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Anthropology and the New Cosmopolitanism: Rooted, Feminist and Vernacular Perspectives: 45
Author(s): Pnina Werbner (Author)
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publication Date: 1 April 2009
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 396 pages
- ISBN-10: 184788198X
- ISBN-13: 9781847881984
Book Description
Anthropology and the New Cosmopolitanism inaugurates a new, situated, cosmopolitan anthropology. It examines the rise of postcolonial movements responsive to global rights movements, which espouse a politics of dignity, cultural difference, democracy, dissent and tolerance. The book starts from the premise that cosmopolitanism is not, and never has been, a ‘western’, elitist ideal exclusively. The book’s major innovation is to show the way cosmopolitans beyond the North–in Papua New Guinea, Indonesia and Malaysia, India, Africa, the Middle East and Mexico–juggle universalist commitments with roots in local cultural milieus and particular communities.Anthropology and the New Cosmopolitanism breaks new ground in theorizing the role of social anthropology as a discipline that engages with the moral, economic, legal and political transformations and dislocations of a globalizing world. It introduces the reader to key debates surrounding cosmopolitanism in the social sciences, and is written clearly and accessibly for undergraduates in anthropology and related subjects.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“‘These wide-ranging ethnographic accounts offer much-needed comparative perspectives on the possibilities of trans-local belonging and solidarity in a globalizing world. In the process, anthropology is re-imagined and renewed as a positioned cosmopolitan practice, among others. Genuinely provocative and destabilizing, the essays are an essential resource for any serious thinking about the varieties of cosmopolitanism today. – James Clifford, University of California, Santa Cruz The deep value of cosmopolitanism, Richard Werbner concludes, is to urge us to ‘think the unthinkable’: humankind without frontiers. This volume provides victuals for that quest. – The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute – Nigel Rapport, Centre for Cosmopolitan Studies, University of St Andrews, UK This superb book is a welcome addition to contemporary discussions about transnational belonging, rootedness, patriotism, and anthropology as a situated, cosmopolitan practice. It will immediately become the most important reference point for all interested in varieties of cosmopolitanism in the contemporary world. – Anthropological Notebooks XV/I – Ana Dragojlovic, RSPAS, The Australian National University, Australia”
About the Author
Pnina Werbner is Professor of Social Anthropology, Keele University.
