Cosmopolitanism
1st Edition
Published on 10. May 2002
252 pages
978-0-8223-8338-3 (ISBN)
Description
Fourth volume of the Millennial Quartet.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Durham, NC
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Digital original
Illustrations
24 photos (incl. 4 page color insert), 1 table, 1 map
24 photos (incl. 4 page color insert), 1 table, 1 map
File size
1,49 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-8223-8338-3 (9780822383383)
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Dipesh Chakrabarty | Homi K. Bhabha | Sheldon Pollock
Cosmopolitanism
Book
05/2002
Duke University Press
€135.50
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Dipesh Chakrabarty | Homi K. Bhabha | Sheldon Pollock
Cosmopolitanism
Book
05/2002
Duke University Press
€39.60
Article not available at the moment
Persons
Carol A. Breckenridge teaches at the in the department of South Asian languages and civilizations at the University of Chicago and is the founding editor of Public Culture.Sheldon Pollock is George V. Bobrinskoy Professor of Sanskrit and Indic Studies at the University of Chicago.Homi K. Bhabha is Professor of English and African-American Studies at Harvard University.Dipesh Chakrabarty teaches in the departments of history and South Asian languages and civilizations at the University of Chicago.Sheldon Pollock is the The William B. Ransford Professor of Sanskrit andIndian Studies in the Department of Middle East and Asian Languages andCultures at Columbia University. He is the author ofThe language of the gods in the world of men: Sanskrit,culture, and power in premodern India (2006) and editor of a numberof books, including LITERARY CULTURES IN HISTORY: RECONSTRUCTIONSFROM SOUTH ASIA (2003) and (w/Homi Bhabha, Carol Breckenridge, andDipesh Chakrabarty) COSMOPOLITANISM (Duke, 2002).
Content
Cosmopolitanisms / Sheldon Pollock, Homi K. Bhabha, Carol A. Breckenridge, and Dipesh Chakrabarty 1
Cosmopolitanism and Vernacular in History / Sheldon Pollock 15
Spectral Housing and Urban Cleansing: Notes on Millennial Mumbai / Arjun Appadurai 54
Universalism and Belonging in the Logic of Capital / Dipesh Chakrabarty 82
The Senegalese Murid Trade Diaspora and the Making of a Vernacular Cosmopolitanism / Mamadou Diouf 111
"Crushing the Pistachio": Eroticism in Senegal and the Art of Ousmane Ndiaye Dago / T. K. Biaya 138
The Many Faces of Cosmo-polis: Border Thinking and Critical Cosmopolitanism / Walter D. Mignolo 157
Zhang Dali's Dialogue: Conversations with a City / Wu Hung 189
Cosmopolitan De-scriptions: Shanghai and Hong Kong / Ackbar Abbas 209
Contributors 229
Index 233
Cosmopolitanism and Vernacular in History / Sheldon Pollock 15
Spectral Housing and Urban Cleansing: Notes on Millennial Mumbai / Arjun Appadurai 54
Universalism and Belonging in the Logic of Capital / Dipesh Chakrabarty 82
The Senegalese Murid Trade Diaspora and the Making of a Vernacular Cosmopolitanism / Mamadou Diouf 111
"Crushing the Pistachio": Eroticism in Senegal and the Art of Ousmane Ndiaye Dago / T. K. Biaya 138
The Many Faces of Cosmo-polis: Border Thinking and Critical Cosmopolitanism / Walter D. Mignolo 157
Zhang Dali's Dialogue: Conversations with a City / Wu Hung 189
Cosmopolitan De-scriptions: Shanghai and Hong Kong / Ackbar Abbas 209
Contributors 229
Index 233
