'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

16:52:00 Jamaica and Caribbean diaspora; natural cosmopolitanism; impact of African colonization; anthropological concepts of culture

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