Books, Bodies and Bronzes

Peggy Levitt is Professor of Sociology at Wellesley College, Massachusetts, USA, and the Co-Director of The Transnational Studies Initiative at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Pál Nyíri is Professor of Global History from an Anthropological Perspective at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

• 1. Books, bodies, and bronzes: comparing sites of global citizenship creation 2. Vogue and the possibility of cosmopolitics: race, health and cosmopolitan engagement in the global beauty industry 3. Shifting tides of world-making in the UNESCO World Heritage Convention: cosmopolitanisms colliding 4. Cosmopolitan theology: Fethullah Gülen and the making of a ‘Golden Generation’ 5. Globalizing forms of elite sociability: varieties of cosmopolitanism in Paris social clubs 6. Pirate cosmopolitics and the transnational consciousness of the entertainment industry 7. Between global citizenship and Qatarization: negotiating Qatar’s new knowledge economy within American branch campuses 8. Tuning in or turning off: performing emotion and building cosmopolitan solidarity in international music competitions