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Showing 1 to 20 of 368 for “"cosmopolitan"”.
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Cosmopolitan Subjects: An Anthropological Critique of Cosmopolitan Criminal Law and Political Modernity
… the question of how we should understand the cosmopolitan power to punish the criminal embodied in the new global criminal courts, and whether cosmopolitan law can serve as the basis for what an earlier generation of anthropologists would have called a culturally-neutral global order? The …
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A poetic pilgrimage towards a cosmopolitan world
… work for a persuasive new understanding of the cosmopolitan idea. Pursuing these topics, I developed a “poetic-philosophical praxis” intended to reveal the passages toward and contours of the cosmopolitan world in which Hammarskjöld lived and for which he lived. Praxis, as I understand it, does …
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The oriental flâneur : Khalil Bey and cosmopolitan experience
… and art collector whose career took him from one cosmopolitan city to another. Although, his collection of French art has gotten considerable attention in Western scholarship, due primarily to his commission of Gustave Courbet's Origin of the World, an in-depth study of his life hasn't yet been …
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Education for global citizenship : an intercultural and cosmopolitan perspective
… thesis examines two existing frameworks, cosmopolitanism and intercultural relations, in an effort to establish a strong theoretical foundation for the support and development of a moral, ethical, and social justice perspective of education for global citizenship programs in colleges and …
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Cosmopolitan Encounters: Sanskrit and Persian at the Mughal Court
In this dissertation, I analyze interactions between Sanskrit and Persian literary cultures at the Mughal court during the years 1570-1650 C.E. During this period, the Mughals rose to prominence as one of the most powerful dynasties of the early modern world and patronized Persian as a language of …
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United Kingdom Interventions in Africa: Constructivist Cosmopolitan Foreign Policy Analysis
… I have employed the constructivist cosmopolitan approach to analyse British foreign policy towards the empirical cases. In terms of the cases, I have focused on the causes of the British interventions, to capture the similarities but also the differences between the cases. The thesis …
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What’s in a Frame? Cosmopolitan Morality, the Media and Interventionism
… contributes to this void through forwarding cosmopolitan morality framing as a new theoretical framework. Consideration is given to how appeals to a cosmopolitan moral consciousness can resonate and build support for or legitimise particular foreign policies. The thesis further explores how …
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Cosmopolitan Democracy: Re-evaluation of Globalization and World Economic System
<p>This thesis examines cosmopolitan democracy theory as a method of addressing the problems of globalization. I begin by introducing the concept of “cosmopolitan democracy.” I then proceed to discuss contemporary political climate and its relation to critiques of globalization. Finally, I conclude …
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The Political Theory of Migration : A Critical Cosmopolitan Care Approach
… and a substantive proposal, called the Critical Cosmopolitan Care approach for overcoming the deficiencies of the most mainstream literature. The criticism and the proposal are formulated on two levels. On the epistemological level, the underlying methodological nationalism of the most …
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Strange(r) Maps: The cosmopolitan geopolitics of Sri Lankan tourism
… the Global North and South in what I term "cosmopolitan geopolitics." As geopolitics can be identified as the relationship between territories and resources, cosmopolitan geopolitics is concerned with the power relations when such elements as culture, authenticity, history, and religion are …
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Toxins and Toxicity from the Cosmopolitan, Bloom-Forming Dinoflagellate Karlodinium micrum
Karlodinium micrum (Leadbeater and Dodge) Taylor was first described in the United States during an investigation into the cause of repeated fish kills at an estuarine aquaculture facility located on a tributary of the Chesapeake Bay, MD, USA. As part of that investigation we described toxins in …
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Humanitarian shame and cosmopolitan nationalism: Norwegian volunteers at home and abroad
… humanitarian actors and volunteers as “rootless cosmopolitans” or “transnationals” motivated by either selfish or altruistic concerns to help distant strangers. Conversely, the dissertation shows that DiH staff and volunteers felt deeply ashamed by Norwegian affluence and their government’s …
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Reviving cosmopolitan Beirut : a case study of three modernist art spaces
Prior to the Lebanese Civil War, Beirut boasted a vibrant art scene. The war took its toll on the city's infrastructure, leading to the relocation and shutdown of the existing galleries and art institutions. Since the war, art in Beirut is being revived along different tracks, in tandem with its …
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More than English: Karen refugees negotiating their lifestyle in a cosmopolitan city
… Resettling in a new environment, particularly a cosmopolitan one in which the Karen refugees have to adjust their new lives to a neoliberal lifestyle, is a very difficult challenge. The challenge becomes obvious when we see a large number of refugees who have no place to work due to the …
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24 frames a second: the cosmopolitan cinephilia of South Korean college students
… as exemplified by the film club is largely cosmopolitan in nature, reflecting the enormous circulation of international movies and film scholarship across national borders. The opening chapters first discuss how cinephiles have come to share cosmopolitan tastes through various means such as …
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Settling in a global city: transnational practices and cosmopolitan openness in sociality patterns
… intersection between transnational practices and cosmopolitan attitudes in their sociality patterns, and how multiple identities are negotiated in these patterns. Transnational scholars have mostly focused on single ethnicities and their respective social networks (Glick–Schiller, et al., 2011). …
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Conceptualizing Literature Pedagogy: World, Global, and Cosmopolitan Orientations to Teaching Literature in English
… emphasizing education for world, global, and cosmopolitan values. One way to understand the different values underlying literature pedagogy is to examine beliefs about the good of teaching literature as these are manifested in concepts that demonstrate various orientations to teaching …
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