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COSMOPOLITANISM WITH A HUMAN RIGHTS FACE
COSMOPOLITANISM WITH A HUMAN RIGHTS FACE

Author(s): Michal Buchowski
Subject(s): Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Islam studies, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Peace and Conflict Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: cosmopolitanism; human rights face;

Summary/Abstract: Ulf Hannerz’s long-standing preoccupation with cosmopolitanism results, inter alia, from his international scholarly experience and Western European/Scandinavian familiarity with multiculturalism. With finesse and competence, he identifies various phases and faces of cosmopolitanism. The three categories presented cover much of the “cosmopolitan field” in the contemporary world. This attempt should be appreciated for being not speculative but realistic. Anthropologists value theories that “stay rather closer to the ground” than “drift off into logical dreams.” “Happy face cosmopolitanism” is realistic, since in the modern world we are observing the flow of ideas, items, technologies and pop-cultural “products” ranging from soccer to karaoke to cuisine. It is a hybridised world in which these modern products are inevitably indigenised.

  • Issue Year: 35/2018
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 140-145
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: English