Community, Cosmopolitanism and the Problem of Human Commonality

Globalisation has dislocated community relations, and yet notions of community remain central to our sense of who we are. *BR**BR*This book examines the changing nature of community through an exploration of mobile subjects, such as migrants and business travellers, and the tension between culturally specific notions of identity and a universal sense of humanity. The authors develop a 'cosmopolitan anthropology' which engages with both the specific and the universal.*BR**BR*This book offers a new perspective on community through a dialogue between two eminent anthropologists, who come from distinct, but complementary, positions.

Vered Amit is Professor of Anthropology at Concordia University in Montreal. She is the author or editor of a number of books including, with Nigel Rapport, The Trouble with Community: Anthropological Reflections on Movement, Identity and Collectivity (Pluto Press, 2002) and co-editor with Noel Dyck of Claiming Individuality (Pluto Press, 2006). Nigel Rapport is Professor of Anthropological and Philosophical Studies at the University of St Andrews, where he directs the Centre for Cosmopolitan Studies. He is the author of a number of books including Transcendent Individual (1997) and I am Dynamite: An Alternative Anthropology of Power (2003).