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The provocative title of this book is deliberately and challengingly universalist, matching the theoretically experimental essays, where contributors try different ideas to answer distinct concerns regarding cosmopolitanism. Leading anthropologists explore what cosmopolitanism means in the context of everyday life, variously viewing it as an aspect of kindness and empathy, as tolerance, hospitality and openness, and as a defining feature of pan-human individuality. The chapters thus advance an existential critique of abstract globalization discourse. The book enriches interdisciplinary deba

Cosmopolitanism --- Culture and globalization

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At the end of the nineteenth century, Italy welcomed an official embassy sent by the government in Tokyo to make Japan more integrated into the new world scene it was entering. The cultural and political elites of the peninsula had the chance to discover, or rather rediscover, the charm of a world that had been lost over the centuries. This essay aims to reflect on the means and meanings of this late nineteenth-century encounter. Indeed, from this moment onwards, Japan increasingly became part of Italian mental horizons, in particular through the rereading and reuse of two precedents dating back to the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries that saw the two countries dialogue and "discover" each other for the first time.

Culture and globalization.

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Il titolo di questo volume rimanda a una realtà presente, spesso drammaticamente, in tutti i territori in cui le culture slave, in diverse fasi storiche, si sono trovate a vivere a contatto con altre etnie. Al di là dei problemi di convivenza, complicati oggi da fenomeni quali globalizzazione e multiculturalismo che dissimulano i conflitti identitari, la storia degli slavi si è sempre intrecciata a quella di altri popoli. È sembrato opportuno dunque proporre il tema, non inedito, dei 'confini', che offre ampio spazio di riflessione su una molteplicità di aspetti delle culture slave. Ancora oggi dall'Italia si guarda ai paesi dell'Europa centro-orientale con un certo scetticismo. Le lingue e le tradizioni di quest'area restano poco o niente affatto note. I flussi migratori dei popoli di questi ultimi vent'anni hanno contribuito a creare l'immagine di un'Europa di secondaria importanza, arretrata, che vuole imporsi alla prima. Questo volume collettivo vuole invece mostrare come la nostra identità di europei si riesca a mettere a fuoco, e con difficoltà, solo allargando lo sguardo ad est e imparando la lezione dei territori dell'Europa centro-orientale. Anche se gli slavi occidentali e parte degli slavi meridionali hanno partecipato alla storia occidentale sin dal medioevo e ne sono stati poi divisi dagli eventi storici, si potrà forse forgiare una nuova identità europea solo riflettendo sulle vicende dell'intero mondo slavo, e sperimentando le stesse difficoltà di convivenza (quale è ora anche l'esperienza dell'Europa occidentale) fra residenti e immigrati, culture maggioritarie e minoritarie, identità e alterità.

Culture and globalization. --- Slavic languages.

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Food Heritage and Nationalism in Europe contends that food is a fundamental element of heritage, and a particularly important one in times of crisis. Arguing that food, taste, cuisine and gastronomy are crucial markers of identity that are inherently connected to constructions of place, tradition and the past, the book demonstrates how they play a role in intangible, as well as tangible, heritage. Featuring contributions from experts working across Europe and beyond, and adopting a strong historical and transnational perspective, the book examines the various ways in which food can be understood and used as heritage. Including explorations of imperial spaces, migrations and diasporas; the role of commercialisation processes, and institutional practices within political and cultural domains, this volume considers all aspects of this complex issue.　Arguing that the various European cuisines are the result of exchanges, hybridities and complex historical processes, Porciani and the chapter authors offer up a new way of deconstructing banal nationalism and of moving away from the idea of static identities. Suggesting a new and different approach to the idea of so-called national cuisines, Food Heritage and Nationalism in Europe will be a compelling read for academic audiences in museum and heritage studies, cultural and food studies, anthropology and history. Chapters 1,2,4,6 and 12 of this book are available for free in PDF format as Open Access from the individual product page at www.routledge.com. They have been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Popular culture. --- Culture and globalization.

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Under the simultaneous influences of globalization and localization, there has emerged a prevalent social formation based on a hybridized culture in which the cultural norms are many and various: boundary transcendence, alternative cultures, cultural hybridity, cultural creativity, connectivity, tolerance, multiculturalism, cosmopolitanism. While the economic forces shaping globalization are powerful and seemingly getting stronger, they are not immutable, nor are their effects predictable or necessarily overwhelming. Contributors to this book are optimistic that the socio-cultural formations of the future, such as cultural hybridity and cosmopolitanism, will be a viable option for constructing new or renewed global communities of migrants around the world. It is on these diasporic communities that the self-definition (the self-identity) and cultural expansion of all migrants depend, and it is with these tools that migrants are best equipped to navigate the raging torrents of globalization in the new millennium of a post-postmodern era. Globalization brings with it a fear, a sense of loss and demise. It also brings with it a new sense of opportunity and hope. It is in this spirit that this book should be read. Contributors: Chan Kwok-bun, Jan W. Walls, David Hayward, Michael E. DeGolyer, Lam Wai-man, Georgette Wang, Emilie Yeh Yueh-yu, Lu Fang, Nan M. Sussman, Rie Ito, Oscar Bulaong Jr., Brian Chan Hok-shing, Millie Creighton, Anthony Y.H. Fung, Ho Wai-chung, Chiou Syuan-Yuan, Chris Wood, Chung Ling, Steve Fore, Todd Joseph Miles Holden, Ashley Tellis, Jeffrey S. Wilkinson, Steven McClung

Cultural fusion. --- Culture and globalization. --- Identity (Psychology)