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Cosmopolitanism is often cast as an elite cultural orientation and as a privileged disposition to an increasingly globalized marketplace, instigated by, and lived through, mobility. But how does cosmopolitanism evolve among consumers at intersectional subordinate positions of power? This article analyzes the emergence of cosmopolitanism through a 9 year longitudinal extended case study of female migrants with low levels of resources. Through the deployment of a Bourdieusian framework, cosmopolitanism is theorized to evolve through processes set in motion by the experience of mismatch and subsequent alignment between new social contexts and existing socialized dispositions (hysteresis). The experience of hysteresis caused by mobility can lead to a habitus with traits of cosmopolitanism. The emergence of a cosmopolitan habitus can result in a sense of emancipation, but it also engenders new subordinate positions within intersectional systems of power. The outcome of this process is labeled dominated cosmopolitanism, representing a more nuanced version of cosmopolitanism that incorporates various systems of power. The analysis has implications for acculturation studies in consumption contexts characterized by low-resource endowments and provides new insights into the processual nature of the constitution of social systems of power. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Nowa Amerika and Słubfurt are two related activist art projects that are set in the German-Polish borderland. Nowa Amerika is an imagined country, and Słubfurt its capital. This contribution introduces these projects and examines their underlying cosmopolitan principles and their strategies of reality construction and performance. The analysis highlights how Nowa Amerika intervenes in the borderland’s spatial and temporal reality and creates new narratives that challenge established political, cultural, and social boundaries. On the one hand, the projects engage critically with existing borders and produce a cosmopolitan vision for the borderland by playfully subverting the borders of the nation state: They remap the borderland as a shared space, for example, through the creation of new cartographies or by bringing people together to form cross-border networks within the local community. On the other hand, their decided focus on the present and future means that historical context is at times oversimplified or elided, thus blurring the cosmopolitan vision. This article invites thinking about the tensions and difficulties that are embedded in cosmopolitan projects, as well as the challenges and taboos in the relationship between Germany and Poland.

This article argues that Souviens-toi de moi, a novel published in 2014 by French writer Martine Laffon, reclaims the memory of travailleurs chinois on the Western Front during the First World War, at the same time exposing the deliberate agenda of forgetting in both French and Chinese memory cultures. Referring to Mary Louise Pratt’s concept of contact zone and Leela Gandhi’s concept of affective cosmopolitanism, I show how the novel creates an inclusive ethics across race, gender and species, challenging the fixed hierarchies of Western modernity. Synchronously, by applying the multidirectional framework of noeuds de mémoire, the article demonstrates how Laffon constructs war remembrance at the conjunction of anti-militarism, anti-imperialism, feminism and the struggle for animal rights. The novel thus offers a vision of the First World War that radically departs from the French récit national and the Chinese instrumentalization of the laborers’ war memory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

ABSTRACT In four studies, we provide the first empirical examination of how wealth relates to cosmopolitan identity and its consequences for charitable intentions. Study 1 demonstrated that wealth positively predicted cosmopolitan identity in a 60‐nation dataset (n = 90,350). Study 2 replicated this finding with multi‐item measures in the United States, India and Australia (total n = 861); self‐esteem and self‐efficacy accounted for this association. Study 3 demonstrated the mediating role of cosmopolitan identity in explaining the link between wealth and charitable intentions (n = 351). Study 4 provided causal evidence for these relationships by experimentally manipulating wealth perceptions in the United States and India (total n = 537). People who were made to feel wealthy (as opposed to poor) reported greater self‐esteem and self‐efficacy, which flowed through to heightened cosmopolitan identification, and finally to increased charitable intentions. Together, these studies suggest that structural economic realities may impose psychological barriers to cultivating global citizenship, hence implicating prosocial downstream consequences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper seeks to address some confusions and contestations surrounding Paul Gilroy's conceptualisation of conviviality. In particular, it seeks to argue that conviviality cannot be reduced to mere tentative co-existence, nor does it designate the absence of racism. Rather, it aims to demonstrate the messy complexity of everyday life, as people attempt to build lives alongside one another as they find themselves throwntogether on the margins of society. It does this through the qualitative exploration of fighters at a Polish-owned Muay Thai/Kickboxing gym in East London, where fighters enact what I refer to as "carnal conviviality", a form of intimate, bodily togetherness constituted through training to fight that bonds fighters across racial, ethnic, religious and gendered lines. Although inherently local and messy, I argue that the production of social relations that see the human in the other are essential in times of mounting crises. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In Dili, a new generation of Timorese “foodies” are reshaping the culinary landscape by formulating “Timorese Cuisine.” Armed with mobile devices and active on social media, they seek to build Timor's reputation as a tourist destination by managing consumers' appreciation for “local foods” through a novel “gastro‐aesthetics” a culturally inflected field of qualities which contribute to judgements of the “pleasantness,” “beauty,” or “goodness” of food. But bringing Timorese foodways into correspondence with global consumer tastes unsettles their qualitative characteristics and their medical, moral, and cosmological meanings. With cultural politics dominated by resistance heroes and the Indonesian‐educated “new generation,” this movement marks a youthful contribution to Timor‐Leste's viability through entrepreneurialism. As the country's fossil fuel economy is challenged by climate change, and tourism promoted as a sustainable alternative, configuring “Timorese Cuisine” is an element of nation‐branding at once elevates and diminishes the efficacies of “local foods” as social substances. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

