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Book SynopsisThis title addresses the question of whether cosmopolitanism - ways of thinking, feeling, and acting beyond one's particular society - is simply the universalism of a Western particular.
Table of ContentsCosmopolitanisms / Sheldon Pollock, Homi K. Bhabha, Carol A. Breckenridge, and Dipesh Chakrabarty 1
Cosmopolitanism and Vernacular in History / Sheldon Pollock 15
Spectral Housing and Urban Cleansing: Notes on Millennial Mumbai / Arjun Appadurai 54
Universalism and Belonging in the Logic of Capital / Dipesh Chakrabarty 82
The Senegalese Murid Trade Diaspora and the Making of a Vernacular Cosmopolitanism / Mamadou Diouf 111
"Crushing the Pistachio": Eroticism in Senegal and the Art of Ousmane Ndiaye Dago / T. K. Biaya 138
The Many Faces of Cosmo-polis: Border Thinking and Critical Cosmopolitanism / Walter D. Mignolo 157
Zhang Dali's
Dialogue: Conversations with a City / Wu Hung 189
Cosmopolitan De-scriptions: Shanghai and Hong Kong / Ackbar Abbas 209
Contributors 229
Index 233
