Dimitrios (Hrsg.) Theodossopoulos

United in Discontent

Local Responses to Cosmopolitanism and Globalization

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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-à-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 analyt… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Kirtsoglou, Elisabeth (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-1-84545-630-6
EAN: 9781845456306
Produktnummer: 19827971
Verlag: Berghahn Books
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
Seitenangabe: 194 S.
Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D0.0 cm
Sonstiges: Undergraduate

Über den Autor

Dimitrios Theodossopoulos is a Reader at the University of Kent. His earlier work examined people-wildlife conflicts and indigenous perceptions of the environment. He is currently concerned with nationalism, ethnic stereotypes, and the politics of culture commodification in Central America and Southeast Europe. He is author of Troubles with Turtles: Cultural Understandings of the Environment on a Greek Island (Berghahn, 2003), and When Greeks Think about Turks: The View from Anthropology (Routledge, 2006).