The Cosmopolitan Self and the Fetishism of Identity

George, Siby K.

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“…Our sense of belonging to a home and homestead, and our ability to fly away from it are both to be taken account of … (George, 2011: 75)…”

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Aussie kids, global citizens: Cultural nationalism and cosmopolitanism in service providers’ and parents’ accounts

Nichols

2015

Global Studies of Childhood

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Based on interviews with Australian parents and service providers and examination of parenting resources, this study examined the respective influence of cultural nationalism and cosmopolitanism on parenting in the early years. This analysis found, contrary to research on children's social identities, that ideas of nation were significant to Australian parents and service providers. However, there are significant challenges to articulating and resourcing a vernacular orientation to family life. These include the dominance by multinational enterprises of the marketplace for parenting resources, the generic nature of these resources and the difficulty in defining what an Australian family or parenting style might be. At the same time, some parents identified with a cosmopolitan orientation to socialising their children. Their motivations were various, including future transnational mobility, conferring advantage in a competitive local job market and fostering an appreciation for diverse cultures. This was a strategic and entrepreneurial rather than a philosophical orientation.

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“…Our sense of belonging to a home and homestead, and our ability to fly away from it are both to be taken account of … (George, 2011: 75)…”

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Aussie kids, global citizens: Cultural nationalism and cosmopolitanism in service providers’ and parents’ accounts

Nichols

2015

Global Studies of Childhood

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“…The morality of respect for human difference can be either arranged into a unity in a basically Kantian fashion with its many recent varieties, or in the Lévinasian sense of an anarchic goodness of the subject that is held hostage by the other's moral proximity. (George, : 70).…”

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Gender performance and cosmopolitan practice: exploring gendered frames of openness and hospitality

Høy-Petersen

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Skrbiš

2016

The Sociological Review

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Critiques of cosmopolitanism theory argue that the concept is premised on implicit assumptions of a masculine global citizen, replete with privileged access to various mobile and symbolic forms of social advantage. In response, empirical accounts of cosmopolitanism have explored the impact of class, education, and ethnicity on cosmopolitan practices. Yet, little direct empirical attention is given to whether and how men and women might differently understand and frame cultural diversity. We argue that to the extent that cosmopolitanism is constituted by social practices, scripts and repertoires of discursive narrativization, it is likely to be navigated and applied through gender-ideologies. Applying the methodological concept of cognitive schema to a set of qualitative data, and focusing on expressions of hospitality towards others within local communities, we inductively assemble evidence to show that men and women have differently articulated cosmopolitan imaginations. In conclusion, we consider what our empirical attention to gender might mean for how we advance critical theories of cosmopolitanism.

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“…Hopper (2007) claims that cosmopolitanism is not an abstract concept when it is related to globalization but becomes "a lived experience for increasing numbers of people, and consequently more diverse and plural in nature" (p. 158). In many respects, this worldview and way of life tend to make the term cosmopolitan to belong to the elites (George, 2010;Holton, 2009). Seeing this problem, many scholars (e.g.…”

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Digital Rhetoric of Cosmopolitanism: A Case Study of Thai Students at Michigan Technological University

Srijongjai¹

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The Cosmopolitan Self and the Fetishism of Identity

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Aussie kids, global citizens: Cultural nationalism and cosmopolitanism in service providers’ and parents’ accounts

Aussie kids, global citizens: Cultural nationalism and cosmopolitanism in service providers’ and parents’ accounts

Gender performance and cosmopolitan practice: exploring gendered frames of openness and hospitality

Digital Rhetoric of Cosmopolitanism: A Case Study of Thai Students at Michigan Technological University

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