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Author Amit, Vered, 1955-

Title Community, cosmopolitanism and the problem of human commonality / Vered Amit and Nigel Rapport
Published London : Pluto, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 219 pages)
Series Anthropology, culture and society
Anthropology, culture, and society.
Contents PART I: Community and disjunction: the creativity and uncertainty of everyday engagement. Community as 'Good to Think With': The Productiveness of Strategic Ambiguities -- Consociation and Communitas: The Ambiguous Charms of the Quotidian -- Disjuncture as 'Good to Think With' -- Mobility and Cosmopolitanism: Frustrated Aspirations towards disjuncture. PART II: Cosmopolitanism: actors, relations and institutions beyond the communitarian. The Space of Cosmopolitanism, and the Cosmopolitan Subject -- Cosmopolitan Living: People of the Air and Global Guests -- Cosmopolitan Learning: Diffusion, Openness and Irony -- Cosmopolitan Planning: Anyone, Society and Community -- Epilogue: Cosmopolitanism and Culture. PART III: Dialogue. Amit Responds to Rapport: When cosmopolitan rights are not enough -- Rapport Responds to Amit: On the analytical need to deconstruct "community."
Summary Examination of the changing nature of community, looking at mobile subjects such as migrants and business travellers
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Subject Communities -- Sociological aspects
Globalization -- Sociological aspects
Social integration -- Sociological aspects
Cosmopolitanism -- Sociological aspects
Identity (Philosophical concept)
Group identity -- Sociological aspects
identity.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
Globalization -- Sociological aspects
Identity (Philosophical concept)
Form Electronic book
Author Rapport, Nigel, 1956-
LC no. 2012406492
ISBN 9781849647090
1849647097
0745329039
9780745329031
9780745329048
0745329047
1849647100
9781849647106