Year: 2014
Type: article
Abstract: To me, the collection of articles gathered here is really exciting.What we have here are five fresh, challenging and inspiring contributions to the discussion of the idea of cosmopolitan theorizing by practising it.All 'dialogue papers' point out substantial problems and develop theoretical innovations that refer to historical experiences related to different parts of the world, i.e. to different path-dependencies of modernity.That puts me in a position of listening and learning.I feel enriched and see myself challenged to further develop my ideas on 'metamorphosis of the world' and 'emancipatory catastrophism'.Ana María Vara starts by asking the key question: Are we really witnessing a 'metamorphosis' of neocolonialism to cosmopolitization?What kind of processes and steps do we have to distinguish, and what criteria do we have to answer this question?What does 'enforced inclusion of global others', the definition of cosmopolitization, exactly mean?Who is enforced by whom to do what?Where did the power go?My idea of metamorphosis of postcolonialism, so far, is underdeveloped.I actually have three arguments:
Source: Current Sociology
Author: Ulrich Beck
Institution: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Language: English
Subfield: Anthropology
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4235958513