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This article reflects on Sanjay Subrahmanyam's article on early modern cosmopolitanism entitled "The Hidden Face of Surat: Reflections on a Cosmopolitan Indian Ocean Centre, 1540-1750," and suggests that the cosmopolitan space was a political space where competing ideas of sovereignty clashed with each other. Therefore, the article argues that the study of political ideas and competing forms of constitutional programs should accompany the focus on life-style preferences of early modern cosmopolites when we study cosmopolitanism.

The study of global ties is the focus of cosmopolitanism. Cultural, ethnic, and racial harmony are among its stated goals. This research analyses the effects of cosmopolitanism and globalization on the construction of authority and individuality in the novels The Inheritance of Loss and Burnt Shadows. Bhabha's (1994) framework was used for the analysis. The research found that cosmopolitanism is influenced by both cultural and social elements. Examining the effects of cosmopolitanism on postcolonial art is the focus of this research. Postcolonial scholars and others will be impacted by the study. It emphasizes comparative literature from around the world. This method encourages researchers to delve deeper into how postcolonial literature's global themes have influenced contemporary debates. The findings may stimulate further conversations on how to deal with issues of self and authority in a globalized society, as suggested by the paper's conclusion.

ABSTRACT The article investigates Kantian cosmopolitanism, based on the philosopher's works and his main commentators. The study chooses and highlights three central and specific themes: the evolution of the human species, the dilemma between sovereignty and cosmopolitanism, and the issue of hospitality. By casting light on these themes, the article attempts to fill in a gap in specialized literature from the fields of international relations and philosophy. Regarding the evolution of the human species, I emphasize the philosopher's understanding of "unsociable sociability" – a natural mechanism which provides the elementary basis for the advent of cosmopolitanism and perpetual peace. The dilemma between sovereignty and cosmopolitanism leads to the significant analysis of whether Kant has reflected upon or proposed transcending the paradigm of classical sovereignty. Finally, the discussion about hospitality becomes particularly relevant, and is scrutinized according to its juridical and ethical.

A structural affinity between republican freedom as non-domination and human rights claims accounts for the relevance of republicanism for cosmopolitan concerns. Central features of republican freedom are its institution dependence and the modal aspect it adds to being free. Its chief concern is not constraint, but the way in which an agent is constrained or not. To the extent I am vulnerable to someone's dispositional power over me I am not free, even if I am not in fact constrained. Republican freedom adds a substantial element to a justification of human rights in terms of entitlement, rather than mere satisfaction of interests. A satisfied interest is not a satisfied right if the satisfaction is dependent on personal goodwill and can be withdrawn at any time. Like republican freedom, human rights claims add a modal aspect to enjoyment. Both can be violated by institutional arrangement alone and can be secured only within accountable institutions. National borders may well be irrelevant to the dispositional powers to which people are vulnerable. An international set of institutions globalizes those circumstances in which republican liberty arises as a concern.

The author addresses the prospects of the new cosmopolitan- ism project, which appears as a choice focused on individuality and its survival as an integrity in diversity. This reveals the relevance of Castoriadis's autonomy project. The author believes that Castoriadis's language of describing social reality can be used quite organically to characterise the latest trends in the development of cosmopolitan practices. The substantiation of the formulated assumptions is the purpose of this article. The article shows that new cosmopolitanism is an attempt to find an inclusive solution to the problem of universalism, which classical modernity and old cosmopolitanism failed to solve. The development of the discourse and practices of autonomy can become one of the effective means of such a solution. The main idea of the paper is that the projects of autonomy and new cosmopolitanism have similar goals and a direction, and they are a means of implementing cosmopolitan attitudes, or the process of cosmopolitanization. New cosmopolitan theories speak primarily of others, of otherness and autonomy. Autonomous societies can develop and implement cosmopolitan programs. If there is no adequate reflexivity in a heteronomous society, then autonomous societies are reflexive by their very nature. The new cosmopolitanism revives the project of autonomy, takes it from a purely theoretical dimension to a practical one, and allows to discuss its practical implementation. To clarify this parallel, it is important to consider Castoriadis's interpretation of the political dimension of social life. In this case, we are talking about developing cosmopolitan citizenship, which represents the highest level of individual autonomy. The article shows the most important role of creative imagination in its interpretation by Castoriadis in solving the identified problems and establishing various institutions of society. The article concludes that paideia is the central dimension of any policy of autonomy, which gives form to social chaos. Thus, we stop to divide the human world between 'us' and 'them' — us: the only real human beings; the others: savages, barbarians, heathens, we stop considering our representation of the world as the only meaningful one. This is the essence of cosmopolitanism as it is interpreted by the new cosmopolitanism.

