United in Discontent : Local Responses to Cosmopolitanism and Globalization.
Cosmopolitanism is often discussed in a critical and disapproving manner: as a concept complicit with the interests of the powerful, or as a notion related to Western political supremacy, the ills of globalization, inequality, and capitalist economic penetration. Seen as the moral justification for...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Berghahn Books, Inc.,
2009.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | Cosmopolitanism is often discussed in a critical and disapproving manner: as a concept complicit with the interests of the powerful, or as a notion related to Western political supremacy, the ills of globalization, inequality, and capitalist economic penetration. Seen as the moral justification for embracing or tolerating cultural difference, ethnically and socially diverse communities unenthusiastic with change, develop an acknowledgement of their common position vis--vis a western, "universal" political point of view. By means of exploring the idiosyncratic form of political intimacy genera. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (194 pages) |
ISBN: | 9781845459659 1845459652 |