United in Discontent

Dimitrios Theodossopoulos is a Reader at the University of Kent. 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).

“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

• PrefaceChapter 1. Introduction: United in DiscontentDimitrios TheodossopoulosChapter 2. Shifting Centres, Tense Peripheries: Indigenous CosmopolitanismsAndrew Strathern and Pamela J. StewartChapter 3. Sabili and Indonesian Muslim Resistance to CosmopolitanismC.W. WatsonChapter 4. The Cosmopolitan and the Noumenal: A Case Study of Islamic Jihadist Night Dreams as Reported Sources of Spiritual and Political InspirationIain Edgar and David HenigChapter 5. Intimacies of Anti-Globalisation: Imagining Unhappy Others as Oneself in GreeceElisabeth Kirtsoglou and Dimitrios TheodossopoulosChapter 6. Escaping the ‘Modern’ Excesses of Japanese Life: Critical Voices on Japanese Rural CosmopolitanismÀngels Trias i VallsChapter 7. Two Sides of the Same Coin? World Citizenship and Local Crisis in ArgentinaVictoria GoddardChapter 8. Hegemonic, Subaltern and Anthropological CosmopoliticsJohn GledhillChapter 9. Conclusion: United in DiscontentElisabeth KirtsoglouNotes on ContributorsBibliographyIndex