Varieties of Cosmopolitanism and Indonesia's Global Identity
Event details
Indonesia Study Group
Date & time
Wednesday 20 July 2011
12.30pm–2.00pm
Venue
Seminar Room B, Coombs Building, Fellows Road, ANU
Speaker
Thomas Pepinsky, Cornell University
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Cosmopolitanism refers to the idea that one’s ethnic or national identity is complementary or subordinate to a global community that transcends the nation-state. But the terms of cosmopolitanism are contested, and Indonesians (like others in the Global South) can think of their “global identity” in many different ways. Should Indonesians look to the West? To the Muslim world? To Southeast or East Asia? This presentation will explore the varieties of cosmopolitanism in contemporary Indonesia, introducing conceptual and methodological tools through which to study how socioeconomic transformation shapes Indonesians’ global identity.
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