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Book SynopsisA Future without Borders (FWB) offers an explanation of why the recent, but by now distant, movements of the “Occupy Wall Street” activists have repeated themselves across the globe. The book demonstrates some of the processes inherent to an adapting cosmopolitanism (a call for civility, a call for Justice, a call for a collective responsibility or accountability) that is not individualistic in nature. Until recently, the statal/national problems understood as politico-economic failures were conceived as isolated problems, failures of statal institutions that are particular to certain countries. FWB contests the Westphalian logic that explains these circumstances, as national failures and argues instead that the conditions be assessed as extensions of the global economic and ideological failures that they surely are. Contributors are: Anton Allahar, Arnold Farr, Andrew Fiala, Pierre-André Gagnon, Bill Gay, Kurtis Hagen, Linden F. Lewis, Tracey Nicholls, Richard T. Peterson, Jorge Rodriguez, Eddy M. Souffrant, and Hilbourne A. Watson.
Table of ContentsI. Introduction Peace and Cosmopolitanism: On Imagining a Future without Borders Eddy M. Souffrant II. Theorizing the need for cosmopolitanism Cosmopolitanism, Anarchism, and Injustice at the Border Andrew Fiala Sovereignty and Instances of Violence: Colonial and neo-Colonial moments Anton Allahar If Only They Were Money: Plights and Flights of Environmental Refugees Tracey Nicholls III. Theorizing paths to cosmopolitanism Global Capitalism, Sovereign State Violence, and Human Insecurity Hilbourne Watson Violence in Latin America: Cultural Convergences for an Ethical Communitarianism Jorge M. Rodríguez-Martínez Sovereignty and the Realm of the Social Linden Lewis Project for a New Confucian Century Kurtis Hagen IV. Unclenching fists and reaching out to the world Inheriting Wrong Life and One-Dimensional Politics: Obama, Messianism, and the Role of Prophetic Critique Arnold L. Farr The Senate against Obama’s International Climate Ambitions Pierre-André Gagnon The “Browning of Terror” during the Obama Years: Linking of Queer, Black, Brown & Foreign Bodies to Terrorism William C. Gay Nonviolence in an Age of Political Catastrophe Richard Peterson Biographies of Contributors Bibliographies
