Memory Studies and its Trajectories When the authors of this volume were asked 'to reflect on (y)our own work through the prism of (y)our companions' I was somewhat apprehensive. The social sciences never had the kind of personal awakening like say 'new journalism' or some of the humanities driven by a more subjective approach to writing. Even if most of the research questions we pose involve s...

In 1962, the historian A. B. L. Awasthi wrote, “the Turkish conquest of India began with the Arab conquest of Sind.” The sentiment expresses a common teleology according to which Muslims, irregardless of their ethnicity, linguistic identities, or specific sectarian affiliations, acted in concert across more than five centuries to affect a “slow progress of Islamic power” in South Asia as D. R. ...

In his article "World Literature Paolo Bartoloni reflects on the topos of the crisis of literature and the humanities. An urge to question the status and the relevance of literature; to investigate the relation between literature and literary studies; and the location of literature within the context of a transf last three decades. Assuming that a bond exists between literature and the world, w...

This article explores the Pinochet case, widely heralded as a landmark, as a case of 'intermestic' human rights that raises difficult normative and empirical questions concerning cosmopolitan justice. The article is a contribution to the sociology of human rights from the perspective of methodological cosmopolitanism, developing conceptual tools and methods to study how cosmopolitanizing state ...

Abstract Over the course of past three decades, Western politics has gone from one extreme to another. Whereas immediate post-Cold War years were marked by a cosmopolitan heyday, in recent we are witnessing nationalist backlash. Given this heightened political polarization, quest for viable middle ground becomes all more pressing. The unlikely candidate that article considers is body thought be...

In earlier publications based on the research discussed in this article (e.g. Szerszynski and Urry 2002), we argued that an emergent culture of cosmopolitanism, refracted into different forms amongst different social groups, was being nurtured by a widespread 'banal globalism'--a proliferation of global symbols and narratives made available through the media and popular culture. In the current ...