Cosmopolitanism in Practice

The volume provides empirical research to show how people actually embrace cosmopolitan ideas and attitudes. It studies ’cosmopolitanism in practice’, looking at the social and institutional environments in which cosmopolitanism shapes everyday life experiences and identities. Contributors to the volume include Ulrich Bech, Stephen Vertovec, Rob Kroes and Natan Sznaider. Their research draws on a variety of intellectual disciplines, international contexts and methodological traditions from a range of local/global sites.

Maria Rovisco is Lecturer in Media and Communication at the University of Leicester, UK. She has published articles on mediated cosmopolitanism, globalization, and on the cultural borders of Europe. Among her recent publications are the co-edited books Cosmopolitanism in Practice (2009), The Ashgate Research Companion to Cosmopolitanism (2011) and Cosmopolitanism, Religion and the Public Sphere (2014). Magdalena Nowicka is a Research Assistant at the Institute of Sociology, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany and holder of the German Research Association scholarship. She is the author of a number of articles on European integration processes, collective identity, cosmopolitanism and spatial mobility.