Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 219 pages) |
Series |
Anthropology, culture and society |
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Anthropology, culture, and society.
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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
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Globalization -- Sociological aspects
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Social integration -- Sociological aspects
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Cosmopolitanism -- Sociological aspects
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Identity (Philosophical concept)
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Group identity -- Sociological aspects
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identity.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
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Globalization -- Sociological aspects
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Identity (Philosophical concept)
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Rapport, Nigel, 1956-
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LC no. |
2012406492 |
ISBN |
9781849647090 |
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1849647097 |
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0745329039 |
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9780745329031 |
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9780745329048 |
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0745329047 |
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1849647100 |
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9781849647106 |
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