How is the individual socialized today, in Rome, Bombay, Lagos or Tokyo? Ours is a globalized world, a world in which a young person in Burkina Faso can identify with interstellar Star Wars heroes, a world in which a New York trader drinks the same Starbucks coffee as his counterpart in Taiwan. How is human experience shaped in a world such as this?
Conceived from a Western perspective, in reference to the nation-state, the concepts of classical sociology are no longer able to address the paradoxes of the contemporary world. Humanity now shares an ever increasing number of imaginaries and cultural products, whilst glorifying diversity more than ever. Societies are constantly in contact with otherness through international flows, whilst remaining ever tempted by xenophobia and the retreat into nationalism.
This is the contribution of cosmopolitan sociology, such as it is presented in this book, in a vision that is no more enchanted or utopian than it is elitist or ideological. This book draws on and discusses an abundant international literature on cosmopolitanism, often not well known to Francophone readers. It develops an original conceptual framework to understand individuals' daily experiences of this world that is intrinsically plural and shared.
Vincenzo Cicchelli is a lecturer at the University Panthéon-Paris Descartes, and a researcher with Gemass (University Paris Sorbonne/CNRS). He has notably published L'Esprit cosmopolite. Voyages de formation des jeunes en Europe (Presses de Sciences Po, 2012). He edits the collection "Youth in a Globalizing world" (Brill).
Prologue / HEURS ET MALHEURS DU COSMOPOLITISME
Introduction / L'IMAGINATION COSMOPOLITE
COMPRENDRE UN MONDE PLURIEL ET COMMUN
I - LES CARACTÈRES DISTINCTIFS DU MONDE COSMOPOLITE
Chapitre 1 / INTERDÉPENDANCE ET ÉCHELLES
Un espace transnational scalaire
L'État-nation dans le monde cosmopolite
Chapitre 2 / LES MATRICES DE LA SINGULARITÉ
Le monde comme totalité et les risques globaux
Appréhender les faits culturels dans le monde cosmopolite
Répertoires cosmopolites
Chapitre 3 / LA PLACE DE LA PLURALITÉ
Des expériences contradictoires
Sous la menace de la globalisation
Une promotion des identités culturelles
Hybridations
Un universel émanant de la pluralité
Conclusion de la première partie
II - LA SOCIALISATION COSMOPOLITE
Chapitre 4 / PENSER LA SOCIALISATION COSMOPOLITE
À la recherche de la socialisation cosmopolite
Deux axes de la socialisation
Jalons pour une herméneutique de l’altérité
Chapitre 5 / QU'EST-CE QU'UN COSMOPOLITE ?
Controverses
Une alternative
Chapitre 6 / LES FORMES ÉLÉMENTAIRES DE L'ESPRIT COSMOPOLITE
Un processus réflexif
L’esprit cosmopolite au quotidien
Vivre en cosmopolite : terrains
Conclusion de la deuxième partie
Conclusion / LA SOCIOLOGIE COSMOPOLITE COMME PROJET