“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 [...]

Melancholia -
“Is the concept of ‘melancholia’ helpful for understanding postcoloniality?”

Contents:
A Brief History of ‘Melancholia’
Melancholia in Sociology
Mitscherlich’s Melancholia of Germany
Gilroy’s Melancholia of Post-Colonial Britain
Butler’s Melancholia of Freud
Melancholic Postcoloniality
Bengali Hindus in Berne
Germany’s Next Topmodel by Heidi Klum
Conclusion: Varying uses of Melancholia – Melancholia everywhere?

Written for Gender and Postcolonial Theory
MSc in Race, Ethnicity and [...]

European Subjectivities –
Comparing Subject Formations of ‘the West’

This text will look at the concept of ‘The West’:
How it is used to define a territory, a population, a mindset or subject.
Further, how this subject came into being, what its philosophical foundations are.
This will help explain the social consequences from thinking within the [...]

NEONOMADISM
ON THE  GLOBALISATION OF CULTURES
AND THE SHAPING OF
TRANSNATIONAL IDENTITIES
BA Fine Art – Final Thesis
Chelsea College of Art and Design

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