L4: Mobility and the Cosmopolitan Flashcards
Who are cosmopolitan people? (2)
People who don’t really feel like they belong from a specific part of the world (1)
Just from THE world (1)
Who are diaspora people? (2)
People who feel belonging in a country that they moved to (1)
Also maintain belonging to the country that they originate from (1)
What created the idea of the cosmopolitan person? (1)
Globalisation at the economic and communitative level (1)
How may a person who is mobile be described? (2)
Living in different places without being tied to one (1)
Happy to learn about other, culturally different people (1)
What does supermodernity mean? (1)
Give examples (3)
At home in non places (1)
Hotel (1)
Airports (1)
Refugee camps (1)
What does supermodernity mean for cosmopolitan people? (1)
They may not be rooted in a particular place, but will need to live IN a particular place (1)
What are non-places chracterised by? (1)
Anonymity and homogenity
What does supermodernity turn places into? (1)
Objects (1)
What does Pnina Werbner argue about cosmopolitans? (2)
They are not always the elite of society (ie. business people) (1)
Immigrant communities create diasporic homelands (2)
What do global movements (lots of people relocating) result in? (2)
Creolisations (1)
Hybrid cultures (1)
What is cultural compression? (1)
The increased sentitivity to and need to defend their cultural distinctiveness
What do Rapport & Dawson say that the idea of “home” has changed to? (2)
A routine of practices that repeat habitual social interactions (1)
Rituals that use a personal name (1)