AbstractIn this article I explore the notion of jazz cosmopolitanism in Malawi in an effort to examine the complexities of navigating transnational multicultural spaces. I am specifically interested in how this plays out in southern Africa, where the music industries are affected by ongoing influences from the Global North sedimented on top of a history of multiple types of colonialism. I outline some foundational works on music and cosmopolitanism in Africa before discussing the music and career of Malawian jazz guitarist and producer, Erik Paliani. Paliani stands apart from many Malawian musicians based on his career highlights, but also his commitment to jazz as an international and African art form as well as a means of navigating the world. I focus on two compositions as performed by him in order to explore creativity and positionality as they relate to the intersection of jazz and African musics. I also interrogate my own positioning as a foreign white male and frequent participant in the Malawian music industry since 1991. In doing so, I unpack some complexities to cultural representation in cosmopolitan African spaces articulating with discourses on mobility and privilege. My aim is to understand how reconciling individual expression and collective belonging may be accomplished through the praxis of Afro-jazz in southern Africa. I suggest that jazz cosmopolitanism, rooted in socio-musical practices in southern Africa and beyond, adds a crucial layer of expressive devices and referential frameworks that illustrates important stories of human experience in this region. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Between 1848 and 1867, at a time that is often considered to be central to Italian, German, and Slavic nation building, the Habsburg port city of Trieste witnessed a significant immigration from throughout Europe and the eastern Mediterranean. While the historiography of the city has focused on the Triestine entrepreneurial class, understandably described as cosmopolitan, little research has been conducted on the rest of the urban population, too often seen as polarized along distinct national affiliations. This article argues that such national allegiances are anachronistic and that 'vulgar cosmopolitanism', national indifference, dynastic patriotism, and urban and regional allegiances better define the lived experiences of the majority of the population. Archival material, the applications for Austrian naturalization that thousands of foreigners submitted in the period studied here, shows the intense inter-ethnic engagement of those people who did not belong to the cosmopolitan trading community, who often proved to be insensitive to nationalist agitation and unaware of the existence of 'nations'. This study of Habsburg Trieste at the time of nation building in Central and Southern Europe provides further elements that refute standard national narratives and classic interpretations of the development of nationalism. It also offers comparative evidence for global cities that have been integrated into mono-national states or have managed to avoid such integrational efforts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article "Globalizing Irish America: An Introduction" from the Journal of American Ethnic History discusses the shift in historiographical focus towards global history and the importance of exploring the historical origins of globalization. It highlights the significance of global networks and global cities in shaping the experiences of Irish migrants and their interactions with the world. The article emphasizes the need to understand how networks and cities influence the transmission of ideas and information, ultimately shaping human understanding of the world. Through detailed explorations of global networks and cities, the article aims to provide new insights into the transnational dimensions of Irish American experiences. [Extracted from the article]

