Table Of ContentAfter Cosmopolitanism
Atatimewhensocialandpoliticalrealityseemstomoveawayfromthepractice
of cosmopolitanism, whilst being in serious need of a new international fra-
mework to regulate global interaction, what are the new definitions and
practices of cosmopolitanism? Including contributions from leading figures
across the humanities and social sciences, After Cosmopolitanism takes up this
question as its central challenge. Its core argument is the idea that our
globalized condition forms the heart of contemporary cosmopolitan claims,
which do not refer to a transcendental ideal, but are rather immanent to the
materialconditionsofglobalinterdependence.Buttowhatextentdoemerging
definitions of cosmopolitanism contribute to new representative democratic
models of governance?
The present volume argues that a radical transformation of cosmopolitanism
is already ongoing and that more effort is needed to take stock of transfor-
mationswhicharebothnecessaryandpossible.Tothisend,AfterCosmopolitanism
calls for an understanding of cosmopolitanism that is more attentive to the
materialrealityofoursocialandpoliticalsituationandlessfocusedonlinguistic
analyses of its metaphorical implications. It is the call for a cosmopolitanism
that is also a cosmopolitics.
Rosi Braidotti is Distinguished University Professor and the founder and
director of the Centre for the Humanities at Utrecht University,
Netherlands.
Patrick Hanafin is Professor of Law at Birkbeck, University of London
where he also directs the Law School’s Centre for Law and the Humanities.
Bolette Blaagaard is Interdisciplinary Research Fellow at the Centre for
Law, Justice and Journalism at City University London.
Acknowledgements
We would like to thank first of all Nori Spauwen and Stephanie Paalvast,
the research assistants whose help with editing the manuscript and com
pleting the bibliographical details was precious. A special word of thanks
also for Esther Rinkens, the executive manager of the Centre for the Huma
nities whose efficient management facilitated every stage of this complex
project.
We would like to express our deep gratitude to The Netherlands Organi
sation for Scientific Research (NWO) and the Leverhulme Trust (International
Network Grant No. F/07 112/S) who supported financially the research
networks and the conference that resulted in the production of this volume.
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Contents
Notes on contributors vii
Introduction 1
ROSIBRAIDOTTI,BOLETTEBLAAGAARDANDPATRICKHANAFIN
1 ‘Becoming-world’ 8
ROSIBRAIDOTTI
2 Cosmopolitanism in a multipolar world 28
DAVIDHELD
3 A cosmopolitics of singularities: rights and the thinking
of other worlds 40
PATRICKHANAFIN
4 The metaphysics of cosmopolitanism 57
COSTASDOUZINAS
5 Cosmopolitanism as irony: a critique of post-humanitarianism 77
LILIECHOULIARAKI
6 The fantasies of cosmopolitanism 97
HENRIETTAMOORE
7 Postcolonialism and cosmopolitanism: towards a worldly
understanding of fascism and Europe’s colonial crimes 111
PAULGILROY
8 Estrangement as pedagogy: the cosmopolitan
vernacular 132
SNEJAGUNEW
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9 Global cosmopolitanism and nomad citizenship 149
EUGENEHOLLAND
10 Destroying cosmopolitanism for the sake of the cosmos 166
CLAIRECOLEBROOK
Index 183
Notes on contributors
Bolette Blaagaard is Interdisciplinary Research Fellow at the Centre for Law,
Justice and Journalism at City University London. She holds a PhD in
genderandethnicitystudiesfromUtrechtUniversity,Netherlands,andaMA
in journalism from University of Southern Denmark. She has published
articles and contributed to edited volumes on issues of Nordic colonialism
and whiteness in the Nordic region as well as worked on the ethics of
journalisticpractices,objectivityandfreedomofspeech.Herresearchinterests
centreonhowjournalisticpracticescanbecombinedwithcosmopolitanism,
postcolonialism, and gender and ethnicity theories in order to challenge
and changejournalismtocopeethicallywithanincreasinglyglobalizedworld.
Rosi Braidotti is Distinguished University Professor and the founder
and director of the Centre for the Humanities at Utrecht University,
Netherlands. She has published extensively on Deleuzian philosophy
and ethics, feminism and nomadism. Her publications include Transpo-
sitions: On Nomadic Ethics (Polity, 2006), Metamorphoses: Towards a
Materialist Theory of Becoming (Polity, 2002) and Nomadic Subjects:
Embodiment and Sexual Difference in Contemporary Feminist Theory
(Columbia University Press, 1994 and 2011a [second edition]) and
Nomadic Theory (Columbia University Press, 2011b). Her work is trans-
lated into a wide range of languages including Italian, French, Dutch and
Finnish. Braidotti holds an honorary degree in philosophy at Helsinki
University and is an Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of the
Humanities.
Lilie Chouliaraki is Professor of Media and Communications at London
School of Economics (LSE). She has published extensively on the question
of cosmopolitanism in relation to the mediation of suffering in the news,
inwarandconflictreportingandingenresofhumanitariancommunication.
Relevant book publications include The Spectatorship of Suffering (Sage,
2006), The Soft Power of War (ed., Benjamins, 2007) and the forthcoming
The Humanitarian Imaginary (Polity, 2010).
