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Record Nr.

UNINA9910148739903321

Titolo

European cosmopolitanism : colonial histories and postcolonial societies / / edited by Gurminder K. Bhambra and John Narayan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2017

ISBN

1-317-33571-6

1-315-65999-9

1-317-33572-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (200 pages)

Collana

International Library of Sociology

Altri autori (Persone)

BhambraGurminder K

NarayanJohn

Disciplina

325/.3094

306.094

Soggetti

Cosmopolitanism - Europe

Postcolonialism - Europe

Europe Foreign relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographic references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. I. Theorizing European cosmopolitanism otherwise -- pt. II. Alternative historical groundings of cosmopolitanisms in Europe -- pt. III. Contemporary postcolonial cosmopolitanisms.

Sommario/riassunto

This book provides a fresh examination of the cosmopolitan project of post-war Europe from a variety of perspectives. It explores the ways in which European cosmopolitanism can be theorized differently if we take into account histories which have rarely been at the forefront of such understandings. It also uses neglected historical resources to draw out new and unexpected entanglements and connections between understandings of European cosmopolitanism both in Europe and elsewhere. The final part of the book places European cosmopolitanism in tension with contemporary postcolonial configurations around diaspora, migration, and austerity. Overall, it seeks to draw attention to the ways in which Europe’s posited others have always been very much a part of Europe’s colonial histories and its postcolonial present.