Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgements x
5. Introduction What’s in a Word? What’s in a Question? 1
6. Part I. The Question of ‘Whose Cosmopolitanism?’ Provocations and Responses
7. Provocations
8. Chapter 1 Whose Cosmopolitanism? Multiple, Globally Enmeshed and Subaltern 23
9. Chapter 2 Whose Cosmopolitanism? Genealogies of Cosmopolitanism 29
10. Chapter 3 Whose Cosmopolitanism? And Whose Humanity? 31
11. Chapter 4 Whose Cosmopolitanism? The Violence of Idealizations and the Ambivalence of Self 34
12. Chapter 5 Whose Cosmopolitanism? Postcolonial Criticism and the Realities of Neocolonial Power 37
13. Responses
14. Chapter 6 Wounded Cosmopolitanism 39
15. Chapter 7 What Do We Do with Cosmopolitanism? 49
16. Chapter 8 Cosmopolitan Theory and the Daily Pluralism of Life 57
17. Chapter 9 Chance, Contingency and the Face-to-Face Encounter 65
18. Chapter 10 Cosmopolitanism and Intelligibility 74
19. Part II The Questions of Where, When, How and Whether Towards a Processual Situated Cosmopolitanism
20. Encounters, Landscapes and Displacements
21. Chapter 11 ‘It’s Cool to Be Cosmo’ Tibetan Refugees, Indian Hosts, Richard Gere and ‘Crude Cosmopolitanism’ in Dharamsala 83
22. Chapter 12 Diasporic Cosmopolitanism Migrants, Sociabilities and City Making 103
23. Chapter 13 Freedom and Laughter in an Uncertain World Language, Expression and Cosmopolitan Experience 121
24. Cinema, Literature and the Social Imagination
25. Chapter 14 Narratives of Exile Cosmopolitanism beyond the Liberal Imagination 139
26. Chapter 15 The Uneasy Cosmopolitans of Code Unknown 160
27. Chapter 16 Pregnant Possibilities Cosmopolitanism, Kinship and Reproductive Futurism in Maria Full of Grace and In America 175
28. Chapter 17 Backstage/Onstage Cosmopolitanism Jia Zhangke’s The World 187
29. Endless War or Domains of Sociability? Conflict, Instabilities and Aspirations
30. Chapter 18 Politics, Cosmopolitics and Preventive Development at the Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan Border 199
31. Chapter 19 Memory of War and Cosmopolitan Solidarity 218
32. Chapter 20 Cosmopolitanism and Conviviality in an Age of Perpetual War 232
33. Contributors 245
34. Index 249