Books, bodies, and bronzes: comparing sites of global citizenship creation

Abstract

This volume explores music competitions, religious movements, fashion magazines, copyright policy and overseas university campuses, among others, as potential sites for the generation and spread of cosmopolitan ideas, competencies and projects. Our contributors focus on how and when that happens, in what combinations, and what difference it makes when aspects of cosmopolitanism are disseminated at music competitions, UNESCO World Heritage sites, or through membership in elite social clubs. They embed the production and dissemination of cosmopolitanism within cultural and institutional contexts, thereby bringing to light not just the classroom, editorial room and stage, but the complex, power-laden set of organizational arrangements that undergird them and the geopolitical context within which they take shape.

Keywords:

• cosmopolitanism
• competencies
• global citizenship
• nationalism
• culture

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Notes on contributors

Peggy Levitt

PEGGY LEVITT is Professor of Sociology at Wellesley College and Co-Director of the Transnational Studies Initiative, Harvard University.

Pál Nyíri

PÁL NYÍRI is the Professor of Global History from an Anthropological Perspective at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.