We the Cosmopolitans

Lisette Josephides is Professor of Anthropology at Queen’s University Belfast, having taught in Papua New Guinea, at the LSE, and at the University of Minnesota. Two major books on her PNG fieldwork, The Production of Inequality and Melanesian Odysseys, trace the development of her interests from politics to theories of the self and moral philosophy. She is Associate Editor of Social Analysis, member of the International Advisory Group of Nordic Network for Philosophical Anthropology, and Fellow of the Centre for Cosmopolitan Studies at St. Andrews.

“Taken together, the contributions advance especially discussions about rooted cosmopolitanism respectively vernacular cosmopolitanism…Beyond cosmopolitanism proper the book has a lot to say about shared moralities. Throughout this volume all contributions explicitly or implicitly address the question of universal attributes of human cultures, a traditional but usually neglected topic in current cultural anthropology. The book is well-crafted and well-edited and comes with a systematic and wonderfully detailed index.” · Anthropos“[This volume] enriches interdisciplinary debates about hitherto neglected aspects of contemporary cosmopolitanism as a political and moral project, examining the form of its lived effects and offering new ideas and case studies to work with…[It is] a collection of seminal essays that are as informed and thoughtful as they are iconoclastic examples of meticulous and seminal scholarship replete with illustrative case examples. Of special note are Lisette Josephides' Introduction' and Alexandra Hall's 'Conclusion'. [This volume] is a strongly recommended contribution to academic library Philosophy and Cultural Studies reference collections and supplemental reading lists.” · Midwest Book Review“This is an important intervention in several ways. It adds to the growing momentum behind cosmopolitanism as an anthropological and interdisciplinary theme and it gives us new ideas and case studies to work with. More importantly, though, from the point of view of debate, this book is forcefully challenging a number of taken for granted notions in anthropology.” · Huon Wardle, University of St. Andrews

• PrefaceIntroduction: We the Cosmopolitans: Framing the DebateLisette JosephidesChapter 1. Citizens of Everything: The Aporetics of CosmopolitanismRonald StadeChapter 2. The Capacities of Anyone: Accommodating the Universal Human Subject as Value and in SpaceNigel RapportChapter 3. Cosmopolitan Morality in the British Immigration and Asylum SystemAlexandra HallChapter 4. Experiences of Pain: A Gateway to Cosmopolitan Subjectivity?Anne Sigfrid GronsethChapter 5. Cosmopolitanism as Welcoming the Other/Imperilling the Self: Ethics and Early Encounters between Lyons Missionaries and West African Rulers Prior to Colonial RuleMarc SchiltzChapter 6. The Cartoon Controversy and the Possibility of CosmopolitanismThomas Hylland EriksenConclusionAlexandra HallNotes on contributors