Muiris MacGiollabhuí explores the ways in which the United Irishmen's use of pamphlets and petitions—classic instruments of eighteenth-century politicking—played an important role in their transition from rebellious subjects in Ireland to Painite cosmopolitans in the United States. This process, one of deradicalization, was informed by an international network of thinkers, from Thomas Paine to James Callender. The United Irishmen drew inspiration from Painite cosmopolitanism and applied it in the United States, and in doing so, helped lay the groundwork for a new political identity that stressed their legitimacy as American subjects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Problem, research strategy, and findings: As urban issues become globally intertwined, planning education must train future practitioners to confront cross-border, intercultural conflicts. In U.S. planning schools, although campus diversity has internationalized, it remains hotly debated how to teach global dimensions of planning. We tackled this understudied subject from the perspective of mainland Chinese practitioners who studied planning in the United States and then returned home to work. We examined how cross-border journeys shaped their career choices and their attitudes toward different planning cultures. Through in-depth interviews, we found that although intercultural struggles triggered nationalist-leaning defensiveness in some returnees, most developed bicultural appreciation, embraced plural worldviews, and pursued transformative agency locally and cross-culturally. Returnees' intercultural competencies and expanded consciousness reflect the value of cosmopolitanism for navigating differences. Amid cultural wars and geopolitical shifts, we call for a cosmopolitan ethos in planning education and practice and invite continual dialogues about future priorities for global planning debates. Takeaway for practice: When working across borders, urban professionals inevitably confront cultural differences, institutional constraints, and value conflicts. U.S.-taught Chinese practitioners helped ideas, practices, and ethics travel and take root across borders through entrepreneurial, internationalist, interventionist, and reformist approaches. This suggests that international, multicultural training can equip practitioners with cosmopolitan competencies and pluralist worldviews, which can enable them to navigate cultural–political differences, identify ethical common grounds across borders, and nudge meaningful shifts through incremental, value-aligned action. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study investigates the career paths of 33 graduates from Swiss Hospitality Management schools in China and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), exploring the nuances of international credential valuation. It identifies two key factors influencing access to management positions: (1) the degree of internationalization in major cities, which impacts the significance of international versus local skills and (2) individual cosmopolitan capital's role in shaping local career opportunities. The paper introduces a post‐colonial conceptualization of cosmopolitan capital, encompassing institutionalized, embodied and objectified forms, challenging Western‐centric views. By doing so, it reveals how mechanisms of racialization influence the assessment of international qualifications. In Hong Kong and Shanghai, returning Chinese are prospering in corporate head offices by mobilizing both local/national and international capital, challenging the white privilege of Western managers in this sector. Meanwhile, in Dubai and Abu Dhabi, the competition is for a pool of 'international talent', even though being perceived as 'Arab' or 'white' seems to improve career prospects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article advances sociological work on globalization processes. It concerns itself with conceptualizations of how the local and global 'clash', utilizing Ulrich Beck's work on globalization, cosmopolitanism and power. By employing Brazil's 2014 Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) men's World Cup as a case, this article seeks to build on Beck's theorizations, into the field of football; using the General Law of the World Cup as a symbolic representation for the global/local, interest‐driven interactions between Brazil and FIFA. In particular, this article is concerned with how FIFA's requirements, standards and norms, as imposed on the host nation, were framed within local media and journalistic discourses. The article extends Beck's insights by problematizing how global demands meet local socio‐spatial, legal and cultural contexts and how these demands, seeking to regulate and secure consumption, are resisted by various domestic and localized actors situated within a power game. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

From US President Donald Trump's Tweet labeling news media "the enemy of the people" to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's establishment of a politically appointed Media Authority, media freedom is under threat in democracies and nondemocracies alike. According to Freedom House, in 2016 media freedom declined globally to its lowest level since 2003, with Europe experiencing the largest regional decrease. We investigate the relationship between government and media in Hungary and Poland and develop a theory that the rise of nationalist sentiment and leaders who leverage this sentiment to encourage censorship from the bottom-up has led to increased media restrictions from the top-down. We posit that bottom-up censorship will erode media credibility and make people more accepting of top-down media restrictions, which could, in turn, lead to nationalism unchecked by the fourth estate. Using a multilevel analysis of World Values Survey, we analyze the relationship between nationalism and media distrust. Using a cross-national time series, we analyze the relationship between nationalist sentiment and media restrictions. We find that increased nationalism is indeed associated with media distrust and media restrictions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines the roles of university elites in enhancing internationalisation agenda in Indonesian higher education. This is done by exploring the relationship between internationalisation and cosmopolitanism. Drawing from two stages of field studies of the internationalisation of Indonesian universities, interviews with key correspondents in the sector, and an analysis of related documents, I argue that there is a tension between the way the university elites see themselves as the agents of cosmopolitan culture and the way they are positioned as intermediaries of global interest and agenda. Cosmopolitan culture that appears to be symbolic, universal, and democratic as represented by the university elites belies the instrumental purpose of internationalisation that yokes higher education into the global marketplace. A shift from mere cosmopolitanism to cosmopolitics would equip the university elites with the analytical tools of global geopolitics regarding the internationalisation of higher education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article discusses the resurgence of nationalism in recent years, with many political leaders promoting an ethnocentric cult of the nation-state and implementing restrictive immigration policies. The article proposes the concept of "encounters" as a lens for understanding the construction and deconstruction of nations through various practices. It explores how encounters challenge traditional notions of identity and offers a more nuanced understanding of nations as dynamic and fragmented entities. The article also highlights the importance of studying encounters within and between nations, as well as their intersection with other forms of belonging. The special issue includes contributions that examine encounters in various contexts, such as refugee hotspots, diasporic communities, media, literature, and historical events. Overall, the article aims to provide interdisciplinary perspectives on nations and nationalism, moving beyond essentialist and typological thinking. [Extracted from the article]

The article focuses on Robert Nozick's Anarchy, State, and Utopia as a significant alternative to prevailing theories of justice, including utilitarianism, Marxism, and progressive redistribution. Topics include Nozick's critique of these theories, his engagement with individualist anarchism, and the less examined aspect of his work regarding the pluralism of human nature and its implications for political philosophy.

