Cosmopolitan borders
Cosmopolitan Borders makes the case for processes of bordering being better understood through the lens of cosmopolitanism. Borders are 'cosmopolitan workshops' where 'cultural encounters of a cosmopolitan kind' take place and where entrepreneurial cosmopolitans advance new forms...
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Literature type: | Electronic Software eBook |
Language: | English |
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Mobility and politics
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http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137351401 |
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Cosmopolitan Borders makes the case for processes of bordering being better understood through the lens of cosmopolitanism. Borders are 'cosmopolitan workshops' where 'cultural encounters of a cosmopolitan kind' take place and where entrepreneurial cosmopolitans advance new forms of sociality in the face of 'global closure'. |
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Electronic book text. Epublication based on: 9781137351395, 2014. |
Carrier Form: | 116 p. : 0 ill. |
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9781137351401 : 1137351403 : |
CLC: | F114.41 |
Contents: | 1. Introduction 2. Citizen Vernacular: the Case of Borderwork 3. 'Seeing Like a Border': Towards Multiperspectivalim 4. Fixity/Unfixity 5. Connectivites: Monumentalizing Borders 6. Concluding Comments. |