Cosmopolitan dice recast |
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Authors: | Marianna Papastephanou |
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Institution: | Department of Education, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus |
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Abstract: | This article argues that hegemonic cosmopolitan narrativity fails to frame a complex cosmopolitan normativity. The hegemonic cosmopolitan narrative celebrates a mobile selfhood merely hospitable to the encountered, mobile diversity that comes ashore. A recent educational-theoretical ‘refugee-crisis’ initiative serves as an illustration of the normative shortcomings of the new cosmopolitanism. The implicit normativity of the dominant cosmopolitan narrativity is, I claim, politically too weak to cover the normative surplus of a more critical cosmo-politics. Cosmopolitanism should be recast to make higher ethico-political demands on the global self and world for the cultivation of neglected ecological and relational sensibilities. |
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Keywords: | Rights refugee crisis hospitality deliberation migration responsibility |
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