FACELESS COSMOPOLITANISM: A REPLY TO ULF HANNERZ
FACELESS COSMOPOLITANISM: A REPLY TO ULF HANNERZ
Author(s): Piotr JuskowiakSubject(s): Politics, Sociology, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: cosmopolitanism; Ulf Hannerz; anthropology;
Summary/Abstract: Recent ethnocentric statements of prominent politicians (Theresa May, Donald Trump, Beata Szydło, Viktor Orbán, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan etc.) and trans-geographic revival of xenophobic attitudes may indicate that if there is any spectre haunting the contemporary world, it is not the spectre of cosmopolitanism. Neoliberal times of “anxious geopolitics” seem to be better fitted for other “-isms”, to name just racism, nationalism, orientalism or imperialism which gradually form the shameful fundaments for dystopian world of anti-immigrant “bloody legislation” and violent erasure of trouble-causing, i.e.
Journal: Przegląd Kulturoznawczy
- Issue Year: 35/2018
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 134-139
- Page Count: 6
- Language: English
