Aesthetic Cosmopolitanism and Global Culture

Vincenzo Cicchelli is an associate professor at University Paris Descartes. At Brill, he is co-Editor-in-Chief (with Sylvie Octobre) of the ‘Global Youth Studies’ suite. He has published (with Sylvie Octobre) Aesthetico-Cultural Cosmopolitanism and French Youth (2018) and Plural and Shared (2018).Sylvie Octobre is researcher at DEPS/Ministère de la culture (France), co-Editor-in-Chief (with Vincenzo Cicchelli) of the ‘Global Youth Studies’ suite (Brill). Among her last books: Quién teme a las culturas juveniles ? (2019), Aesthetico-Cultural Cosmopolitanism and French Youth (2018, with Vincenzo Cicchelli).Viviane Riegel is a researcher of Global and Consumption Studies at ESPM São Paulo. She has published monographs and articles on cosmopolitanism, consumption and mobilities, regarding Brazilian youth and migrant individuals living in São Paulo and in London.

Aesthetic Cosmopolitanism and Global Culture offers a timely and compelling reminder that cosmopolitanism is not merely a remote geopolitical ideal but rather an embodied and everyday strategy for navigating our cultural differences alongside our common humanity. With impressive historical depth and geographical breadth, this collection illustrates in rich detail how the dynamics of globalization enter our domestic worlds through cultural forms ranging from architecture, artwork, food, and film to parenting styles, pop music, television, and dance. It should be read by anyone seeking a deeper understanding of the crucial role culture plays in a world that is both more connected and more conflicted than ever before. —Jennie Germann Molz, Professor of Sociology, College of the Holy CrossCosmopolitanism is usually valorized as a worthy ideal but also dismissed an being incompatible with reality. This sparkling collection of essays tell a different story. By starting from the ground of everyday cultural encounters, or by tracing the new networks of artistic practices, this book provides a new approach for understanding the existence of aesthetic cosmopolitanism. Along this journey, the authors of this collection provide both an empirical justification and open up new methodological forays into a vital concept for our contemporary world. This book will be an invaluable resource in appreciating the plurality in cultural experience.—Nikos Papastergiadis, Director of the Research Unit of Public Cultures, University of MelbourneThis is a great book which makes a very much welcome contribution to understand the opportunities that our contemporary World offers for a truly global culture. Working out a very accurate and smooth transition from theoretical debates to broad empirical evidence, the gathering of studies worldwide achieves by itself what the title promises, an excellent portrait of cosmopolitan aesthetics of our societies around the Globe. Anyone working and thinking about our World today should read it.—Dr. Modesto Guillermo Gayo, Universidad Diego Portales

• Foreword to Aesthetic CosmopolitanismMike FeatherstoneList of IllustrationsList of Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Introduction: How Aesthetic Cosmopolitan Is Our Global World? Vincenzo Cicchelli, Sylvie Octobre and Viviane RiegelPart 1Doing Aesthetic Cosmopolitan Studies1 The Condition of Cultural CosmopolitanismMotti Regev2 The Seven Pillars of Aesthetico-Cultural CosmopolitanismVincenzo Cicchelli and Sylvie Octobre3 The ‘frame’, the ‘rhythm’, and the ‘imaginary’: Rethinking the Cosmopolitan Aesthetic ExperienceDario VerderamePart 2Reshaping the Imaginaries of the World4 The Politics of Cosmopolitan Architecture: Third World Modernism and the Enigmatic Signifier Leslie Sklair5 Aesthetic Cosmopolitanism in São Paulo: a Peripheral Perspective from a Global City Viviane Riegel6 Australians in Hanoi: When Street Food Tours are Safely Exotic Sukhmani Khorana7 Musical Cosmopolitanism: Analysis and Reflections on Cultural Consumption, Gender and Identities around K-pop in ArgentinaPaula IadevitoPart 3Reframing Boundaries through Aesthetics8 Cosmopolitan Socialization: How I See Me, How They See MeClara Rodriguez9 The Love for Cinema Undergoing Transformations: Internationalization and Cosmopolitanism Patterns of Uruguayan Cinephiles Rosario Radakovich10 The Globalization of Samba Percussion: the Reconfiguration of the Legitimate Ways of PlayingAntoinette Kuijlaars11 Cosmopolitan Pleasures and Affects; or Why Are We Still Talking about Yellowface in Twenty-First-Century Cinema? Felicia ChanPart 4Aesthetic Cosmopolitanism as a Strategy12 Redefining Cosmopolitanism: the Inter-Generational Transmission of Global Cultural Capital in TaiwanYi-Ping Eva Shih13 Louvre Abu Dhabi: a Clash of Cosmopolitanisms? Anne Krebs and Franck Mermier14 São Paulo and the Brazilian Gastronomy: Field of Disputes within Globalization Joana A. Pellerano and Talitha Alessandra Ferreira15 Danish Television Series, a Cosmopolitan Artwork Claire ThoumelinAfterword: A New Road toward Global Culture Shujiro YazawaIndex