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Ramón Illán Bacca is one of the most representative novelists of the second half of the twentieth century of the Colombian Caribbean region for his humor inclusion, the record of popular media culture and the urban Caribbean area. This study analyzes how Bacca's representations of the Chinese, both in his newspaper articles and in his novels Deborah Kruel (2001) and La mujer barbuda (2011), reproduce the orientalist and sinophobic stereotypes of the Chinese as an inadmissible Otherness within the project of the Colombian universal Caribbean. This study shows the limits of the inclusion of difference in this cosmopolitan universalistic ideal. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cosmopolitan education is an ideal that transcends the boundaries of national historical and educational policy, but one that seems rather unrealistic in times of increasing national orientation of states. First, Aleida Assmann's rejection of cosmopolitanism in her attempt to rethink nation is critically examined. After a brief sketch of the struggles over memory and responsibility in Germany, the concept of a dialogical memory and the idea of a transnational culture of memory are discussed with regard to Germany and Japan. Finally, two concepts of cosmopolitical education are presented and the motivation for historical and self-critical education is reflected in a cosmopolitical perspective. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This study sought to investigate how cosmopolitanism and ethnocentrism can explain individual differences in global literacy. The study sample consisted of 730 participants (353 men and 377 women) ranging in age from 20 to 59 years (M = 40.16, SD = 10.78). After controlling for demographic variables, hierarchical regression analysis revealed that most subscales of cosmopolitanism, as well as a subscale of ethnocentrism were positively associated with global literacy. These findings challenge the view that a cosmopolitan orientation is superior, while an ethnocentric orientation is not conducive to fostering a global perspective. This study highlights the importance of valuing, maintaining, and identifying with one's own culture and values to obtain a global perspective. Our findings provide suggestions for fostering the development of personal characteristics that promote global literacy. Specifically, rather than focusing on resisting ethnocentrism, promoting global literacy can be achieved by advocating cosmopolitanism and encouraging the simultaneous existence of multiple cultural identifications at the local, national, and global levels. • Cosmopolitanism was positively associated with global literacy. • Ethnocentrism was also positively associated with global literacy. • Cosmopolitanism and ethnocentrism are not mutually exclusive. • Both cosmopolitan and ethnocentric personal dispositions may cultivate global literacy. • The coexistence of cultural identifications at the local and global levels is crucial. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to focus on Plutarch's view on cosmopolitanism which emerges from his treatise De exilio, an emblematic writing, as it allows recognizing that in Plutarch cosmopolitanism is not a merely political issue, but rather it reflects ethical and metaphysical concerns. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

According to several contemporary theorists of cosmopolitanism, the concept of sovereignty -- enabling the political authority to be core and head of society -- should be overcome. Therefore, juridical and political institutions are to be considered as mere instruments serving goods that count as desirable in specific collectives. The thesis of the paper is that liberty is always "social liberty": the institutions enabling it are not to be added to a prepolitical liberty dimension, on the contrary they are what enables its realization. Such thesis is advanced to endorse the so-called "domestic analogy" in order to overcome anti-statist cosmopolitism objections to the idea that recognizing the equal supremacy of states is part and parcel of everyone rights to freedom respect. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Talking about interculturality means changing notions that seem essential. Therefore, the new focus of political-social discussions aims to change course and introduce a new pattern for interculturality. The proposal does not adhere to the binomial "war and peace", because the notion of an êthos (ous) as a dwelling place of coexistence requires a change in the warmongering perspective. In other words, the search for peace does not go beyond an allegory that implies peace as a result of war. The move supposes another perspective. From um êthos (ous) as a place and a room, it is about thinking hospitable conviviality, in order to build shelter for humans and non-humans. Hospitality would be, then, that conviviality that is presented from an Ibero-Afro-indigenous geoculturality and from its cosmopolitan dimension. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Is World War I a Latin American event? To what extent can one consider World War I a Latin American war? In what sense could the worldly predicate of the Great War include Latin America? These are obviously counterintuitive questions about an unprecedented military conflict. The merely symbolic participation of Brazil and of the formal and informal colonies of the United States in the region is not enough to place the eventfulness of the First World War within the cultural and discursive realm of Latin America during those years. However, this article proposes that from the disciplinary perspective of cultural and literary history, it is possible to inscribe Latin America in the war and the war within Latin American culture as integral parts of the uneven symbolic field that supports their respective discursive existences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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An analysis of Max Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism reveals that the word "culture" is explicitly mentioned at least 43 times depending on the edition and translation. Culture is relevant as the foundation of the argumentative structure since it allows for the differentiation of human groups and their peculiar characteristics. From a cosmopolitan point of view, Weber's question is still pertinent given the advances of global thinking, its recent dissemination, and its acceptance within academic circles. With cosmopolitanism as its main guide, this paper analyses the use of the word "culture: in the book in order to inspire a debate on how to define a cosmopolitan ethos. While there is a persistent inquiry onto the applicable ethical-political mechanisms, the cosmopolitan literature converges towards education as an answer to the problem of culture in a globalized world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines Vallejo's realism as destabilizing dominant cultural discourses in Latin America, particularly the cosmopolitan tradition of travelling to Europe in order to "letter oneself ". Vallejo self-mockingly engages in this rite when he travels throughout Europe trying to insert himself in the global literary canon. Through a careful reading of the path the narrator of the five novels that make up El río del tiempo, and as a counterpoint to Kwame Anthony Appiah's idealist cosmopolitanism, Nicholson identifies a layered metaphor of linear paths that parse the tension between the global and the local in the work: the river of time, associated with a naive idealism followed by a material cynicism, European trains in which the narrator has failed cosmopolitan encounters, and the road to his grandparents' farm with which he aassociates youthful bliss. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper presents the "question" of evil in direct relation to modernity. The proposed theses hold that evil cannot be studied by searching for its origins, but by inscribing it within specific historical and cultural coordinates. In this case, the coordinates are located in the modern world and a Modernity that launched the promise of progress and in fact opened the door to anthropological correction, disguising it as a necessary gesture for re-founding humanity itself. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper analyses the patterns and forms of aesthetic legitimation typical to Creacionismo (Creationism), a poetic movement promoted by the Chilean poet Vicente Huidobro. The poet's ingenious personality and his innovating spirit left the mark of genuine cultural synthesis within the dynamics of the Hispanic-American modernism. Huidobro provides Hispanic literature with a unique, noteworthy and authentic configuration within a cultural field that witnessed the dissemination and the clashes of the 20th century's avant-garde and modernist movements. The patterns exhibited by the creationist manifestos confirm an original spirit, brimming with cosmopolitanism and creativity, a holistic intellectual consciousness, inaugural visionaries and a well-articulated critical and theoretical groundwork, further illustrated by the poetic output. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Anti-trafficking rhetoric and policies emphasise the extent of exploitation and coercion of female migrant sex workers and obfuscate the shared ambivalences and contradictions experienced by migrant female sex workers and their male agents and partners. By engaging in the global sex industry, both young men and women negotiate their aspiration to cosmopolitan late modern lifestyles against the prevalence of essentialist patriarchal gender values and sexual mores at home. In the process, established gender normativities, legitimising women's subjection to men, are both reproduced and challenged. The evidence informing this article shows that a minority of women are coerced into the sex industry. There is a direct link between the adherence to essentialist gender/sexual roles and the recourse to violence and exploitation, because migrants' prolonged involvement in the sex industry coincides with the adherence to more cosmopolitan gender/sexual roles, translating into less authoritarian and violent discourses and practices. Hegemonic understandings of migrants' involvement in the global sex industry in terms of ‘trafficking’ erase these important dynamics and dimensions, which underpin intricate feelings and experiences of advantage, disadvantage and exploitation. By failing to engage with the meanings that migrants working in the sex industry ascribe to their working and personal lives, the (anti)trafficking logic of ‘humanitarian intervention’ enforces forms of solidarity and support that appeal to the minority and harm the majority of the people they are supposed to ‘rescue’. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