The notion of cultural plurality and the idea of intercultural dialogue have been central to the discussion of cosmopolitanism in both political philosophy and social theory. This point is developed in an exposition of the arguments put forward by Immanuel Kant and Hannah Arendt and through a critical engagement with Ulrich Beck's social theory of cosmopolitanism as a "social reality." It is argued that Beck's analysis fails to convince as a sociological extension of a long philosophical tradition and that instead of Beck's macrostructural analysis it is more promising to formulate an actor-centred sociological theory on the transnationalization of social spaces and the formation of a "cosmopolitan" consciousness or awareness of transnational actors.

This book is the first study to engage with the relationship between cosmopolitan political thought and the history of global conflicts. Accompanied by visual material ranging from critical battle painting to the photographic representation of ruins, it showcases established as well as emerging interdisciplinary scholarship in global political thought and cultural history. Touching on the progressive globalization of conflicts between the eighteenth and the twentieth century, including the War of the Spanish Succession, the Seven Years' War, the Napoleonic wars, the two World Wars, as well as seemingly 'internal' civil wars in eastern Europe's imperial frontiers, it shows how these conflicts produced new zones of cultural contact. The authors build on a rich foundation of unpublished sources drawn from public institutions as well as private archives, allowing them to shed new light on the British, Russian, German, Ottoman, American, and transnational history of international thought and political engagement.

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- About the Book -- Contents -- About the Author -- Chapter 1: Cosmopolitan Sensibilities and Outernational Imaginaries -- 1.1 Spiritual Repatriation -- 1.2 Shashamane -- 1.3 Rastafari Symbolism -- 1.4 The Plantation and Creole Subjectivities -- 1.5 Cosmopolitan Theory -- 1.6 Migration -- 1.7 Organisation of the Book -- References -- Chapter 2: "Word-Sound-Power" -- 2.1 Everyday Performativity -- 2.2 Itiopia/Ethiopia in Rastafari Worldview -- 2.3 Haile Selassie I -- 2.4 Sighting Rastafari and "Knowing Your Bible" -- 2.5 Testing Strangers: To Suss Out a Person -- 2.6 Chanting: Dread Talk, Morality and the Commodification of the Word (Music) -- References -- Chapter 3: Ambiguities of Belonging -- 3.1 A Lineage of Ethiopian Royalty, an Abyssinian Pedigree -- 3.2 The West Indian God of Rastafari -- 3.3 An Everyday Micro-conflict -- 3.4 Reclaiming Blackness -- References -- Chapter 4: Narratives of Community: His Majesty's People -- 4.1 Origin Stories -- 4.2 Narrative Self-Making -- 4.3 Everyday Practices of Relatedness -- 4.4 Being Ethiopian -- 4.5 Being Heartical -- References -- Chapter 5: Making a Living -- 5.1 Outernational Livelihoods -- 5.2 Household Earnings -- 5.3 Routine Precarity -- 5.4 The Western Union Run -- 5.5 The Neighbourhood Shop -- 5.6 Translocal Reciprocity -- 5.7 Material Betterment, Status and In-Kind Remittances -- References -- Chapter 6: Family and Kinship: Rastafari Yards -- 6.1 Creole Kinship -- 6.2 My Yard: Family and Household -- 6.3 A Rastafari Yard and an Ethiopian Beit -- 6.4 Making Place, Reproducing Culture -- 6.5 Gender, Class and the Sexual Division of Labour -- 6.6 Being Rooted: Locating Identities in Time and Space -- References -- Chapter 7: Rastafari Citizen-Subjectivities -- 7.1 Modes of Belonging -- 7.2 The Legal Face of Citizenship -- 7.3 The Generation Born on the Land Grant.

Citizens of Everywhere traces the international careers of a cohort of extraordinary Indian women leaders during the final decades of colonial rule. Working in pursuit of the dual goals of Indian independence and women's rights, the women featured in this book established productive transnational connections to gain influence on the world stage, all against the backdrop of momentous events in India and beyond. In doing so, they contributed a distinct set of ideas to global conversations about rights and citizenship. By bringing this transnational activism to light, the author offers new perspectives on Indian nationalism. More broadly the book establishes Indian women as actors in the global histories of women's rights and international movements during the era of decolonisation.

1: Introduction: Cosmopolitan Sensibilities and Outernational Imaginaries -- 2: Word-Sound-Power -- 3: Ambiguities of Belonging -- 4: Narratives of Community: "His Majesty's People" -- 5: Making a Living -- 6: Family and Kinship: the Rastafari Yard -- 7: Rastafari Citizen-Subjectivities.