Cosmopolitan Multiculturalism
Cosmopolitan multiculturalism refers to a perspective that embraces diversity and promotes the coexistence of different cultures within a society. It emphasizes the idea of global citizenship and the recognition of shared humanity across national and cultural boundaries. This approach seeks to foster understanding, respect, and cooperation among people from diverse backgrounds.
6 Key excerpts on "Cosmopolitan Multiculturalism"
eBook - ePubCosmopolitanism
Ideals and Realities
- David Held(Author)
- 2013(Publication Date)
- Polity(Publisher)
...Against this background, the meaning of cosmopolitanism is set out in philosophical and institutional terms, in the fourth and fifth sections, respectively. The argument is made that not only is cosmopolitanism increasingly important to politics and human welfare, but that it ought also to be embraced further in thinking about the proper form of globalization and global governance. A final section explores some basic gaps between cosmopolitan principles and institutions that need to be overcome if cosmopolitanism is to extend its purchase on governance structures and, thus, on the conditions for greater accountability, democracy and social justice in global politics. Globalization Globalization has become the ‘big idea’ of our times, even though it is frequently employed in such a way that it lacks precise definition. Moreover, it is so often used in political debate that it is in danger of becoming devoid of analytical value. Nonetheless, if the term is properly formulated, it does capture important elements of change in the contemporary world which can be usefully specified further. Globalization can best be understood if it is conceived as a spatial phenomenon, lying on a continuum with ‘the local’ at one end and ‘the global’ at the other. It implies a shift in the spatial form of human organization and activity to transcontinental or interregional patterns of activity, interaction, and the exercise of power (Held et al., 1999). Today, globalization embraces at least four distinct types of change. First, it involves a stretching of social, political and economic activities across political frontiers, regions and continents. But if these are something other than occasional or random, then something else is suggested: intensification. Thus, second, globalization is marked by the growing magnitude of networks and flows of trade, investment, finance, culture and so on...
eBook - ePub- Montserrat Guibernau(Author)
- 2013(Publication Date)
- Polity(Publisher)
...There is a big gap, however, between the theoretical bow to cosmopolitan principles and social reality, since, at present, not a single institution or organization is recognized by all humans as capable of enforcing compliance with cosmopolitan principles and having sufficient power, legitimacy and means to punish those transgressing them. The global world is not guided by cosmopolitan principles, although there are some signs that a growing transnational movement, if still incipient, is beginning to emerge. Yet some cosmopolitan values are embedded in some international and regional institutions, hence stepping-stones exist. This chapter is divided into four sections. First, it provides a brief conceptual analysis of the consequences of applying ethical cosmopolitanism to legal, political, economic and cultural issues. Second, it focuses on a sociological issue, that is, the distinction between the concepts of ‘global’ and ‘cosmopolitan’ culture. Here, I consider the ethical component absent from most theories of cosmopolitan culture and identity. Third, it compares national and cosmopolitan identity by analysing five dimensions: psychological, cultural, historical, territorial and political. The chapter concludes by assessing whether nationalism and cosmopolitanism are able to coexist and investigates the specific conditions that would render this possible. Cosmopolitanism: a Multilevel Theory Cosmopolitanism operates at different levels and acquires a different meaning according to whether we refer to legal, political, economic or cultural issues. Legal Cosmopolitanism Legal cosmopolitanism is concerned primarily with global justice and the implementation of human rights...
eBook - ePub- Luke Martell(Author)
- 2016(Publication Date)
- Polity(Publisher)
...The first is cosmopolitan democracy and involves the establishment of political institutions at an international level in a cosmopolitan form (for a shorter article on the themes of this chapter see Martell 2011). This focuses mostly, but not entirely, on formal political institutions that can be set up globally, and is often fired by social democratic and liberal impulses to counter or regulate global neoliberalism and attack problems such as world poverty, conflict and abuses of human rights. The focus here is on political cosmopolitanism. Cultural cosmopolitanism is raised in other chapters, for instance in discussions of cultural hybridization. This chapter looks critically at cosmopolitanism but also looks for positive bases for its success. I wish to break away from polarized arguments either for or against cosmopolitanism. Material interests may be the key to both critical and positive approaches to cosmopolitanism, seeing where its problems are but also where it might succeed. The debate on cosmopolitanism can be quite divided. Those who have mixed feelings tend not to have a very analytical basis for dealing with this ambiguity. Supporters who see ambiguities in cosmopolitanism but want to continue with it may acknowledge problems but put their faith in hope and strength of vision to overcome them (e.g., Fine 2006; Archibugi 2004). Fine (2006), for instance, talks about cosmopolitanism that combines an awareness of violence in the world with a normative vision of peace, and sees it providing a mode of understanding as much as a legal and institutional order (p. 49). He argues for keeping in mind the normativity of cosmopolitanism in the face of violence (p.51). Fine endorses Kant’s view that cosmopolitanism is right even if the public and state are not cosmopolitan (p. 52) and Arendt’s argument for taking bearings from the idea of cosmopolitanism rather than its actuality (p. 58)...