The Japanese Kurisu Kei (1910–2009) and the Bulgarian Nikola Aleksiev (1909–2002) never met. They were devoted to communism (for which they were imprisoned several times) and at the same time enthused about Esperanto. In 1933–34, Kurisu received a coded warning from a Soviet citizen (a veteran Communist and Esperantist) against Stalin's terror regime. Kurisu put this experience aside for a long time. In the 1930s, he used Esperanto to spread Georgi Dimitrov's plea for an anti-fascist popular front in Japan. He became a renowned translator from Czech literature and maintained a worldwide correspondence. It was not until 1951 that he left the Japanese Communist Party. His Esperanto involvement contributed significantly to the departure from communist beliefs. In 1992, after the collapse of the Eastern bloc, he got in touch with Aleksiev, who had been a leading figure for the party in Bulgaria and for the Esperanto movement as well. Kurisu accused him of having unswervingly defended the imperialist policy of the Soviet Union. Aleksiev exercised some self-criticism. He admitted that communist rule had not been brought down by the class enemy , but by its own mistakes and crimes , and recalled an old taboo: the murder of Soviet Esperantists under Stalin. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article introduces the work of Adam Kern, an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of San Diego, who focuses on tax law and distributive justice. It discusses the debate among philosophers on whether socio-economic inequalities between individuals who do not share a state can be considered unjust. The article presents two main positions: cosmopolitanism, which argues that these inequalities can be unjust, and statism, which argues that only inequalities within a state should be of concern. The author proposes a new perspective called "universal statism," which accepts inequalities between people who do not share a state but also emphasizes addressing inequalities within any state. The article concludes that if statism is true, it should advocate for equality both at home and abroad. [Extracted from the article]

This text explores the implications of China's rise to global power status on international distributive justice. It argues that the traditional categorization of states into developed and developing countries is no longer sufficient, and proposes a more nuanced approach based on a state's capacity to achieve a minimally decent standard of justice. The text discusses China's responsibilities towards least-developed countries and explores practical and theoretical implications in areas such as trade restrictions and agricultural subsidies. It also discusses the concept of state capacity and its relationship to the realization of Minimum Domestic Social Justice (MDSJ), categorizing states into three groups based on their capacity. The text concludes that capacity improvements are necessary for the realization of MDSJ and proposes a tripartite framework for understanding states in the international order. [Extracted from the article]

This article examines the Critical Connections Multilingual Digital Storytelling Project through the lens of Language Policy and Planning (LPP) and considers the situation of heritage language learning within the policy on language education. We present our project as grassroots policymaking in practice and demonstrate how, through deep and meaningful collaboration, researchers, teachers, parents/carers, and students can exercise bottom-up agency to address key issues in learning languages and developing multilingual literacy. Our interdisciplinary approach embeds interculturality within all stages of the language learning process creating spaces that foster empathy, activist citizenship, and possibilities for a more sustainable future. We interrogate our Critical Connections Project and argue that this approach to LPP provides an alternative model of interculturally oriented critical cosmopolitan education which validates multilingual identities. We show how digital technology, virtual communities, and a growing concern for social justice have shaped the project and discuss how we adopted a critical ethnographic approach. In looking at purposes, principles and means in our project, the digital stories themselves are analysed and presented as vibrant data. To conclude, we engage specifically with the implications of our research for heritage languages and LPP. Finally, we make a series of recommendations for heritage language planning and policy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines the representation of female emigrants in Romanian-language literature published between 2009 and 2017. It explores how global capitalism and patriarchy have impacted the position of women in the labor force, particularly focusing on the experiences of Romanian women who emigrated during this period. The authors analyze various novels written by postcommunist Romanian authors, which depict the struggles and sacrifices faced by these women as they navigate economic migration and separation from their families. While the novels often reinforce traditional gender roles and fail to critique capitalism directly, they also shed light on the complexity and precarity of women's experiences in the transnational labor market. [Extracted from the article]

The article explores the shift from anti-imperialism to human rights internationalism in the 1960s, focusing on the role of Vietnam in popularizing anti-imperialism and the transition to human rights after the Vietnam War. It discusses the overlap between anti-imperialism and human rights, particularly in relation to political imprisonment and detainment. The article also mentions the book "Red Internationalism" by Solar Mohandesi, which provides a comprehensive analysis of anti-imperialism and human rights during this time period, with a focus on the U.S., Vietnam, and France. [Extracted from the article]

This article explores Bret Harte's poem "Plain Language from Truthful James" and its examination of religious and racial dynamics in the post-Civil War West. The poem satirically addresses anti-Chinese racism through the character of Ah Sin, but also highlights the othering of Irish Catholics. The article argues that Harte's portrayal of anti-Chinese racism falls short in speaking truthfully about Chinese laborers, and challenges traditional forms of white supremacy in California. It delves into the history of American religion, anxieties over heathenism, and the economic competition and racial tensions between Irish Catholics and Chinese immigrants in California. The text also discusses the racial and religious dynamics between Irish Americans and Chinese immigrants in the mid-19th century United States, highlighting discrimination faced by the Irish and the participation of Irish Catholics in anti-Chinese sentiments. The author argues that Harte's poem critiques this discrimination and promotes religious and racial tolerance. However, the poem's satirical style and semantic imprecision led to misinterpretations that reinforced anti-Chinese racism and contributed to the support for the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. [Extracted from the article]

