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Cosmopolitan Values in a Central Indian Steel Town
Jonathan Parry
- pp 325-343
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Anthropology and the New Cosmopolitanism as mentioned in this paper examines the rise of postcolonial movements responsive to global rights movements, which espouse a politics of dignity, cultural difference, democracy, dissent and tolerance.Abstract:
Anthropology and the New Cosmopolitanism inaugurates a new, situated, cosmopolitan anthropology. It examines the rise of postcolonial movements responsive to global rights movements, which espouse a politics of dignity, cultural difference, democracy, dissent and tolerance. The book starts from the premise that cosmopolitanism is not, and never has been, a 'western', elitist ideal exclusively. The book's major innovation is to show the way cosmopolitans beyond the North - in Papua New Guinea, Indonesia and Malaysia, India, Africa, the Middle East and Mexico - juggle universalist commitments with roots in local cultural milieus and particular communities.read more
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Networks, Labour and Migration among Indian Muslim Artisans
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an ethnographic account of life, work and migration in a North Indian Muslim-dominated woodworking industry, and examine how woodworkers utilize local and transnational networks, based on identity, religiosity, and affective circulations, to access resources, support and forms of mutuality.
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Lifestyle returnees at 'home' : the second-generation Turkish-Germans' search for self in Antalya
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used a lifestyle migration lens to explore the second-generation Turkish-Germans' "return" migration to their ancestral homeland in Antalya, Turkey.
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Sharing or Appropriation? Share Systems, Class and Commodity Relations in Scottish Fisheries
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the dependence of the fishery on commodity production and its reliance on labour as a commodity makes it fully capitalist, even in the presence of a share system, and explore the social and ecological consequences of the development of these more conventionally capitalist class relations.
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Suicide in a central Indian steel town
TL;DR: In the industrial area around steel town of Bhilai in Chhattisgarh, the suicide rate has increased dramatically over the last 20 years and it is the aristocracy of public sector labour that is significantly more susceptible.
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The dialectics of urban cosmopolitanism: between tolerance and intolerance in cities of strangers
TL;DR: The authors compare Eastern Mediterranean cities historically famous for their cosmopolitanism like Istanbul and Thessalonika, contemporary post-Communist cities like Sarajevo or Odessa and twenty-first-century global cities like Cairo or Lon...
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The Cosmopolitan Society and Its Enemies
TL;DR: In the 21st century, the conditio humana cannot be understood nationally or locally but only globally as discussed by the authors, and this constitutes a revolution in the social sciences, which constitutes a change in the way of thinking.