Whose Cosmopolitanism?

<p> The term <em>cosmopolitan</em> is increasingly used within different social cultural and political settings including academia popular media and national politics. However those who invoke the cosmopolitan project rarely ask whose experience understanding or vision of cosmopolitanism is being described and for whose purposes? In response this volume assembles contributors from different disciplines and theoretical backgrounds to examine cosmopolitanism's possibilities aspirations and applications-as well as its tensions contradictions and discontents-so as to offer a critical commentary on the vital but often neglected question: <em>whose cosmopolitanism?</em> The book investigates when where and how cosmopolitanism emerges as a contemporary social process global aspiration or emancipatory political project and asks whether it can serve as a political or methodological framework for action in a world of conflict and difference.</p>