My article is conceived as a comparative assessment of the implications that the European Union enlargement in 2007 has entailed upon the ethno-national belongingness among Romanian nationality and ethnic minorities in Romania. The cultural identity of ethnic and linguistic communities is currently related to the statute of European Union citizenship, as established by the article 8 of the Maastricht Treaty of European Union (1992). In such socio-economic and legislative framework, the anthropological theorizing of ethnicity and "cosmopolitanism", alongside that of the "human rights" and the "national minorities", actually approximates the ethno-cultural dimension of the European and national citizenship, in the historical continuity and development of the European national states, as well as within their institutional structuring, once they have adhered to a European community. The equivalence and communication between the terminology of European and national legislation (with its specialized juridical principles) endorse the European conceptualization of national citizenship, and, at the same time, the national intelligibility of European citizenship. To exemplify, the official language of Romanian state is also one of the official languages of Europen Union, which is the same as the recognition by the Constitution of Romania of the minorities' right to use their maternal languages in justice. Similarly, the ethnic, cultural, linguistic, and religious identity compose the "configuration" of ethnonationality in the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities, in the Constitution of Romania, and in the draft Statute of National Minorities in Romania as well. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author offers in his article a philosophical and ethical concept of cosmopolitanism realized in the thought of Immanuel Kant. The text contains a theoretical study of cosmopolitanism derived from the postmodern critique of contemporary anthropology. According to the author, cosmopolitanism should be seen as one of the types, dimensions, or forms of globalization. It is a set of values, attitudes and identities, which are universal, apolitical, and transnational. The author traces the common basic source of this values, directing readers attention to culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The present article aims to interlink the following aspects related to cross-cultural European experiences: the educational mobility, as a subtype of modern physical and cultural flexibility, the cosmopolitan identity and values, to whom this type of mobility can give birth to, in similar circumstances all over the continent, and the way these are shared by individuals. The paper draws on the empirical research performed in an intercultural community, amongst Erasmus students incoming to Bordeaux, France, during the former academic year. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Boaventura de Sousa Santos makes a minute analysis of current society in which values such as equality and fraternity are eclipsed by the logic of neoliberal capitalism. Law and modern science have contributed to this phenomenon through the determination of societies ever more unjust and excluding. The remedy for an imminent defeat, considers De Sousa Santos, is social emancipation, that is, an encounter between different civilizations, a process that permits mutual understanding among world citizens; therefore the concept of difference cannot be considered as a factor of separation and isolation, but rather as a factor of interchange and solidarity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The author argues that cosmopolitism has become a sign that we need a new -- cosmopolitan view to understand the cosmopolitan world. He, thus, welcomes cosmopolitanism in the social sciences and demands that they dispense with the old categories build around the nation state. According to the author, it is especially important to think Europe in a cosmopolitan way so that the member states could be freed from the fear that with the enlargement of Europe they are committing a cultural suicide. The further integration should not be oriented towards the inherited vision of a unity of one European 'federal state', but the starting point should be the irreducible many sidedness of Europe. Only in this way, claims the author, is it possible to connect two, at a first glance, contradictory demands -- the recognition of difference and the integration of the different. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Globalization is at the core of academic and public discussions today. As a fact it cannot be dismissed; instead, the task for political philosophy is to broaden its concept and to refine the questions about it, including the problem of its legitimacy and rationalization. In this paper, I explore David Hume's metaphor of commerce -the privileged device towards Civilization- as a powerful way of thinking the correlation between exchange and cosmopolitism. Trade is a communication metaphor whose asymptotes are universality, open-mindedness, reciprocal recognition and hospitality towards the other. I focus on the main concepts of Hume's political philosophy -the artifices of justice and politeness- and reconstruct both the establishment of conventions -vs. contracts- and of their moral approval. That reconstruction illustrates how trade, in its broadest scope, motivates the configuration of a civilized humanity, the aim of legitimate globalization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Until recently, the term cosmopolitism could rarely be found in modern political science literature. It was only in the 1990s that the term was rediscovered by political scientists in the critical discourse on globalization. In this article, I will explore the full potential of cosmopolitism as an analytical concept for empirical political science. I will argue that the concept of cosmopolitism should not be restricted to the analysis of global politics. Indeed, cosmopolitism has much more to offer for political scientists. Properly understood, it enables – and necessitates – a re-invention of political science in the age of globalization, comparable to the behavioural revolution in political science in the 1950s. Such a paradigmatic shift should be based on a twofold transformation of existing disciplinary boundaries: A removal of the boundary between national (and comparative) and international politics on the one hand; and a re-definition of the boundaries between empirical and normative approaches on the other. As a result, cosmopolitism may serve as a new, critical theory of politics based on the integration of hitherto separated fields and sub-fields. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]