The cosmopolitan vision
01 Jan 2008-pp 225-231
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the view of sociologists presented in a recent book of Ulrich Beck (Macht und Gegenmacht im globalen Zeitalter, 2002, translated into French under the title Pouvoir et contre-pouvior a l'ere de la mondialisation, 2003), and show some analogies between Beck and Held.
Abstract: Sociology was born as an attempt to delimit an object of investigation offered by society as a social reality. The ambition was that of “treating the social facts as things” (Durkheim) or of understanding and explaining the social relations by respecting an “axiological neutrality” (Max Weber). Today, however, we are in the presence of a new kind of sociologists, and they are by no means the less popular ones, who are not trying to avoid assessments in their analysis of the present social world. I have in mind especially two sociologists, Ulrich Beck (Munich) and David Held (London). I will discuss in particular the view of sociology presented in a recent book of Ulrich Beck (Macht und Gegenmacht im globalen Zeitalter, 2002, translated into French under the title Pouvoir et contre-pouvoir a l’ere de la mondialisation, 2003), and I will show some analogies between Beck and Held. Finally, I will try to identify the points hat make the present sociological epistemology different from that of the great founders of this science.
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...The subject matter that is core to intersectionality is analysed in other social science literature using concepts such as cosmopolitanism (Beck, 2006), multiculturalism (Phillips, 2009), anti-racism, hybridity (Gilroy, 2004), identity and nationalism (Brubaker, 1996; Calhoun, 1995)....
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Key elements, thinkers, and texts;
Historical context;
Current state of the art;
Methodological issues;
Merits and advantages of the approach/area of studies;
Limitations and critical issues of the approach/area of studies;
Directions for future research
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...But for Beck (2006, 2010), cosmopolitanism is a world without boundaries: whether between states, markets, cultures and, we might add, epistemologies....
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...…are morally arbitrary and that patriotism, for example, is morally unacceptable; and the ‘new (or rooted) cosmopolitans’ such as Appiah (2006), Beck (2006) and Kymlicka and Walker (2012), who advocate a form of global moral ethics drawn from ‘a synthesis of liberal universalism and…...
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TL;DR: In this paper, the concept of intersectionality is reviewed and further developed for more effective use, and six dilemmas in the debates on the concept are disentangled, addressed and resolved: the distinction between structural and political intersectionality; the tension between categories and inequalities; the significance of class; the balance between a fluidity and stability; varyingly competitive, cooperative, hierarchical and hegemonic relations between inequalities and between projects; and the conundrum of "visibility" in the tension of the mutual shaping and the "mutual constitution of inequalities.
Abstract: The concept of intersectionality is reviewed and further developed for more effective use. Six dilemmas in the debates on the concept are disentangled, addressed and resolved: the distinction between structural and political intersectionality; the tension between ‘categories’ and ‘inequalities’; the significance of class; the balance between a fluidity and stability; the varyingly competitive, cooperative, hierarchical and hegemonic relations between inequalities and between projects; and the conundrum of ‘visibility’ in the tension between the ‘mutual shaping’ and the ‘mutual constitution’ of inequalities. The analysis draws on critical realism and on complexity theory in order to find answers to the dilemmas in intersectionality theory.
485 citations
Book•
19 Nov 2008TL;DR: The Handbook of Journalism Studies as discussed by the authors is a comprehensive resource for scholars and graduate students working in journalism, media studies, and communication around the globe, focusing on the current state of the art and setting an agenda for future research in an international context.
Abstract: This Handbook charts the growing area of journalism studies, exploring the current state of theory and setting an agenda for future research in an international context. The volume is structured around theoretical and empirical approaches, and covers scholarship on news production and organizations; news content; journalism and society; and journalism in a global context. Emphasizing comparative and global perspectives, each chapter explores:
Key elements, thinkers, and texts;
Historical context;
Current state of the art;
Methodological issues;
Merits and advantages of the approach/area of studies;
Limitations and critical issues of the approach/area of studies;
Directions for future research
Offering broad international coverage from top-tier contributors, this volume ranks among the first publications to serve as a comprehensive resource addressing theory and scholarship in journalism studies. As such, the Handbook of Journalism Studies is a must-have resource for scholars and graduate students working in journalism, media studies, and communication around the globe.
420 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine three facets of the global environmental change paradigm: making global kinds of knowledge, globalising environmental values and the governance of knowledge-making, as suggested through the perspectives of a nascent geography of science.
Abstract: During its 20 years of publication, the journal Global Environmental Change has given visibility and coherence to the eponymous research paradigm. Global environmental research has brought forth new kinds of knowledge about the multi-scale interactions between physical and social dimensions of the environment. This essay reflects on some of the problems with making and governing these global kinds of knowledge, as suggested through the perspectives of a nascent geography of science. I use climate change – an emblematic theme of global environmental change research over the last 20 years – to examine three facets of the global environmental change paradigm: making global kinds of knowledge, globalising environmental values and the governance of knowledge-making. New global kinds of knowledge have gained power and visibility in contemporary scientific, public and political fora and yet such knowledge can be ‘brittle’, easily cracked and broken. A geography of global environmental change knowledge therefore demands we turn our attention away from the globalising instincts that so easily erase difference and collapse meaning, and instead concern ourselves with understanding the relationships between knowledge-making and human culture in evolving places. Only then will we recognise the ambiguities, voids and blind spots in our understanding of the world's complexity.
332 citations
Book•
30 Jun 2006
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a collection of books that bring together the best of this intellectual diversity into one collection, focusing on nationalism in political, social and cultural theory.
Abstract: Nationalism has long excited debate in political, social and cultural theory and remains a key field of enquiry among historians, anthropologists, sociologists as well as political scientists. It is also one of the critical media issues of our time. There are, however, surprisingly few volumes that bring together the best of this intellectual diversity into one collection.
323 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify and map from the literature the diverse conceptions of Global Citizenship (hereafter GC) and identify two general forms of GC: cosmopolitan-based and advocacy-based.
Abstract: The promotion of ‘Global Citizenship’ (hereafter GC) has emerged as a goal of schooling in many countries, symbolising a shift away from national towards more global conceptions of citizenship. It currently incorporates a proliferation of approaches and terminologies, mirroring both the diverse conceptions of its nature and the socio-politico contexts within which it is appropriated. This paper seeks to clarify this ambiguity by identifying and mapping from the literature the diverse conceptions of GC. We construct a typology to map this diversity and identify two general forms of GC: cosmopolitan-based and advocacy-based. The former incorporates four distinct conceptions of GC, namely the political, moral, economic and cultural; the latter incorporates four other conceptions, namely the social, critical, environmental and spiritual. Subsequently, we briefly illustrate how the typology can be used to evaluate the critical features of a curriculum plan designed to promote GC in England. The typology provides a novel and powerful means to identify and distinguish the key features of the very diverse range of educational policies and programmes that promote GC.
318 citations