Cosmopolitanism and nationalism in a globalized world


Yegenoglu M.

ETHNIC AND RACIAL STUDIES, cilt.28, sa.1, ss.103-131, 2005 (SSCI) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 28 Sayı: 1
  • Basım Tarihi: 2005
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1080/0141987042000280030
  • Dergi Adı: ETHNIC AND RACIAL STUDIES
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.103-131
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: cosmopolitanism, nationalism, subalternity, globalization, diaspora, cultural studies
  • Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Hayır

Özet

The disenfranchised subaltern groups of the South disappear from the current Anglo-American cultural studies discourse on globalization as their conditions are made synonymous with the diasporas in the First World centres. However, if we do not take the metropolitan situation as the sole important site of transnationality, but turn our attention to the lives of subaltern groups in the South we will gather a different picture of globalization. The essay discusses the various ways in which cosmopolitanism is presented as offering the means of new forms of belonging and politics that are beyond the confining forms of the nation-state. By proposing to rethink the place of the nation-state within globalization, the essay suggests being less dismissive of the need for nationalism in the Third World, a nationalism that is capable of articulating the will of the excluded subaltern populations.