February, 2010

On Cosmopolitanism

“Cosmopolitanism is today one of the most important ways of making sense of the contemporary world” (Delanty, 2009)
Abstract:
Cosmopolitanism, as in the above quote by Gerard Delanty, is indeed the dominant way of theorizing a contemporary consciousness of global reach. What Ulrich Beck calls ‘the cosmopolitan moment of world risk society’ (Beck 2006, 2009), is used [...]