This paper aims to argue for the incorporation of human rights within the globalization process. Human rights are defined as societal aspirations for freedom and well-being, inherently possessing a global dimension. The following sections seek to elucidate the globalization of human rights through various lenses. Firstly, this paper traces the historical evolution of rights concepts, spanning from early modernity to contemporary times, emphasizing the emergence of divergent definitions that coexist in tension within the modern world. The latter part of the paper will delve into the "globalization of rights," focusing on the dissemination of universal human rights principles across diverse cultural landscapes. In the final segment, attention will be directed towards the emergence of novel institutional frameworks founded upon human rights principles, tasked with upholding these rights on a global scale. The terms "global civil society" and "transnational cosmopolitanism" frequently used to characterize these emerging structures, will be critically examined to discern the extent to which globalization has facilitated the formation of a global civil society, and to delineate the defining features of this nascent organization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines the life and representation of Joachim Nettelbeck, a Prussian sailor and slave trader, who was celebrated as a national hero in Germany for his defense of Kolberg against Napoleon in 1807. However, his involvement in the slave trade was largely ignored or downplayed in public representations of him. In recent years, there have been efforts to challenge Nettelbeck's commemorative presence and confront Germany's colonial past. The article analyzes the different narratives surrounding Nettelbeck and the strategies used to shield him from criticism. It also calls for further research on German involvement in the slave trade and its connections to nationalism and colonialism. [Extracted from the article]

The current paper argues that speakers of Tongan English, an emergent variety spoken in the Kingdom of Tonga, may use rhoticity to construct a cosmopolitan and globally oriented local social identity. A variationist analysis of non‐prevocalic /r/ in a corpus of 56 speakers reveals a change in progress towards rhoticity led by young females, whereas an affiliation with Liahona High School, a Mormon secondary school, predicts advanced adoption of the feature. I argue that rhoticity carries a positive ideological load for younger speakers as an index of globalness, modernity and Western cultural values, whereas for Liahona‐affiliated speakers, an additional indexicality of rhoticity is Mormonism. Linguistic constraints on variation mirror patterns found in previous studies on L1/L2 varieties and are thus more universal, whereas social constraints on variation are best examined through a local lens. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Perhaps no topic could be more crucial to the concept of "post-communism" than how the Soviet past is commemorated, challenged, or forgotten. The study of historical memory is often correctly tied to identity politics and nation-building. While the usable past framework is broadly applicable to all modern states, in the Russian case a degree of alarmism and negativity surrounds interpretations of how the country has managed its communist past, particularly its violent parts. A significant element to this is a teleological view of progress and the salience of the transition paradigm. In memory studies, this is manifested in the dominance of the cosmopolitan memory mode as the correct way the violent past should be commemorated. The introduction reviews the existing literature on Russia's memory politics and highlights three limitations: (1) overemphasis on the political center and the failure to capture the diversity of regions, (2) too much focus on the supply side of memory politics, and (3) one-sided presentations of the role the Great Patriotic War plays in Russian memory politics. The introduction reviews how the special issue contributions address these limitations in the literature and shows how, taken together, they offer ideas for new research on memory studies. A case is made for how this new research agenda can better understand memory processes and how they relate to broader ideological, cultural, social, and political change in Russia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article compares visitor experiences at the Gulag History Museum in Moscow and the NKVD Prison Museum in Tomsk, Siberia. The museums differ in the production of authenticity in the museum experience. The Moscow museum has no direct relationship to a site of memory and therefore utilizes constructed forms of authenticity. In contrast, the Tomsk museum makes use of objective authenticity given its location in an original prison building. The museums share a stated mission to produce a cosmopolitan mode of remembering based on universal values and empathy for victims with a preventive mission for the sake of the future. The article examines original data from visitor focus groups to understand the emotional impact of these museums. The Moscow museum manufactures the atmosphere of the Gulag through interactive sensory stimulation. We found that this can meet resistance from visitors who sense that their emotions are being manipulated. We found that the Tomsk museum directly elicits strong emotional responses but responses could also include dark tourist titillation. In conclusion, we consider how these findings speak to debates around the tension between cosmopolitan, antagonistic, and agonistic modes of remembering. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article provides a summary of Richard Rorty's book, "Achieving Our Country: Leftist Thought in Twentieth-Century America." Rorty examines the perspectives of American intellectuals on poverty, income disparities, and foreign affairs. He criticizes intellectuals on both the left and right for prioritizing cultural issues over economic ones and questions the future of American egalitarianism in the face of globalization. Rorty also discusses the decline of Western power and emphasizes the need for practical solutions to global challenges. His ideas continue to be relevant today, and he is remembered as a respected scholar. [Extracted from the article]

