Negative cosmopolitanism: cultures and politics of world citizenship after globalization

"From climate change, debt, and refugee crises, to energy security, environmental disasters, and terrorism, the events that lead nightly newscasts and drive public policy demand a global perspective. In the twentieth century the world sought solutions through formal institutions of internationa...

Ausführliche Beschreibung

Gespeichert in:
Bibliographische Detailangaben
Weitere Verfasser: Kent, Eddy 1978- (HerausgeberIn), Tomsky, Terri 1975- (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Montreal & Kingston ; London ; Chicago McGill-Queen's University Press [2017]
Schlagworte:
Zusammenfassung:"From climate change, debt, and refugee crises, to energy security, environmental disasters, and terrorism, the events that lead nightly newscasts and drive public policy demand a global perspective. In the twentieth century the world sought solutions through formal institutions of international governance such as like the United Nations, the International Criminal Court, and the World Bank, but present-day our responses to global realities are often more provisional, improvisational, and contingent. Tracing this uneven history in order to identify principal actors, contesting ideologies, and competing rhetoric, Negative Cosmopolitanism challenges the Kantian ideal of cosmopolitanism as the precondition for a perpetual global peace. Uniting researchers working on contemporary problems with those studying related issues of the past--including slavery, industrial capitalism, and corporate imperialism--essays in this volume scrutinize the entanglement of cosmopolitanism within expanding networks of trade and global capital from the eighteenth-century to the present. By doing so, the contributors pinpoint the ways in which whole populations have been unwillingly caught up in a capitalist reality that has little in common with the earlier ideals of cosmopolitanism. A model for provoking new and necessary questions about neoliberalism, biopolitics, colonialism, citizenship, and xenophobia, Negative Cosmopolitanism establishes a fresh take on the representation of globalization and modern life in history and literature."--
Beschreibung:Aus dem Vorwort: "The essays in this collection emerge from papers presented at a conference on the topic of negative cosmopolitanism, held in October 2012."
Beschreibung:viii, 406 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:9780773550964
9780773550971