Full Description
Gathering scholars from five continents, this edited book displaces the elitist image of cosmopolitan as well as the blame addressed to aesthetic cosmopolitanism often considered as merely cosmetic. By considering aesthetic cosmopolitanism as a tool to understand how individuals and social groups appropriate the sphere of culture in a global world, the authors are concerned with its operationalization on two strongly interwoven levels, macro and micro, structural and individual. Based on the discussion of theoretical perspectives and empirically grounded research (qualitative and quantitative, conducted in many countries), this volume unveils new insights, on tourism and food, architecture and museums, TV series and movies, rock, K-pop and samba, by providing resources for making sense of aesthetic preferences in a global perspective.
Contributors are: Felicia Chan, Vincenzo Cicchelli, Talitha Alessandra Ferreira, Paula Iadevito, Sukhmani Khorana, Anne Krebs, Antoinette Kujilaars, Franck Mermier, Sylvie Octobre, Joana Pellerano, Rosario Radakovich, Motti Regev, Viviane Riegel, Clara Rodriguez, Leslie Sklair, Yi-Ping Eva Shi, Claire Thoumelin and Dario Verderame.
Contents
Foreword to Aesthetic Cosmopolitanism
Mike Featherstone
List of Illustrations
List of Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: How Aesthetic Cosmopolitan Is Our Global World?
Vincenzo Cicchelli, Sylvie Octobre and Viviane Riegel
Part 1
Doing Aesthetic Cosmopolitan Studies
1 The Condition of Cultural Cosmopolitanism
Motti Regev
2 The Seven Pillars of Aesthetico-Cultural Cosmopolitanism
Vincenzo Cicchelli and Sylvie Octobre
3 The 'frame', the 'rhythm', and the 'imaginary': Rethinking the Cosmopolitan Aesthetic Experience
Dario Verderame
Part 2
Reshaping the Imaginaries of the World
4 The Politics of Cosmopolitan Architecture: Third World Modernism and the Enigmatic Signifier
Leslie Sklair
5 Aesthetic Cosmopolitanism in São Paulo: a Peripheral Perspective from a Global City
Viviane Riegel
6 Australians in Hanoi: When Street Food Tours are Safely Exotic
Sukhmani Khorana
7 Musical Cosmopolitanism: Analysis and Reflections on Cultural Consumption, Gender and Identities around K-pop in Argentina
Paula Iadevito
Part 3
Reframing Boundaries through Aesthetics
8 Cosmopolitan Socialization: How I See Me, How They See Me
Clara Rodriguez
9 The Love for Cinema Undergoing Transformations: Internationalization and Cosmopolitanism Patterns of Uruguayan Cinephiles
Rosario Radakovich
10 The Globalization of Samba Percussion: the Reconfiguration of the Legitimate Ways of Playing
Antoinette Kuijlaars
11 Cosmopolitan Pleasures and Affects; or Why Are We Still Talking about Yellowface in Twenty-First-Century Cinema?
Felicia Chan
Part 4
Aesthetic Cosmopolitanism as a Strategy
12 Redefining Cosmopolitanism: the Inter-Generational Transmission of Global Cultural Capital in Taiwan
Yi-Ping Eva Shih
13 Louvre Abu Dhabi: a Clash of Cosmopolitanisms?
Anne Krebs and Franck Mermier
14 São Paulo and the Brazilian Gastronomy: Field of Disputes within Globalization
Joana A. Pellerano and Talitha Alessandra Ferreira
15 Danish Television Series, a Cosmopolitan Artwork
Claire Thoumelin
Afterword: A New Road toward Global Culture
Shujiro Yazawa
Index
