3-0330 MOBILITY AND COSMOPOLITANISM: COMPLICATING THE INTERACTION BETWEEN ASPIRATION AND PRACTICE

Thursday, November 17, 2011: 10:15-12:00

Abstract not available in preliminary program.

Organizers: Vered Amit (CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY) and Pauline Gardiner Barber (Dalhousie University)

Chairs: Vered Amit (CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY)

Discussants: Sharon R Roseman (Memorial University of Newfoundland) and Ulf Hannerz (University of Stockholm)

10:15

Reconciling Class and Cosmopolitanism In Philippine Mobilities

Pauline Gardiner Barber (Dalhousie University)

10:30

Writing the Dreams of Return:Autoethnographies for a Cosmopolitan Vietnamese Diaspora

Deborah Reed-Danahay (SUNY, University at Buffalo)

10:45

Consuming Home: Joy, Suffering and Other Predicaments of Mobility

Heather A Horst (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology)

11:00

Microcosmopolitanisms At the Urban Scale

Martha Radice (DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY)

11:15

Romancing the Cosmopolitan City:From Bazaars, Cafes and Ethnic Restaurants to Civil Society and Citizen Rights

Pnina Werbner (Keele University)

11:30

An Outline of Cosmopolitan Ethics: Cosmopolitanism for Anyone and Against Cultures

Nigel Rapport (University of St-Andrews)

11:45

Discussant

Sharon R Roseman (Memorial University of Newfoundland)

12:00

Discussant

Ulf Hannerz (University of Stockholm)

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