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Showing 1 to 20 of 131 for “"Cosmopolitanism"”.
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Decolonising Cosmopolitanism
Cosmopolitanism has recently become a topic on the global agenda of epistemic decolonisation. Cosmopolitanism, with its Greek etymology, is a term of art originating with Western moral and political philosophy. Yet, the term is now widely used across the humanities and social sciences, opening …
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Cosmopolitanism Now: Fragmented Belonging
<p>Abstract</p> <p>This thesis reconceptualizes cosmopolitanism for the contemporary moment as fragmented belonging, critiquing and moving beyond traditional cosmopolitan frameworks grounded in universal reason, seamless integration, or coherent identity. Through close readings of Teju Cole’s …
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Business Ethics and Global Age Cosmopolitanism
… how to create and teach an ethics of Global Age Cosmopolitanism (GAC). I approach this problem through a philosophical analysis focusing on political, economic, and educational principles. It is my hope that such an ethics will cause university professors and students to become engaged citizens …
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Mbalax: Cosmopolitanism in Senegalese Urban Popular Music
… examination of Senegalese modern identity and cosmopolitanism through urban dance music. My central argument is that local popular culture thrives not in spite of transnational influences and processes, but as a result of a Senegalese cosmopolitanism that has long valued the borrowing and …
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Cosmopolitanism in multicultural children’s texts and reader response
… (Brooks, 2006). Adding a theoretical view of cosmopolitanism (Hull & Stornaiuolo, 2014) can show how students’ worldviews and stances are shaped through the inclusion of multicultural children's texts. This study is a qualitative practitioner inquiry that included 15 third-grade students. The …
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Postwar art and historical roots of Beirut's cosmopolitanism
… dissertation charts the production of Lebanese cosmopolitanism from the nineteenth century to the present, examining how this putatively national trait is established through the visual arts. It contends that in order to understand the strategies of a group of artists who have come to represent …
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The Gospel of Cosmopolitanism: Conflict Resolution in Barbara Kingsolver's Fiction
… Guides) Kingsolver often promotes the ideas of cosmopolitanism, which have recently been articulated by Kwame Anthony Appiah in his book Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers. Appiah argues that cosmopolitanism can be represented by two main ideas: "One is the idea that we have …
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Creating Mediated Cosmopolitanism? Global Media Flows and the Beijing Youth
… experience different forms of cultural cosmopolitanism through the consumption of growing flows of de-territorialized media products – mainly, but not solely, US-led Western media products, including films and television programmes. It also examines how this generation is negotiating …
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Materials of Buddhist Culture: Aesthetics and Cosmopolitanism at Mindroling Monastery
This dissertation investigates the relationships between Buddhism and culture as exemplified at Mindroling Monastery. Focusing on the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, this work argues that Mindroling was a seminal religio-cultural institution that played a key role in cultivating …
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Black feminist aesthetics and cosmopolitanism, 1920s-present: Narratives of postcolonial Bildungsroman
… an intersectional analysis of self-becoming, cosmopolitanism, American citizenship, creative and expressive output, and self-determination. The intended outcome of this research for transformative learning, which historically privileges Western epistemological perspectives on ethics and …
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Sojourner consumer behaviour : the influence of nostalgia, ethnocentrism, cosmopolitanism and place attachment
In today’s interconnected world, increasing numbers of consumers are becoming involved in an internationally mobile lifestyle. During this transitional event, these international consumers become temporary residents in a foreign host country. Transient consumers are formally known as sojourners. …
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In Search of a Definition for International Terrorism: Balancing Sovereignty and Cosmopolitanism
Defining international terrorism has been an unsolved problem of international law for quite some time. All those who aspire to the promotion of international criminal justice and the fight against impunity agree that the formulation of a universal definition for international terrorism will …
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Political Cosmopolitanism: A Humanized and Socialized Account of Global Citizenship in Action
… account of cosmopolitan global citizenship. Cosmopolitanism has merits and applicability in our globalized society, but its basis on universalism and impartiality can unjustly homogenize public discourse and limit citizenship activity. In my first chapter I interrogate these concepts and …
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Curriculum Studies as an international conversation: cosmopolitanism in a Latin American key
… a cosmopolitan project in Curriculum Studies, a cosmopolitanism that I can only sing in a Latin American key.
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Education for democratic citizenship and cosmopolitanism: The case of the republic of Namibia
… education system to consolidate the idea · of cosmopolitanism, that is; hospitality and forgiveness, if the NEPAD initiative is to be successful and if certain Millennium Development Goals were to be achieved by 2015.
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The March of Judicial Cosmopolitanism and the Legacy of Enemy Combatant Case Law
This thesis explores the concept of judicial cosmopolitanism and its prevalence in enemy combatant case law. The author draws upon the theoretical and philosophical underpinnings of cosmopolitanism and cosmopolitan law to describe judicial cosmopolitanism as form of legal discourse through which …
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A SEARCH FOR CRITICAL COSMOPOLITANISM: AN IDEOLOGICAL CRITICISM OF SEXUAL MINORITIES UGANDA’S WEBSITE
… critical intercultural communication: critical cosmopolitanism, transnational activism, the global-local dialectic, power, and identity. Critical cosmopolitanism, as conceptualized in Communication Studies by Miriam Sobré-Denton and Nilanjana Bardhan (2013), “is a world- and Other-oriented …
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Poetics of Dislocation: Comparative Cosmopolitanism in Charlotte Brontë, Flora Tristan, and Toru Dutt
This thesis explores three women writers from nineteenth-century, who used the genre of autofiction to transcribe their familial trauma and dislocation to reconstitute themselves with the help of their empathic readers. Charlotte Brontë's novels, Jane Eyre and Villette, Flora Tristan's memoir from …
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NO ONE IS ILLEGAL: DECOLONIAL COSMOPOLITANISM, MIGRANT SUBJECTIVITY, AND THE COMMUNICATION OF SOCIAL CHANGE
This study seeks to understand how the migrant rights group No One Is Illegal’s advocacy works to rearticulate migrant subjectivity while furthering our understanding of what it means to communicate critically and ethically as global citizens in the context of postcolonial globality. Informed by …
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