Issue 1: Cosmopolitanism as critical and creative practice

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

AbstractPDF (808KB)


The precarious ecologies of cosmopolitanism

Marsha Meskimmon, Loughborough University

AbstractPDF (886KB)


‘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

AbstractPDF (916KB)


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

Renate Dohmen, University of Louisiana

AbstractPDF (942KB)


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

AbstractPDF (985KB)


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

AbstractPDF (810KB)


Trick questions: cosmopolitan hospitality

Eleanor Byrne, Manchester Metropolitan University

AbstractPDF (961KB)


Google paintings

John Timberlake

Abstract; PDF (888KB)


Contributors

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