In Palermo, Sicily, actors use the metaphor of hospitality to profess cosmopolitan attitudes towards 'migrants'. This raises a conceptual puzzle: hospitality and cosmopolitanism represent contradictory models of social ethics. But an ethnography of one social enterprise reveals that the hospitality in use is not traditional hospitality. Rather, employing what I call 'postmodern hospitality' shows a contemporary, reimagined form of hospitality that is compatible with the 'Mediterranean cosmopolitanism' invoked. Actors can thus declare sociopolitical aims of including 'migrants' while saving their 'dying' city. But this politics blurs with economic aims of attracting tourists. Following 'postmodern hospitality' shows how local actors use idealized images of Sicily to appeal to outsiders while attempting to subvert engrained ideas of Sicily as 'backwards'. The risk is that they participate in the European spectacle of migration, and the commodification of notions of 'Mediterraneanness' and 'Southernness'. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the book "Cosmopolitanism and the Enlightenment," edited by Joan-Pau Rubiés and Neil Safier. The book aims to explore the relationship between the Enlightenment and cosmopolitanism, focusing on the philosophical bases of Enlightenment cosmopolitanism and the contributions of diverse perspectives. The essays in the book examine the role of travel literature, the involvement of non-Europeans, and the participation of women in shaping cosmopolitanism during the Enlightenment. The book also addresses the debates surrounding cosmopolitanism and empire, as well as the potential for cosmopolitanism to lead to conflict or peace. The article highlights the significance of the book for world historians and Enlightenment scholarship. [Extracted from the article]

The article examines the limited engagement of human rights scholars with the policies implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic. It critiques the book "States of Exception: Human Rights, Biopolitics, Utopia" by Costas Douzinas for its disorganized nature and failure to address key dilemmas. The book argues for a radical re-arrangement of society and questions the sufficiency of human rights for achieving justice. However, it is criticized for not addressing the trade-offs between freedom and security, lacking a coherent theory on the relationship between human rights and the state, and having contradictory views on immigration, asylum, and the right to protest. The article suggests that these conceptual weaknesses undermine the practical effectiveness of human rights. [Extracted from the article]

A methodology from the international trade literature is adapted to study country-of-origin (COO) effects. The resulting measures offer improvements over those used in the marketing literature by using actual household consumption data that is widely available. The measures capture consumer cosmopolitanism vs. ethnocentrism in each country, and nostalgia vs. animosity between country pairs. Research questions addressed include how cultural, linguistic, geographic, and historical factors impact COO effects. The results confirm several earlier findings from the literature and advance it as follows: Consumers exhibit more animosity toward countries that are culturally distant; do not speak the same languages; historically less connected; geographically close; and less developed, but also toward regional powers, and toward the US. Additionally, ethnocentric countries tend to be large; individualistic, feminine, risk averse, short-term oriented with high power distance and less prone to indulgence; with a high percentage of English speakers; and central in alliances. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Monica Antonello's book, "Communication Strategies in English as a Lingua Franca Transcultural Communication," explores the challenges faced by language teachers in a globalized and cosmopolitan society. The book discusses the need for students to go beyond traditional English language skills and develop intercultural communication competency. Antonello argues for a reevaluation of the Native Speaker standard and proposes a new framework for teaching English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) or English as a Second Language (ESL). The book emphasizes the importance of transcultural competence and the use of communication strategies in achieving mutual understanding in diverse linguistic and cultural contexts. [Extracted from the article]

"Ezra Pound & the Spanish World" is a significant contribution to the Ezra Pound Center for Literature Series by Clemson University Press. The book explores Pound's relationship with the Spanish world, which has been relatively understudied. It contains academic essays and unpublished materials, including letters, postcards, and translations. The book takes a multicultural approach, with contributors from various countries, and covers transnational and transhistorical topics. It is a valuable resource for researchers and scholars interested in Pound's literary and cultural legacy and his connection to Spanish literature. [Extracted from the article]

The book "Inventing the Third World: In Search of Freedom for the Postwar Global South" challenges the Eurocentric and racist connotations of the term "Third World" and explores its emancipatory potential. The authors argue that the term can be used to empower marginalized populations. The book also examines the contested meanings and diverse perspectives within the Third World, highlighting tensions over democracy, relations with the United States, and regional unity. The authors employ a wide range of sources and innovative methodologies to provide a comprehensive and nuanced understanding of the Third World. The conclusion emphasizes the importance of revising and emancipating histories to address global fairness in the present. [Extracted from the article]