eBook - ePub- Ricard Zapata-Barrero, Dirk Jacobs, Riva Kastoryano, Ricard Zapata-Barrero, Dirk Jacobs, Riva Kastoryano(Authors)
- 2021(Publication Date)
- Routledge(Publisher)
...4 Cosmopolitanism Moral universalism and the politics of migration John Erik Fossum and Espen D.H. Olsen DOI: 10.4324/9781003119333-5 1 Introduction This chapter analyzes cosmopolitanism from the vantage-point of ‘reflexive conceptual knowledge’, as the editors define it. Concepts are far from neutral, and the meaning they are ascribed and the use to which they are put are privy to a range of factors within and beyond the scientific field. For instance, concepts are shaped by the manner in which research is conducted and how analysts frame the objects they study. Concepts are socially constructed. They therefore do not operate in a political and ideological vacuum; they are shaped by ongoing political and ideological discourses and the contexts within which the discourses are conducted. All these factors have bearings on our conception of cosmopolitanism. In presenting this core term in more detail, we take into consideration the editors’ observation to the effect that concepts are ideology dependent, policy/politics dependent, context dependent, discipline dependent, and language dependent. In the following, we start by outlining cosmopolitanism’s different traditions and meanings over time. Cosmopolitanism has deep historical roots and has come in various shapes: as a moral theory; an ethical stance; a special version of democracy (cosmopolitan democracy); and a way of life (Holton, 2009). Tracking its different usages over time underlines the important structuring effects of different types of context. One such context is intellectual and refers to how cosmopolitanism has become privy to increased academic specialization and the distinct ways of seeing that mark the academic traditions that have shaped cosmopolitanism: (moral) philosophy, the history of ideas, political science, law, and sociology. Some analysts underline in particular the central role of cosmopolitan law, which ‘may well be its most crucial indicator’ (Holton, 2009 : 198)...
eBook - ePub- April Carter(Author)
- 2013(Publication Date)
- Routledge(Publisher)
...We examined this conflict in relation to refugees in Chapter 5. Since the growth of armed ‘humanitarian intervention’ in the 1990s it has become a serious issue whether governments should expect their soldiers to risk death in keeping the peace in foreign lands. A cosmopolitan position suggests that where the need is really acute, the interests of noncompatriots should have priority over fellow citizens. In this context the concept of ‘good international citizenship’ as practised by states is relevant. This phrase was coined by the Australian Labor Foreign Secretary, Gareth Evans, and the concept was implicit in the early foreign policy commitments of the Blair Labour Government: to increase economic aid, refrain from selling arms to dictators, honour international human rights obligations. 120 There are, as experience has illustrated, dangers of hypocrisy and even dishonesty in promoting such a concept. There are also dangers that good international citizenship, or an ‘ethical foreign policy’, will be interpreted in ways that impose western values and economic and political interests. The role of those who endorse cosmopolitan commitments is clearly to press their governments to pursue policies that take more seriously wider commitments. This seems indeed to be one goal of many advocates of cosmopolitan education, including Nussbaum herself. This task can often be pursued through both national and transnational campaigning bodies. Therefore the concept of global citizenship as an extension of national citizenship, and the concept of global citizenship as membership of global civil society, can coincide. Radicals deeply sceptical about existing governments will, however, interpret global citizenship as a more purely oppositional stance. There are, of course, distinctions to be made between what we expect governments to do on our behalf with our support, and what individuals choose to do in addition with their own time and money...
eBook - ePubHome Territories
Media, Mobility and Identity
- David Morley(Author)
- 2002(Publication Date)
- Routledge(Publisher)
...10 COSMOPOLITICS Boundary, hybridity and identity Cosmopolitics and connexity: the new condition of the world? In this world of hypermobility not only are we often engaged in border-crossings of one kind or another, but the nature and functions of borders themselves are shifting. Thus Balibar argues that borders “are no longer the shores of politics, but have indeed become … things within the space of the political itself. However, as he notes, the fact that borders are vacillating does not mean that they are disappearing. On the contrary, he argues, far from Ohmae's vision of the “borderless world” discussed earlier, we see increasingly that “borders are being both multiplied and reduced in their localisation and their function, they are being thinned and doubled, becoming border zones, regions or countries where one can reside and live”. 1 The transformation of the means of international communication has, according to Balibar relativised the functions of the point of entry and by contrast revalorised internal controls, creating within each territory zones of transit and transition, populations awaiting entry or exit, individually or collectively engaged in a process of negotiation of their … mode of presence (and … rights) with one or more states. 2 In parallel with Bauman's argument noted earlier, Samir Amin notes that the globalisation of the world economy stops well short of allowing any untrammelled mobility of labour from the colonial peripheries to the metropolitan centres, and that while “the mobility of commodities and capital leaves national space to embrace the whole world, the labour force [largely] remains enclosed within the national framework”. 3 Indeed, one could argue that, in terms of immigration controls, people are now more tied to their country of birth than at any time this century...
