values of democracy to the sphere of international relations. Recent experience does not bode well, but their arguments, which range from reform of the United Nations, reduction of military weapons, additional power for international judiciary institutions and an increase in aid to developing countries, urge new and inspired action.

Globalization, Supranational Dynamics and Local Experiences

Globalization, Supranational Dynamics and Local Experiences
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 360
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ISBN-10 : 9783319640754
ISBN-13 : 3319640755
Rating : 4/5 (54 Downloads)

Synopsis Globalization, Supranational Dynamics and Local Experiences by : Marco Caselli

This edited collection focuses on concepts of globalization, glocalization, transnationalism and cosmopolitanism. The contributions provide evidence of how in practice, global dynamics and individual lives are interrelated. It presents theoretical reflections on how the local, the transnational and global dimensions of social life are entwined and construct the meaning of one another, and offers everyday examples of how individuals and organizations try to answer global challenges in local contexts. The book closely focuses on migration processes, as one of the main phenomena allowing a high number of people from contemporary society to directly experience supranational dynamics, either as migrants or inhabitants of the places where migrants pass through or settle down. Globalization, Supranational Dynamics and Local Experiences will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines, including sociology, migration studies and global studies.

Cross-Border Solidarities in Twenty-First Century Contexts

Cross-Border Solidarities in Twenty-First Century Contexts
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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages : 247
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ISBN-10 : 9781538157718
ISBN-13 : 1538157713
Rating : 4/5 (18 Downloads)

Synopsis Cross-Border Solidarities in Twenty-First Century Contexts by : Janet M. Conway

Conditions for global solidarities and social movements have changed radically since their high point in the 1990s United Nations conferences. This collection considers how political solidarities are being understood and constructed in a variety of cross-border struggles and for what ends under twenty-first century conditions. In studies grounded in different world regions at a variety of scales, authors address: how the Cold War divide and its aftermath have structured contemporary asymmetries in European LGBT movements and in ‘global’ feminisms; how ‘colonial difference’ in Latin America confronts feminist and social justice movements with problems of translation across worlds; how travelling concepts essential to constructing solidarities across distance and difference traverse linguistic divides and attendant power imbalances in world cities and transnational networks; how rurality as a form of colonial difference challenges established categories of intersectional feminism. Feminist politics of power and difference, and attention to gendered agency, are at the centre of this inquiry into the possibility of twenty-first century solidarities across borders.

The State, Civil Society and the Citizen

The State, Civil Society and the Citizen
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Publisher : Peter Lang
Total Pages : 234
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ISBN-10 : 3631585934
ISBN-13 : 9783631585931
Rating : 4/5 (34 Downloads)

Synopsis The State, Civil Society and the Citizen by : Michał Bron

This book contributes to the setting out of a new, better informed and complex basis for discussions about the relationships between the State, the civil society and the citizen in distinct European countries and regions. It will be useful to researchers in the field of adult education, as well as social scientists interested in topics related to civil society, such as NGOs, social economists, and practitioners concerned with the trends that are forcing adult education to recontextualise its aims and practices.

Cosmopolitan Urbanism

Cosmopolitan Urbanism
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 273
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ISBN-10 : 9781134284382
ISBN-13 : 1134284381
Rating : 4/5 (82 Downloads)

Synopsis Cosmopolitan Urbanism by : Jon Binnie

Renowned editors and contributors have come together to produce one of the first books to tackle cosmopolitanism from a geographical perspective. It employs a range of approaches to provide a valuable grounded treatment.

Recent Advances in the Creation of a Process-Based Worldview

Recent Advances in the Creation of a Process-Based Worldview
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Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages : 240
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ISBN-10 : 9781443864909
ISBN-13 : 1443864900
Rating : 4/5 (09 Downloads)

Synopsis Recent Advances in the Creation of a Process-Based Worldview by : Łukasz Lamża

Process thought is an important component of contemporary philosophy. Alfred North Whitehead’s organic philosophy has a special place in the landscape of process thinking, being detailed, precise and well-thought, and at the same time extremely visionary and far-reaching. The global community of process thinkers includes physicists, biologists, doctors, political scientists, educators, activists, philosophers, theologians and other people devoted to rethinking their disciplines in the light of process philosophy. This volume presents the cutting edge in the creation of a process worldview. Leading scholars from all over the world gathered to discuss how process thinking can inspire us to rethink our lives. Precise philosophical language and a unifying vision are applied to core issues, such as politics, society, education and religion. The book represents a bold move from academic philosophy into the realm of actual human lives.

Contemporary British Children's Fiction and Cosmopolitanism

Contemporary British Children's Fiction and Cosmopolitanism
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 327
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ISBN-10 : 9781317573944
ISBN-13 : 1317573943
Rating : 4/5 (44 Downloads)

Synopsis Contemporary British Children's Fiction and Cosmopolitanism by : Fiona McCulloch

This book visits contemporary British children’s and young adult (YA) fiction alongside cosmopolitanism, exploring the notion of the nation within the context of globalization, transnationalism and citizenship. By resisting globalization’s dehumanizing conflation, cosmopolitanism offers an ethical, humanitarian, and political outlook of convivial planetary community. In its pedagogical responsibility towards readers who will become future citizens, contemporary children’s and YA fiction seeks to interrogate and dismantle modes of difference and instead provide aspirational models of empathetic world citizenship. McCulloch discusses texts such as J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series, Jackie Kay’s Strawgirl, Theresa Breslin’s Divided City, Gillian Cross’s Where I Belong, Kerry Drewery’s A Brighter Fear, Saci Lloyd’s Momentum, and Julie Bertagna’s Exodus trilogy. This book addresses ways in which children’s and YA fiction imagines not only the nation but the world beyond, seeking to disrupt binary divisions through a cosmopolitical outlook. The writers discussed envision British society’s position and role within a global arena of wide-ranging topical issues, including global conflicts, gender, racial politics, ecology, and climate change. Contemporary children’s fiction has matured by depicting characters who face uncertainty just as the world itself experiences an uncertain future of global risks, such as environmental threats and terrorism. The volume will be of significant interest to the fields of children’s literature, YA fiction, contemporary fiction, cosmopolitanism, ecofeminism, gender theory, and British and Scottish literature.