The Looming Shadows of the Walls. Is a Cosmopolitan Europe still Possible?
<span class="abs_content">In a Europe of many lights and shadows, cosmopolitan sociology provides a valid theoretical framework to distinguish one from the other. If cosmopolitan sociology is an attempt to understand how individuals, social groups and institutions deal with the chall...
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| description | <span class="abs_content">In a Europe of many lights and shadows, cosmopolitan sociology provides a valid theoretical framework to distinguish one from the other. If cosmopolitan sociology is an attempt to understand how individuals, social groups and institutions deal with the challenges of ever more transnational social processes, then the European issue can be fully inserted within such an approach. From this point of view, following the austerity policies and recent events involving Syrian refugees and the attack by Daesh activists at the heart of Europe, sociology has started to enquire whether a cosmopolitan Europe is still possible. Conversaly, in the history of Europe and in its Constitutional Treaties, traces of cosmopolitanism are to be found almost everywhere. In this context, our study examines the crisis pervading Europe today and highlights the standing back to a certain extent of cosmopolitan sociology. At the same time, it stresses the hope that a change of direction will occur and the opportunity grasped of reflecting more deeply on the founding principles of cosmopolitan Europe.</span><br /> |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b5b59758b0a54530ac651437cf32280c2023-09-20T07:59:54ZengCoordinamento SIBAPartecipazione e Conflitto1972-76232035-66092015-01-018362564210.1285/i20356609v8i3p62514700The Looming Shadows of the Walls. Is a Cosmopolitan Europe still Possible?Vincenzo Cicchelli0Massimo Pendenza1University of Paris Descartes, Gemass (Paris Sorbonne/CNRS)University of Salerno<span class="abs_content">In a Europe of many lights and shadows, cosmopolitan sociology provides a valid theoretical framework to distinguish one from the other. If cosmopolitan sociology is an attempt to understand how individuals, social groups and institutions deal with the challenges of ever more transnational social processes, then the European issue can be fully inserted within such an approach. From this point of view, following the austerity policies and recent events involving Syrian refugees and the attack by Daesh activists at the heart of Europe, sociology has started to enquire whether a cosmopolitan Europe is still possible. Conversaly, in the history of Europe and in its Constitutional Treaties, traces of cosmopolitanism are to be found almost everywhere. In this context, our study examines the crisis pervading Europe today and highlights the standing back to a certain extent of cosmopolitan sociology. At the same time, it stresses the hope that a change of direction will occur and the opportunity grasped of reflecting more deeply on the founding principles of cosmopolitan Europe.</span><br />http://siba-ese.unisalento.it/index.php/paco/article/view/15585europecosmopolitanismcosmopolitan sociologycosmopolitan europecitizenship |
| spellingShingle | Vincenzo Cicchelli Massimo Pendenza The Looming Shadows of the Walls. Is a Cosmopolitan Europe still Possible? Partecipazione e Conflitto europe cosmopolitanism cosmopolitan sociology cosmopolitan europe citizenship |
| title | The Looming Shadows of the Walls. Is a Cosmopolitan Europe still Possible? |
| title_full | The Looming Shadows of the Walls. Is a Cosmopolitan Europe still Possible? |
| title_fullStr | The Looming Shadows of the Walls. Is a Cosmopolitan Europe still Possible? |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Looming Shadows of the Walls. Is a Cosmopolitan Europe still Possible? |
| title_short | The Looming Shadows of the Walls. Is a Cosmopolitan Europe still Possible? |
| title_sort | looming shadows of the walls is a cosmopolitan europe still possible |
| topic | europe cosmopolitanism cosmopolitan sociology cosmopolitan europe citizenship |
| url | http://siba-ese.unisalento.it/index.php/paco/article/view/15585 |
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