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Michael Woods - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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precarious rural Cosmopolitanism negotiating globalization migration and diversity in irish small towns
Journal of Rural Studies, 2018Co-Authors: Michael WoodsAbstract:Abstract The intensification of global mobility has introduced international migration to rural areas and small towns with little or no significant recent history of immigration. Drawing on an emergent literature in rural studies, this paper seeks to consolidate the concept of ‘rural Cosmopolitanism’ both as a political or ethical project, and in relation to the ‘actual-existing Cosmopolitanism’ of inter-cultural mobility, conviviality and openness to difference in rural communities. The framework is then tested through case studies of two rural small towns in Ireland – Gort, which was home to over 1000 Brazilian migrants in a population of less than 3000 in the late 2000s; and Ballyhaunis, Ireland's most diverse town with 42 different nationalities in a population of around 2300 – to examine the dynamics and relationships that have brought migrants to these towns and shaped their engagement with long-term residents. The paper contends that the emergent Cosmopolitanism in the towns is defined by precarity, experienced at different scales from the individual to the community, and informed by broader economic and political trends. The paper argues that the rural context of the towns can serve both to facilitate cosmopolitan relations and to extenuate the precarity of this emerging Cosmopolitanism.
Bhikhu Parekh - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Cosmopolitanism and global citizenship
Review of International Studies, 2003Co-Authors: Bhikhu ParekhAbstract:The author argues that we have obligations to our fellow citizens as well as to those outside our community. Since these obligations can conflict and since neither automatically trumps the other, the author provides the general principles needed to resolve the conflict. While rejecting the notion of global citizenship, he argues for a globally oriented national citizenship and spells out its political and institutional implications.
Don Weenink - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Cosmopolitanism as a form of capital parents preparing their children for a globalizing world
Sociology, 2008Co-Authors: Don WeeninkAbstract:This article evaluates cosmopolitan theory by exploring how parents perceive Cosmopolitanism. Interviews with parents whose children attend an internationalized form of education revealed that parents viewed Cosmopolitanism as a form of cultural and social capital, rather than feelings of global connectedness or curiosity in the Other. Dedicated cosmopolitan parents were distinguished from pragmatic cosmopolitans.The former taught their children to explore the world and to take a global perspective on their course of life, while the latter thought that globalizing processes required cosmopolitan competencies. Analyses of survey data showed that parents' inclination to provide children with cosmopolitan capital was related to their own cosmopolitan capital and their level of ambitions, but not to their social class position. The article concludes that Cosmopolitanism should be viewed as an expression of agency, which is acted out when people are forced to deal with processes of globalization.
Robin Cohen - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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conceiving Cosmopolitanism theory context and practice
2002Co-Authors: Steven Vertovec, Robin CohenAbstract:In questioning what we share as human beings and whether we can ever live in peace with one another, the contributors to this study consider the multiple meanings of the term Cosmopolitanism in the past and present. They then develop new ways of conceiving Cosmopolitanism for the 21st century and beyond.
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introduction conceiving Cosmopolitanism
2002Co-Authors: Steven Vertovec, Robin CohenAbstract:In questioning what we share as human beings and whether we can ever live in peace with one another, the contributors to this study consider the multiple meanings of the term Cosmopolitanism in the past and present. They then develop new ways of conceiving Cosmopolitanism for the 21st century and beyond.
David J Button - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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mass extinctions drove increased global faunal Cosmopolitanism on the supercontinent pangaea
Nature Communications, 2017Co-Authors: David J Button, Graeme T Lloyd, Martin D Ezcurra, Richard J ButlerAbstract:Mass extinctions have profoundly impacted the evolution of life through not only reducing taxonomic diversity but also reshaping ecosystems and biogeographic patterns. In particular, they are considered to have driven increased biogeographic Cosmopolitanism, but quantitative tests of this hypothesis are rare and have not explicitly incorporated information on evolutionary relationships. Here we quantify faunal Cosmopolitanism using a phylogenetic network approach for 891 terrestrial vertebrate species spanning the late Permian through Early Jurassic. This key interval witnessed the Permian–Triassic and Triassic–Jurassic mass extinctions, the onset of fragmentation of the supercontinent Pangaea, and the origins of dinosaurs and many modern vertebrate groups. Our results recover significant increases in global faunal Cosmopolitanism following both mass extinctions, driven mainly by new, widespread taxa, leading to homogenous ‘disaster faunas’. Cosmopolitanism subsequently declines in post-recovery communities. These shared patterns in both biotic crises suggest that mass extinctions have predictable influences on animal distribution and may shed light on biodiversity loss in extant ecosystems. Mass extinctions are thought to produce ‘disaster faunas’, communities dominated by a small number of widespread species. Here, Button et al. develop a phylogenetic network approach to test this hypothesis and find that mass extinctions did increase faunal Cosmopolitanism across Pangaea during the late Palaeozoic and early Mesozoic.
