CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Bruce Robbins and Paulo Lemos Horta

PART I. JUSTICE

  1. The Cosmopolitanism of the Poor

Silviano Santiago (Translated by Magdalena Edwards and Paulo Lemos Horta)

  2. George Orwell, Cosmopolitanism, and Global Justice

Bruce Robbins

  3. Cosmopolitanism Goes to Class

Walter Benn Michaels

  4. Utonal Life: A Genealogy for Global Ethics

Leela Gandhi

PART II. SOLIDARITY

  5. Cosmopolitanism and the Problem of Solidarity

David A. Hollinger

  6. Afropolitanism

Achille Mbembe (Translated by Paulo Lemos Horta)

  7. Cosmopolitan Exchanges: Scenes of Colonial and Postcolonial Reading

Elleke Boehmer

  8. The Cosmopolitan Experience and Its Uses

Thomas Bender

  9. Cosmopolitanism and the Claims of Religious Identity

Jean Bethke Elshtain

PART III. POWER

10. The Cosmopolitan Idea and National Sovereignty

Robert J. C. Young

11. Spectral Sovereignty, Vernacular Cosmopolitans, and Cosmopolitan Memories

Homi K. Bhabha

12. Cosmopolitan Prejudice

Paulo Lemos Horta

PART IV. CRITIQUE

13. Α Stoic Critique of Cosmopolitanism

Phillip Mitsis

14. A Cosmopolitanism of Connections

Craig Calhoun

15. The Pitfalls and Promises of Afropolitanism

Emma Dabiri

PART V. SPACES

16. City of Youth and Mellow Elusiveness: Accra’s Cosmopolitan Constellations

Ato Quayson

17. The Cosmopolitanisms of Citizenship

Jeremy Waldron

18. Afropolitan Style and Unusable Global Spaces

Ashleigh Harris

19. Other Cosmopolitans

Yan Haiping

Afterword

Kwame Anthony Appiah

About the Contributors

Index