Community, Cosmopolitanism and the Problem of Human Commonality (Anthropology, Culture and Society) - Hardcover

Amit, Vered; Rapport, Nigel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0745329047 ISBN 13: 9780745329048

Publisher: Pluto Press, 2012

Synopsis

Do notions of community remain central to our sense of who we are, or can we see beyond community closures to a human whole?

This volume explores the nature of contemporary sociality. It focuses on the ethical, organisational and emotional claims and opportunities sought or fashioned for mobilising and evading social collectivities in a world of mobile subjects.

Vered Amit and Nigel Rapport present an examination of the tensions and interactions between everyday forms of fluid fellowship, culturally normative claims to identity, and opportunities for realising a universal humanity.

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About the Authors

Vered Amit is Professor of Anthropology at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. Her recent publications include, as co-author with Nigel Rapport, Community, Cosmopolitanism and the Problem of Human Commonality (Pluto, 2012), and as editor Thinking through Sociality: An Anthropological Interrogation of Key Concepts (2015).

Nigel Rapport is Professor of Anthropological and Philosophical Studies at the University of St Andrews. He is author of Community, Cosmopolitanism and the Problem of Human Commonality (Pluto, 2012) and The Trouble with Community: Anthropological Reflections on Movement, Identity and Collectivity (Pluto, 2002).

Edition details

• Publisher: Pluto Press
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0745329047
• ISBN 13: 9780745329048
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 240