Political Sociologies of the Cultural Encounter

This book offers transdisciplinary scholarship which challenges the agendas of and markers around traditional social scientific fields.

Autorentext

Barrie Axford is Professor Emeritus in Politics at Oxford Brookes University, UK, where he is also a member of the Centre for Global Politics Economy and Society (GPES).

Alistair Brisbourne is a Research Manager at accountancy and business advisory firm BDO LLP, UK.

Claudia Lueders is a Teaching Fellow in Politics at Oxford Brookes University, UK.

Sandra Halperin is a Professor in the Department of Politics and International Relations at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.

Inhalt

Introduction: The Importance of the 'Cultural Encounter' Part I: Encounters Beyond Borders 1. What is a Border Comrade? 2. Seeing from the Border with Chris Rumford: Towards Cosmopolitan Borders and a Multiperspectival Border Studies 3. Politics of Space, Strangeness and Culture in the Global Age Part II: Everyday Encounters and Strangeness 4. The Complex Trajectories of the Commoner: Cosmopolitanism, Localisation and Nationalism 5. Artistic Encounters with Difference, Aesthetic Cosmopolitanism and the Political Imagination 6. The Story of the Ship-in-a-bottle: Encountering Strangeness and Familiarity through a Globalised Object 7. Don't Look Back in Anger: A reflection on strangeness and borders in academia Part III: Global Studies and Interdisciplinarity 8. Europe in Crises: Europe's Others and Other Europes from a Global Perspective 9. Globalization: Interactive and Integral 10. Cosmopolitan Borders, Strangeness, and Inter-Cultural Encounters 11. Religion and Globalising Processes: An Investigation into the Relationship between Religious Practices and Institutions and the Complex Historical Forms of Global Social Change 12. Challenges of Globalization and the Cosmopolitan Imagination: The Implications of the Anthropocene