Media Corporatism and Cosmopolitanism

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Recent literature on cosmopolitanism (Clifford 1998; Robbins 1998a) tries to go beyond defining cosmopolitanism in opposition to locality. Beck (chapter 6, in this volume) urges us to ‘think about the cosmopolitan disposition as something that does not have to exclude the perspective of the local’. Instead of approaching cosmopolitanism with a universalist nostalgia in the idiom of a complete detachment (Clifford 1998), we could consider it a reality of (re)attachment with multiple affiliations. In cosmopolitanism there is definitely a concern to go beyond the locality. However, it can still be conceived of as a mode of attachment, which, by entailing multiple, uneven and non-exclusive affiliations, challenges the conventional notions of locality as well as of belonging.

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