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"Cosmopolitanism" published on by Oxford University Press.

Cosmopolitanism is less an ideal than a description. It merely assumes that wherever and whenever history has set peoples in motion across national boundaries, sometimes by force, many of them and their descendants will show signs of divided loyalties and a hybrid identity. Cosmopolitanism should no longer be conceived as singular - an overrriding loyalty to humanity as a whole-but plural. Instead of an unhealthily skinny ethical abstraction, we now have many blooming, fleshed-out particulars. How much do these variants have in common with each other? How much of the concept's old normative sense is preserved or transformed by these empirical particulars? What is it exactly that makes them interesting, makes them valuable?

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Cosmopolitanisms -- Cosmopolitan and Vernacular in History -- Spectral Housing and Urban Cleansing: Notes on Millennial Mumbai -- Universalism and Belonging in the Logic of Capital -- The Senegalese Murid Trade Diaspora and the Making of a Vernacular Cosmopolitanism -- ''Crushing the Pistachio'': Eroticism in Senegal and the Art of Ousmane Ndiaye Dago -- The Many Faces of Cosmo-polis: Border Thinking and Critical Cosmopolitanism -- Zhang Dali's Dialogue: Conversation with a City -- Cosmopolitan De-scriptions: Shanghai and Hong Kong -- Contributors -- Index

Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Feeling Cuban; 1. Un Tipo Típico: Alvarez Guedes Takes the Stage; 2. Cuban Miami on the Air; 3. Nostalgic Pleasures; 4. The Transnational Life of Diversión; 5. Digital Diversión: Feeling Cuban Online; Notes; Works Cited; Index; About the Author.

The contributions to the current issue of Statsvetenskaplig Tidskrift is dedicated to "Cosmopolitanism." It includes research from the project "KOSMOPOLIT," with participating scholars from the universities of Stockholm, Lund, & Malmo. The disciplines involved are mainly political science & social anthropology. Several aspects of cosmopolitanism are discussed, particularly its widespread nature due to increased travel & migration, as well as media growth. Also, the contrasting aspects of "bottom-up" & "top-down" cosmopolitanism are presented. A. Barral

A review essay on a book by Seyla Benhabib, Another Cosmopolitanism (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006).

"Contemporary Cosmopolitanism is the first, much-needed, introduction to contemporary political cosmopolitanism. Although it has its roots in classical philosophy and politics, Cosmopolitanism has undergone a major revival in the last forty years, stirring far-reaching and intense international debates.Cosmopolitanism is a way of thought and life which entails an identification of the individual with the whole humankind, and implies a moral obligation to promote social and political justice at the global level. Contemporary cosmopolitanism reflects a global state that is already in itself highly cosmopolitan, and represents an attempt to solve the new problems raised by this situation, to reappraise a number of traditional conceptual categories in the light of changes having already occurred or that are still taking place, to develop new ones, as well as to encourage and guide political-institutional reform projects.Taraborrelli provides clear descriptions of the three main forms of contemporary cosmopolitanism - moral, political-legal and cultural - described through the thought of various figures representative of the more significant approaches: Appiah, Archibugi, Beitz, Benhabib, Bhabha, Held, Kaldor, Nussbaum, Pogge, Sousa Santos. This book provides a sound and comprehensive basis for the study of cosmopolitanism, ideal as a starting point for the discussion of issues of widespread interest such as human rights, global justice, migration, multiculturalism"--

Is the current global system compatible with cosmopolitanism, a universalist approach which grants no inherent moral significance to the state? In this volume, prominent theorists and International Relations scholars debate the implications of cosmopolitanism for state sovereignty, suprastate legitimacy, and the reform of cities, states and regional projects - as well as some encompassing world government.