United in Discontent

Dimitrios Theodossopoulos is Senior Lecturer at the University of Bristol. His earlier work examined people-wildlife conflicts and indigenous perceptions of the environment. He is currently concerned with nationalism, ethnic stereotypes, and the politics of culture commodification in Central America and Southeast Europe. He is author of Troubles with Turtles: Cultural Understandings of the Environment on a Greek Island (Berghahn, 2003), and When Greeks Think about Turks: The View from Anthropology (Routledge, 2006). Elisabeth Kirtsoglou is Lecturer in anthropology at the University of Durham and author of For the love of women: gender, identity, and same-sex relationships in a Greek provincial town (Routledge, 2004). She has published on identity, gender, and politics.

"This is an important volume, and the contributors' command of their material and commitment to their areas of research are very clear." * JRAI "Few books have challenged a number of intertwined, crucial issues of the present-day debate on globalization like [this volume] does. Moreover, it does so thoughtfully and courageously, combining an in-depth presentation of the theoretical background with sound ethnographic work that covers quite many different areas of the world - All researchers interested in multi-facetted and multi-disciplinary readings of cosmopolitanism and globlisation will find this book rich with stimulating questions and fascinating research perspectives." * Anthroplogical Notebooks "This is one of the best collections on the theme of globalisation I have come across in a very long time. It does an excellent job of drawing out a number of important theoretical issues through a wide ranging examination of particular ethnographic cases." * Stephen Lyon, Durham University

• Preface Chapter 1. Introduction: United in Discontent Dimitrios Theodossopoulos Chapter 2. Shifting Centres, Tense Peripheries: Indigenous Cosmopolitanisms Andrew Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart Chapter 3. Sabili and Indonesian Muslim Resistance to Cosmopolitanism C.W. Watson Chapter 4. The Cosmopolitan and the Noumenal: A Case Study of Islamic Jihadist Night Dreams as Reported Sources of Spiritual and Political Inspiration Iain Edgar and David Henig Chapter 5. Intimacies of Anti-Globalisation: Imagining Unhappy Others as Oneself in Greece Elisabeth Kirtsoglou and Dimitrios Theodossopoulos Chapter 6. Escaping the 'Modern' Excesses of Japanese Life: Critical Voices on Japanese Rural Cosmopolitanism Angels Trias i Valls Chapter 7. Two Sides of the Same Coin? World Citizenship and Local Crisis in Argentina Victoria Goddard Chapter 8. Hegemonic, Subaltern and Anthropological Cosmopolitics John Gledhill Chapter 9. Conclusion: United in Discontent Elisabeth Kirtsoglou Notes on Contributors Bibliography Index