Full Description
One out of every seven people in the world today is on the move, voluntarily and involuntarily, within countries and between them. More and more people belong to several communities at once and yet the social contract between state and citizen is still bounded by questions of nationality. Where will the cultural building blocks come from with which we can imagine a different kind of nation, and different kinds of institutions, that better reflect this reality?
This book looks at the potential role of international music competitions, beauty magazines, elite social clubs, and religious movements, among others, as potential breeding grounds for the creation of global citizenship. This book was originally published as a special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies.
Contents
1. Books, bodies, and bronzes: comparing sites of global citizenship creation 2. Vogue and the possibility of cosmopolitics: race, health and cosmopolitan engagement in the global beauty industry 3. Shifting tides of world-making in the UNESCO World Heritage Convention: cosmopolitanisms colliding 4. Cosmopolitan theology: Fethullah Gülen and the making of a 'Golden Generation' 5. Globalizing forms of elite sociability: varieties of cosmopolitanism in Paris social clubs 6. Pirate cosmopolitics and the transnational consciousness of the entertainment industry 7. Between global citizenship and Qatarization: negotiating Qatar's new knowledge economy within American branch campuses 8. Tuning in or turning off: performing emotion and building cosmopolitan solidarity in international music competitions
