By: Ulrike M Vieten

Hardcover

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"Gender and Cosmopolitanism in Europe" combines a feminist critique of contemporary and prominent approaches to cosmopolitanism with an in-depth analysis of historical cosmopolitanism and the manner in which gendered symbolic boundaries of national political communities in two European countries are drawn. Exploring the work of prominent scholars of new cosmopolitanism in Britain and Germany, including Held, Habermas, Beck and Bhabha, it delivers a timely intervention into current debates on globalization, Europeanization and social processes of transformation in and beyond specific national societies. A rigorous examination of the emancipatory potential of current debates surrounding cosmopolitanism in Europe, this book will be of interest to sociologist and political scientists working on questions of identity, inclusion, citizenship, globalization, cosmopolitanism and gender.

Introduction: gendered cosmopolitanism: the scope of this book; Who belongs? Who is the Other?; Recognition, social equality and the current EU anti-discrimination policy; Kulturnation and the homogenized notion of community belonging: Jurgen Habermas's and Ulrich Beck's approaches to 'European' cosmopolitanism; Global trade, the city and commercial cosmopolitanism: David Held's and Homi K. Bhaba's approaches to new cosmopolitanism; About dead ends, one-way streets and critical crossroads; Transversal conversations on the scope of new cosmopolitanism beyond the Eurocentric framework; Bibliography; Index.

ISBN: 9781409433835
ISBN-10: 1409433838
Series: Feminist Imagination-Europe and Beyond Ser.
Audience: Tertiary; University or College
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 192
Published: 1st May 2012
Dimensions (cm): 23.4 x 15.6