Cosmopolitan and Vernacular in History

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Cosmopolitanisms 1
4. Cosmopolitan and Vernacular in History 15
5. Spectral Housing and Urban Cleansing: Notes on Millennial Mumbai 54
6. Universalism and Belonging in the Logic of Capital 82
7. The Senegalese Murid Trade Diaspora and the Making of a Vernacular Cosmopolitanism 111
8. ‘‘Crushing the Pistachio’’: Eroticism in Senegal and the Art of Ousmane Ndiaye Dago 138
9. The Many Faces of Cosmo-polis: Border Thinking and Critical Cosmopolitanism 157
10. Zhang Dali’s Dialogue: Conversation with a City 189
11. Cosmopolitan De-scriptions: Shanghai and Hong Kong 209
12. Contributors 229
13. Index 233