United in Discontent Local Responses to Cosmopolitanism and Globalization [Paperback]

Cosmopolitanism is often discussed in a critical and disapproving manner: as a concept complicit with the interests of the powerful, or as a notion related to Western political supremacy, the ills of globalization, inequality, and capitalist economic penetration. Seen as the moral justification for embracing or tolerating cultural difference, ethnically and socially diverse communities unenthusiastic with change, develop an acknowledgement of their common position vis-?-vis a western, universal political point of view. By means of exploring the idiosyncratic form of political intimacy generated by anti-cosmopolitanism, and assuming an analytical and critical stance towards the concepts of parochialism and localism, this volume examines the political consciousness of such negatively predisposed actors, and it attempts to explain their reservation towards the sincerity of international politics, their reliance on conspiracy theories or nationalist narratives, their introversion.

Preface

Chapter 1.Introduction: United in Discontent
Dimitrios Theodossopoulos

Chapter 2.Shifting Centres, Tense Peripheries: Indigenous Cosmopolitanisms
Andrew StrathernandPamela J. Stewart

Chapter 3.Sabili and Indonesian Muslim Resistance to Cosmopolitanism
C.W. Watson

Chapter 4.The Cosmopolitan and the Noumenal: A Case Study of Islamic Jihadist Night Dreams as Reported Sources of Spiritual and Political Inspiration
Iain EdgarandDavid Henig

Chapter 5.Intimacies of Anti-Globalisation: Imagining Unhappy Others as Oneself in Greece
Elisabeth KirtsoglouandDimitrios Theodossopoulos

Chapter 6.Escaping the Modern Excesses of Japanese Life: Critical Voices on Japanese Rural Cosmopolitanism
?ngels Trias i Valls

Chapter 7.Two Sides of the Same Coin? World Citizenship and Local Crisis in Argentina
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