Cosmopolitan Moment, Cosmopolitan Method

Nigel Rapport is Emeritus Professor of Anthropological and Philosophical Studies at the University of St Andrews, UK, and Founding Director of the St Andrews Centre for Cosmopolitan Studies.Huon Wardle is Senior Lecturer, former Director of the Centre for Cosmopolitan Studies, and Editor of the Yearbook in Cosmopolitan Studies at the University of St Andrews, UK.

• 1. What does a cosmopolitan anthropology hope to know, and how? An introductionHuon Wardle and Nigel RapportPart I2. Trembling Moments: Encountering the other (self) at the pier of LampedusaAlessandro Corso3. Being Methodologically Cosmopolitan: On uncertainty, capacities and the stories that are still to be toldSimone TojiPart II4. Cosmopolitanism as an empirically grounded framework in urban ethnographySilvia Binenti5. Caliban’s Return: Afro-Cuban Cosmopolitics Between Politesse and MulticulturalismPablo D. Herrera VeitiaPart III6. Anthropology upscaled: Cosmopolitan encounters with EU civil servants in BrusselsSeamus Montgomery7. Rastafari Cosmopolitics: Reflections on an Ethnography of spiritual repatriation and the state of Caribbeanist anthropologyShelene GomesPart IV8. Interlocutors and anthropologist in and out of cosmopolitanismNarmala Halstead9. Social deeds, building, and the cosmopolitan moment: An ethnographic view on affective labour in late-socialist PolandTomasz RakowskiPart V10. We-ness: The universal nature of human sociation and its ethical recognitionNigel Rapport11. On the Structure of Cosmopolitan EncountersHuon Wardle12. AfterwordNigel Rapport and Huon Wardle