Community, cosmopolitanism and the problem of human commonality. (2012)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Vered Amit and Nigel Rapport.
• Other Names: Amit, Vered, 1955-; Rapport, Nigel, 1956-
• 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".
• Publisher Details: London : Pluto Press
• Publication Date: 2012
• Extent: 1 online resource (240 pages.)
• Subjects: 307; Social Science -- Anthropology -- General; Communities
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781849647106
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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