Political sociologies of the cultural encounter : essays on borders, cosmopolitanism and globalization / edited by Barrie Axford, Alistair Brisbourne, Sandra Halperin, Claudia Lueders.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : the importance of the "cultural encounter" / Barrie Axford, Alistair Brisbourne, and Claudia Lueders -- What is a border comrade? / Olivier Thomas Krams -- Seeing from the border with Chris Rumford : towards cosmopolitan borders and a multiperspectival border studies / Anthony Cooper -- Politics of space, strangeness and culture in the global age / Spiros Makris -- The complex trajectories of the commoner : cosmopolitanism, localisation and nationalism / Nick Stevenson -- Artistic encounters with difference, aesthetic cosmopolitanism and the political imagination / Maria Rovisco -- The story of the ship-in-a-bottle : encountering strangeness and familiarity through a globalised object / Alison Hulme -- Don't look back in anger : a reflection on strangeness and borders in academia / Claudia Lueders -- Europe in crises : Europe's others and other Europes from a global perspective / Didem Buhari-Gulmez and Seckin Baris Gulmez -- Globalization : interactive and integral / Victor Roudometoff -- Cosmopolitan borders, strangeness, and inter-cultural encounters / Robert Holton -- Religion and globalising processes : an investigation into the relationship between religious practices and institutions and the complex historical forms of global social change / Peter Gardella and Darren O'Byrne -- Challenges of globalization and the cosmopolitan imagination : the implications of the anthropocene / Gerard Delanty.

"This book offers transdisciplinary scholarship which challenges the agendas of and markers around traditional social scientific fields. It builds on the belief that the study of major issues in the global cultural and political economies benefit from a perspective that rejects the limitations imposed by established boundaries, whether disciplinary, conceptual, symbolic or material. Established and early career academics explore and embrace contemporary political sociology following the 'global' and 'cultural' turns of recent decades. Categories such as state, civil society, family, migration, citizenship and identity are interrogated and sometimes found to be ill-suited to the task of analyzing global complexities. The limits of global theory, the challenges of global citizenship, and the relationship between globalization and situated and mobile subjects and objects are all referenced in this book. The book will be of interest to scholars of International Relations, Political Science, Sociology, Political Sociology, Social Theory, Geography, Area studies and European studies"-- Provided by publisher.