Comments on: Mica Nava on ‘vernacular cosmopolitanism’

By: Jean

Jean — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 06:37:30 +0000

Oh, and in regard to civil society vs. public sphere – i talk about ephemeral or ‘episodic’ micro-publics in relation to the cultural public sphere – and also about cultural citizenship as everyday practice, so yeah, a culturalised form of civil society is constituted that way, at least in this particular sociological imagination.

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vernacular literacy at creativity/machine — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 06:08:00 +0000

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By: Jean

Jean — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 05:52:09 +0000

Thanks – haven’t actually read it yet (piles upon piles upon piles of unread material on my desk already) but I was hoping I’d get something like what you describe out of it!

By: Anne

Anne — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 11:18:45 +0000

my students had a really hard time when i assigned this article, but i think that mostly had to do with having no exposure to a selfridge’s store, or english life. still, i really like the focus on the everyday vernacular, the granular detail that allows a reformulation of cosmopolitanism as lived experience, in all its messiness. by focussing on the dynamics of difference, on miscegenation and mongrelization, cosmopolitanism emerges as “more than” global citizenship (see bowden in same issue) and perhaps closer to what stevenson (same issue) refers to as civil society rather than the public sphere?