Cosmopolitan Borders (Mobility & Politics)

Cosmopolitan Borders makes the case for processes of bordering being better understood through the lens of cosmopolitanism. Rather than 'world citizenship' an alternative understanding of cosmopolitanism is offered, emerging from a critique of the idea of 'openness', and founded on a different understanding of the relationship between globalization and cosmopolitanism. The core argument is that 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'. The book outlines four cosmopolitan dimensions of borders: vernacularization, multiperspectivalism, fixity/unfixity, and connectivity.

• • Author: Chris Rumford
• • Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
• • Publication Date: May 16, 2014
• • Number of Pages: 115 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Hardcover
• • ISBN-10: 113735139X
• • ISBN-13: 9781137351395