Edited by Eleanor Byrne and Berthold Schoene, Manchester Metropolitan University

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Cosmopolitanism as critical and creative practice: an introduction

Eleanor Byrne and Berthold Schoene, Manchester Metropolitan University

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The world on a train: global narration in Geoff Ryman’s 253

Berthold Schoene, Manchester Metropolitan University

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The precarious ecologies of cosmopolitanism

Marsha Meskimmon, Loughborough University

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‘How dare you rubbish my town!’: place listening as an approach to socially engaged art within UK urban regeneration contexts

Elaine Speight, Birkbeck College London

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Towards a cosmopolitan criticality? Relational aesthetics, Rirkrit Tiravanija and transnational encounters with pad thai

Renate Dohmen, University of Louisiana

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Parallel editing, multi-positionality and maximalism: cosmopolitan effects as explored in some art works by Melanie Jackson and Vivienne Dick

Rachel Garfield, University of Reading

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Offshore cosmopolitanism: reading the nation in Rana Dasgupta’s Tokyo Cancelled, Lawrence Chua’s Gold by the Inch and Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger

Liam Connell, University of Winchester

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Trick questions: cosmopolitan hospitality

Eleanor Byrne, Manchester Metropolitan University

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Google paintings

John Timberlake

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Contributors

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