'Cosmopolitanism', Stuart Hall in conversation with Pnina Werbner, March 2006
Filmed and edited by Haim Bresheeth
0:03:03 Thoughts on cosmopolitanism in the world today; relationship to globalisation; limited nature of cosmopolitanism; global power overrides global inter-connectedness though the concept is present;
4:09:06 Role of diasporas; globalization from below, linked to systems of inequality and power; cosmopolitanism for global entrepreneurs also refugees and asylum seekers etc.; vernacular cosmopolitanism; identity
10:18:09 Own cosmopolitanism; Kant and enlightenment; nationhood; Palestine and friendship with Edward Said
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22:41:15 Cosmopolitanism without commitment; liberalism
25:50:16 Collective cosmopolitanism; trade and the Middle East; tolerance; cosmopolitan sites
30:21:15 Imposition of cosmopolitan values; democracy and human rights not interchangeable with cosmopolitanism; imposition of democracy, new imperialism; value of real democracy; South Africa and Mandela; enlightenment and struggle for democratic rights; teaching of cosmopolitan values in schools; Britain a mixed-cultural society