As a burgeoning area of interdisciplinary enquiry, linguistic landscape (LL) research can shed light on the sociopolitical, cultural and demographical realities of a particular locale. However, LL research has seldom explored major international cities from a translation and contrastive perspective. Drawing on a corpus containing 450 photographs (e.g. shop fronts and public signs), this study investigates the multilingual landscape involving the Arabic-English pair in Dubai, an international hub representing a vivid case of micro-cosmopolitanism and superdiversity in the 21st century. An examination of the bilingual and translation practices enacted on Dubai's LL points to a ubiquitous phenomenon that the Arabic information is often not authentic Arabic but transliterations from English (pseudo Arabic in disguise). Such use of transliteration privileges the phonetic transference of sounds, at the expense of meaning and function. The prevalent use of transliteration as a 'go-to' strategy is interesting, considering the obvious existence of pure Arabic equivalents. To provide some ethnographic context for the analysis, 10 people in Dubai were interviewed (Arabic speakers from different Arab countries) to establish whether the transliterated Arabic can be understood and the possible rationale behind this interesting linguistic decision. Such symbolic and decorative use of Arabic reflects Dubai's global city status with immigrants significantly outnumbering the indigenous Arabic-speaking natives. The widespread aesthetic use of 'Arabised English' points to the influence of English in a globalised world. Some tentative reasons are provided to explain the phenomenon. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article, I outline the need to theorise a Dialogic Ethical Criticism that maps the spectrum of real student readers' interpretive responses to what Suzanne Choo calls the »referent other« (2021, 88). I start with a brief historical overview of the ethical praxis of literature instruction, from didactic to dialogic practices, and three key complementary (and sometimes overlapping) movements of ethically-oriented literature pedagogies, which I define as lessons or teaching units of literary texts where the text selection, instructional strategies, and interpretive focus – verbal and/or written – centres around the literary representation of the »referent other«, i. e. the »fictional other in the text who, as an imagined construct, makes reference and points to real others in the world undergoing similar forms of injustice« (ibid.). Based on these considerations, I highlight two practical challenges of enacting ethically-oriented literature pedagogies: The first relates to managing student resistance, as well as divergent and limiting responses. The second concerns balancing the tension of enacting a pedagogy of discomfort and the promise of a safe classroom space, and the risk of committing ethical violence on students. I then explain the lack of colligation between the field of ethical criticism in literary studies and empirical studies of ethically-oriented literature pedagogies concerning the ethical meaning-making of real readers. Next, I offer an overview of the field of ethical criticism, drawing upon Suzanne Choo's (2023) survey of the three key strands of ethical criticism: relational, analytical, and historical, showing how they are informed by an underlying cosmopolitan other-centric ethics. How can literature educators attend closely to the turn-by-turn realities of intersubjective interpretation of the referent other in the ethically-oriented literature classroom? Within the field of ethical criticism, I consider three existing dialogic practices that offer possible solutions: namely Wayne Booth's ›coduction‹, Peter Rabinowitz's ›lateral ethics‹ and Suzanne Choo's ›dispositional routines‹. Although these three disparate and complementary practical concepts of ethical criticism do address the above limitations of ethically-oriented literature pedagogies, I argue that a clear gap remains, which shows that educators still need a practical theory of ethical criticism that can help them anticipate, strategise, and address the simultaneous and complex nuances of student responses when dialogically conversing about the referent other. Following these overviews, I theorise what I have called a ›Dialogic Ethical Criticism‹ to look at how real interlocutors come together in interpretive communities of the classroom. I establish its fundamental tenets of Emmanuel Levinas' ethical responsibility to the other, its awareness of the constant tension of representational violence in language, and its commitment to support ethical interruptions of one's prejudices. To account for the ways real readers respond to the referent other and discursive conditions within a classroom's lateral ethics, I combine Hans-Georg Gadamer's philosophical hermeneutics and empirical studies of student responses to the referent other in classroom discourse to formulate the framework for a Dialogic Ethical Criticism. I show how despite Levinas and Gadamer's fundamental differences in the ontology and epistemology of alterity, Gadamer's concepts of prejudice, hermeneutic conversation, and the fusion of horizons reflect the ethical interruptions of one's prejudices that students experience in classrooms. Here, I introduce a diagrammatic framework of Dialogic Ethical Criticism that helps explain the dialogic process of ethical utterances and episodes about the referent other in classroom interactions. Using Gadamer's dialectic of the I-Thou, I discern three orientations of student responses to the referent other: resistant and self-centred stances; receptive yet self-centred stances; and receptive and other-centred stances. I also present a preliminary taxonomy of how these stances can be expressed by drawing upon twelve empirical studies of secondary-level student responses to the referent other. I illustrate this taxonomy by applying it to a reading of a translated poem on migrant worker conditions during COVID-19 lockdowns in Singapore called »First Draft« by Bangladeshi poet Zakir Hossain Khokan. I then briefly explain my existing theorisation of Dialogic Ethical Criticism that adopts Gadamer's concept of hermeneutic conversation to chart a preliminary taxonomy of discursive acts that either facilitate or inhibit the fusion of horizons between reader, text, and the referent other. Finally, I contend that Dialogic Ethical Criticism can serve as a practical theory for literature educators to better discern the ethical stances of interpretive claims and to prepare for the practical challenges of navigating conflicting, controversial, and confounding interpretive claims by students. I comment on its implications for the moral development of adolescent students. I further propose that in the context of teacher education and professional development, educators can examine these ethical utterances and episodes about the referent other to sensitise themselves to the nuanced tensions of classroom discourse. While the generative framework of Dialogic Ethical Criticism may elide paralinguistic resources of meaning-making, or not fully accommodate classroom particularities across different contexts, ultimately it aims to serve the cause of what Choo (2024a) calls »hermeneutical justice«, one where applications of critical interpretive approaches are grounded in an ethics of truth-seeking, wisdom, and justice for the other (cf. 3 sq.). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines the American expatriate community in Florence, Italy, between 1840 and 1865. Florence, with its history of liberalism, attracted reformers from all over the Atlantic world, including many Americans and Britons committed to antislavery. During the two decades before the Civil War, Florence attracted American and British cultural elites who valued its history, culture, cosmopolitanism, and suitability for untrammeled discussion and debate about a variety of liberal causes, including antislavery. For American reformers and intellectuals like Ralph Waldo Emerson, Charles Sumner, Theodore Parker, and Sarah Parker Redmond, the city represented both a physical location and an imagined community dedicated to antislavery and liberal reform. American abolitionists' interaction in Florence with English abolitionists such as Robert and Elizabeth Browning and Fanny Trollope suggests that the city looms larger in the geography of nineteenth-century abolitionism than previously appreciated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article analyzes the style of modernist Korean poetry by focusing on the seaport. Topics mentioned include the comparison of the poems by Kim Ch'ang-sul and Chong Chi-yong. Ch'ang-sul's affinity between the waves and human labor power, the examination of the liminality of the port, and the role of the port in the formation of a geospatial imaginary.