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Claire Colebrook is currently Professor of English at Penn State University,
USA. She has published articles on contemporary European philosophy,
feministtheory,literarytheory,contemporarymusic,dance,visualcultureand
political theory. Her books include New Literary Histories (Manchester
University Press, 1997), Ethics and Representation (Edinburgh University
Press, 1999), Gilles Deleuze (Routledge, 2002), Understanding Deleuze
(Allen&Unwin,2003),IronyintheWorkofPhilosophy(Nebraska,2002),
Irony:TheNewCriticalIdiom(Routledge,2003),Gender(Palgrave,2004),
Deleuze: A Guide for the Perplexed (Continuum, 2006) and Milton, Evil
and Literary History (Continuum, 2008). She is currently completing two
book-length studies, one on vitalism and another on William Blake and
aesthetics.
Costas Douzinas is Professor of Law, Director of the Birkbeck Institute for
the Humanities and Pro-Vice Chancellor at Birkbeck College, University of
London. Educated in Athens, London and Strasbourg, he has taught at the
Universities of Middlesex, Lancaster, Prague, Athens, Griffith and Nanjing.
He is afoundingmember ofthe Critical LegalConference;managing editor
of Law and Critique: The International Journal of Critical Legal Thought;
and managing director of the publishing house Birkbeck Law Press.
Paul Gilroy is the holder of the Anthony Giddens Fellowship at the London
School of Economics and Political Science, London. He is well known for
his critical explorations into the legacy of colonialism, the rich promises of
culturally and ethnically diverse societies and the ideal of ‘cosmopolitanism
from below’. He was the first holder of the Treaty of Utrecht Chair, a
position launched in cooperation between the Province of Utrecht, the
City Council of Utrecht and the Centre for the Humanities, Utrecht
University, 2009. Among his publications are Between Camps (Allen
Lane, 2001), Postcolonial Melancholia (Columbia University Press, 2004)
and Darker than Blue (Harvard University Press, 2009).
Sneja Gunew is Professor of English and Women’s Studies at the University
of British Columbia, Canada. She was Director of the Centre for Women’s
and Gender Studies 2002–7 and is currently Associate Principal of the
College for Interdisciplinary Studies. She has taught in England, Australia
and Canada and has published widely on postcolonial, multicultural, and
feminist critical theory and diasporic and ethnic minority writings.
Among her publications are Framing Marginality: Multicultural Literary
Studies (Melbourne University Press, 1994) and Haunted Nations: The
Colonial Dimensions of Multiculturalisms (Routledge, 2004). Her current
work is in comparative multiculturalism and in diasporic literatures and
their intersections with national and global cultural formations.
Patrick Hanafin is Professor of Law at Birkbeck College, University of
London, where he also directs the Law School’s Centre for Law and the
Notes on contributors ix
Humanities. He has been a Visiting Professor at the School of Law at the
University of Porto, Portugal and at the Law Faculty at the University of
Pretoria in South Africa. He has held research fellowships at the European
University Institute in Florence and at the Human Rights Program at
Harvard Law School. His books include Deleuze and Law: Forensic
Futures (with Rosi Braidotti and Claire Colebrook, 2009), Conceiving
Life: Reproductive Politics and the Law in Contemporary Italy (Ashgate,
2007), Law and Literature (with Joseph Brooker and Adam Gearey,
Blackwell, 2004), Constituting Identity: Political Identity Formation and
the Constitution in Post-Independence Ireland (Ashgate, 2001), Identity,
RightsandConstitutionalTransformation(withMelissaWilliams,Ashgate,
1999) and Last Rights: Death, Dying and the Law in Ireland (Cork
University Press, 1997).
David Held is Master of University College, Durham and Professor of Pol-
itics and International Relations at Durham University. His main research
interests include rethinking democracy at transnational and international
levels and the study of globalization and global governance. He has strong
interests both in political theory and in the more empirical dimensions of
political analysis. Among his publications are Models of Democracy (2006)
and Global Covenant (2004), Globalization/Anti-globalization: beyond the
great divide (with Anthony McGrew, 2007); Cultural Politics in a Global
Age (co-edited with Henrietta Moore, One World, 2007).
Eugene Holland is Professor and Chair of Comparative Studies at Ohio
State University, where he specialises in social theory and modern French
literature, history and culture. In addition to a number of articles on
poststructuralist theory and particularly the work of Gilles Deleuze, he
has published a book on Baudelaire and Schizoanalysis: The Sociopoetics
of Modernism (Cambridge University Press, 1993) and an Introduction to
Schizoanalysis (Routledge, 1999), and is currently working on books on
nomad citizenship.
Henrietta Moore is the William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology at
the University of Cambridge and Director of the Culture and Knowledge
Programme at LSE Global Governance. She has a continuing long-term
research engagement with Africa. Her research programme has focused on
gender, livelihood strategies, social transformation and symbolic systems.
She is one of the leading theorists of gender in Social Anthropology, and
her work has developed a distinctive approach to the analysis of the
interrelations of material and symbolic gender systems, embodiment and
performance, and identity and sexuality. She has written and lectured on
Social Theory, Epistemology, Feminist Theory, Anthropology, Gender,
Space, Development and Social Enterprise.
