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Author: Ulrike M. Vieten
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Routledge
Edition: New edition
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 1.30cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.544kg
ISBN: 9781409433835
ISBN 10: 1409433838
Pages: 196
Publication Date: 28 April 2012
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
'In this rich, insightful and thought provoking monograph, Ulrike Vieten discusses and analyzes contemporary political reality as well as political thought around notions of diversity and alterity of belonging from a feminist and intersectional lens. Focusing on contemporary political reality as well as political thought on cosmopolitanism, the author highlights the situated, embedded and exclusionary boundaries that different discourses on cosmopolitanism assume and calls for an alternative transversal feminist discourse of subaltern cosmopolitanism.' Nira Yuval-Davis, University of East London, UK 'This books offers a fresh feminist critique of the burgeoning, and largely male-oriented, literature on cosmopolitanism in 21st century Europe. Its comparison of two very different national discourses, that of Britain and Germany, through the writings of mainstream and minority intellectuals, enables the author to explore alternative gendered ways of belonging in a transnational public sphere.' Eleonore Kofman, Middlesex University, UK 'As Prof. Vietens writes, the idea of global humanity is much too exciting to leave it to the 'boys' She offers readers a sweeping corrective, using a feminist lens to bring to light what so many theorists have left out and to provide readers with a way forward to a more just and equitable society.' Peggy Levitt, Wellesley College, USA, author of God Needs No Passport 'Ulrike M Vieten explores the highly contested concept of cosmopolitanism in this recent book. Through an in-depth engagement with the work of key cosmopolitanism thinkers including JA1/4rgen Habermas and Homi Bhabha, and considering feminist criticisms from Chantal Mouffe, Vieten provides an engaging but challenging read.' LSE Review of Books '[Ulrike Vieten] weaves together an eclectic mixture of theories, theorists and historical background in the development of her argument and the monograph offers a timely interjection, from a feminist perspective, into debate
'In this rich, insightful and thought provoking monograph, Ulrike Vieten discusses and analyzes contemporary political reality as well as political thought around notions of diversity and alterity of belonging from a feminist and intersectional lens. Focusing on contemporary political reality as well as political thought on cosmopolitanism, the author highlights the situated, embedded and exclusionary boundaries that different discourses on cosmopolitanism assume and calls for an alternative transversal feminist discourse of subaltern cosmopolitanism.' Nira Yuval-Davis, University of East London, UK 'This books offers a fresh feminist critique of the burgeoning, and largely male-oriented, literature on cosmopolitanism in 21st century Europe. Its comparison of two very different national discourses, that of Britain and Germany, through the writings of mainstream and minority intellectuals, enables the author to explore alternative gendered ways of belonging in a transnational public sphere.' Eleonore Kofman, Middlesex University, UK 'As Prof. Vietens writes, the idea of global humanity is much too exciting to leave it to the 'boys' She offers readers a sweeping corrective, using a feminist lens to bring to light what so many theorists have left out and to provide readers with a way forward to a more just and equitable society.' Peggy Levitt, Wellesley College, USA, author of God Needs No Passport 'Ulrike M Vieten explores the highly contested concept of cosmopolitanism in this recent book. Through an in-depth engagement with the work of key cosmopolitanism thinkers including Jurgen Habermas and Homi Bhabha, and considering feminist criticisms from Chantal Mouffe, Vieten provides an engaging but challenging read.' LSE Review of Books '[Ulrike Vieten] weaves together an eclectic mixture of theories, theorists and historical background in the development of her argument and the monograph offers a timely interjection, from a feminist perspective, into debates about globalization, Europeanization, and the concept of nation... The book can be read from cover to cover or readers may wish to dip into chapters, or indeed sub-sections, based on their own interests or because the book offers a useful synthesis of several theorists' key arguments on the subject of cosmopolitanism.' Journal of Contemporary European Studies 'Through her analysis of the mainstream discussion on cosmopolitanism in Europe, such as those which revolve around the process of Europeanisation, Vieten demonstrates how these debates have been built on supra-territorial borders of 'othering' and racialising' and have failed to override Eurocentric state nationalism. She criticises how the mainstream discussions of cosmopolitanism overlook the way that hegemonic knowledge, power and social structure is gendered and do not challenge such inequalities ... Vieten reminds us that this is only the beginning of her-story and we still need to continue our struggle not only to make such a perspective of cosmopolitanism more visible, but to actually strive to achieve global justice itself.' Gender and Education
Author Information
Ulrike M. Vieten is Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Conflict Transformation and Social Justice at Queen's University Belfast, UK.