The article examines how the contemporary artists describe the Matsu Islands through their artworks. Topics mentioned include the focus of contemporary artists on the shore and the intertidal zone, the boundaries between activism and tourism and biophysical and metaphysical, and the fluid link between the Pacific Ocean and the island nation of Taiwan.

An introduction to articles published within the issue is presented including one about oceanic connectivities, island iconographies, and the geospatial dimensions of the Pacific Ocean.

This article provides a comprehensive analysis of Jean Lassègue's book on the philosophy of Ernst Cassirer, with a particular focus on Cassirer's shift towards a semiotic perspective. Lassègue's unique conceptual framework offers a fresh interpretation of Cassirer's works, especially regarding the issue of semiotic mediation. The article also delves into Cassirer's early epistemological doctrine and his views on the development of modern science, emphasizing the significance of signs and symbols in knowledge. Lassègue's book further explores semiotics, examining the various modes of objectification and the distinction between signification and sense. It argues that philosophy is the awareness of symbolic forms and their processes of meaning production, distinguishing it from positive knowledge, which pertains to science. The text also explores the operators of semiosis, such as expression, evocation, and objectification, and their role in symbolic forms. Overall, this text offers a detailed analysis of Cassirer's philosophy of symbolic forms and its implications. [Extracted from the article]

This research aims to investigate the correlation between the academic performance of migrant students and their cultural integration within the context of international education. Additionally, it seeks to identify an optimal acculturation strategy that enhances the academic outcomes of migrant students and explores the influence of VR technology-based learning on acculturation and academic performance. The study conducted an online survey among 1032 participants from China, Vietnam, Mongolia, Turkmenistan (studying at RUDN University in Moscow, Russian Federation), and Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan (studying at Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University in Yelabuga, Russian Federation), forming the primary sample (N = 400). The research utilized Berry's 2D acculturation model (2005) and Schwartz's questionnaire (1992) to assess acculturation strategies. A virtual reality experiment involved 100 students using Oculus Rift and Rhino-Unity technology. Academic performance, acculturation, and stress levels were measured post-virtual excursions. The SL-ASIA (26-item) and ILS (31-item) surveys assessed acculturation levels and stress. The research identified integration as the most effective acculturation strategy (35%), fostering improved academic performance, expanded cultural boundaries, and the development of global cultural capital. Analyzing the relationship between academic performance and acculturation tendencies revealed that the majority of students with "Excellent" (49%) and "Good" (59%) grades exhibited a high level of integration. Those with "Satisfactory" grades showed a tendency towards marginalization (32%). In the realm of cultural education through virtual reality technology, the study demonstrated that immersive VR learning environments can enhance academic performance, reduce psychological and acculturation stress, and multiply adaptive resources essential for acculturation in a new culture. Although the abstract highlights the research objectives, it requires modification for grammatical correctness. Additionally, the methodology for data collection and analysis needs to be explicitly mentioned for clarity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]