Geography and ethics: spaces of cosmopolitan responsibility
J Popke - Progress in Human Geography, 2007 - journals.sagepub.com
Progress in Human Geography, 2007•journals.sagepub.com
Now as then, however, the very fact that we are, as Kant says,'woven together'with
geographically distant peoples and places impels us to work toward a cosmopolitan stance
that would transcend our narrow nationalist or sectarian interests. It is perhaps salutary in
this regard that now, at the turn of the twenty-first century, the political and ethical
implications of a cosmopolitan order are once again the subject of significant reflection (see
Beck and Sznaider, 2006a, for an extensive bibliography). In this report, I take up these …
geographically distant peoples and places impels us to work toward a cosmopolitan stance
that would transcend our narrow nationalist or sectarian interests. It is perhaps salutary in
this regard that now, at the turn of the twenty-first century, the political and ethical
implications of a cosmopolitan order are once again the subject of significant reflection (see
Beck and Sznaider, 2006a, for an extensive bibliography). In this report, I take up these …
Now as then, however, the very fact that we are, as Kant says,‘woven together’with geographically distant peoples and places impels us to work toward a cosmopolitan stance that would transcend our narrow nationalist or sectarian interests. It is perhaps salutary in this regard that now, at the turn of the twenty-first century, the political and ethical implications of a cosmopolitan order are once again the subject of significant reflection (see Beck and Sznaider, 2006a, for an extensive bibliography).
In this report, I take up these issues in three quite different registers: urban space, migration and hospitality, and postcolonial studies. In each of these cases, as we will see, the cosmopolitan has been deployed as a figure for reasserting certain claims about global responsibility, and for reanimating a form of ethics that is not solely dependent upon spatial proximity.
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