Political Sociologies of the Cultural Encounter Essays on Borders, Cosmopolitanism, and Globalization

Introduction : the importance of the "cultural encounter" / Barrie Axford, Alistair Brisbourne, and Claudia Lueders -- What is a border comrade? / Olivier Thomas Krams -- Seeing from the border with Chris Rumford : towards cosmopolitan borders and a multiperspectival border studies / Anthony Cooper -- Politics of space, strangeness and culture in the global age / Spiros Makris -- The complex trajectories of the commoner : cosmopolitanism, localisation and nationalism / Nick Stevenson -- Artistic encounters with difference, aesthetic cosmopolitanism and the political imagination / Maria Rovisco -- The story of the ship-in-a-bottle : encountering strangeness and familiarity through a globalised object / Alison Hulme -- Don't look back in anger : a reflection on strangeness and borders in academia / Claudia Lueders -- Europe in crises : Europe's others and other Europes from a global perspective / Didem Buhari-Gulmez and Seckin Baris Gulmez -- Globalization : interactive and integral / Victor Roudometoff -- Cosmopolitan borders, strangeness, and inter-cultural encounters / Robert Holton -- Religion and globalising processes : an investigation into the relationship between religious practices and institutions and the complex historical forms of global social change / Peter Gardella and Darren O'Byrne -- Challenges of globalization and the cosmopolitan imagination : the implications of the anthropocene / Gerard Delanty.