La recherche porte sur l’actualité de la notion de cosmopolitisme. L’origine de cette notion remonte en effet aux racines de la philosophie, mais la période contemporaine présente une caractéristique inédite dans la mesure où elle offre la possibilité d’envisager, pour la première fois, une traduction politique de ce concept. Certes le cosmopolitisme a toujours eu une dimension politique, mais, aujourd’hui, la « citoyenneté » dont il est question dans l’idée de « citoyenneté mondiale » n’est plus seulement métaphorique. Ce travail peut donc être vu comme une théorisation générale du cosmopolitisme politique contemporain. La thèse défendue est la suivante : la notion de « citoyenneté mondiale » a gagné une effectivité politique nouvelle à l’époque contemporaine. Ce travail se propose d’analyser le cadre conceptuel proposé par ce qu’on appelle aujourd’hui la « démocratie cosmopolitique », c'est-à-dire le cosmopolitisme politique. Il s’agira de l’articuler à une compréhension plus générale du concept de cosmopolitisme, de montrer les biais par lesquels le cosmopolitisme gagne en effectivité sur le plan politique, et de mesurer la pertinence des critiques possibles. / The research focuses on the notion of cosmopolitanism as it applies today. The origin of this concept dates back to the roots of philosophy, but the contemporary period presents a unique characteristic which, for the first time, offers the possibility to consider this concept in a political sense. While cosmopolitanism has always had a political dimension, today "citizenship", when applied to "global citizenship", is no longer purely metaphorical.This work can therefore be seen as a general theory of contemporary political cosmopolitanism. The supported point of view is the following: the notion of "global citizenship" has taken a new political reality in modern times. This essay aims at analyzing the conceptual framework of what is now called the "cosmopolitan democracy", i.e. "political cosmopolitanism". It will articulate this conception to a more general understanding of the concept of cosmopolitanism, show the ways through which cosmopolitanism becomes more effective in the political sphere, and assess the relevance of possible critics.

This study examines expats and their families in the canton of Zürich, Switzerland. Their reasons and choices regarding integrating (or not) into the Swiss society, educational strategies for their children and possessed capital assets upon arrival in Switzerland is the three problem statements being explored. Pierre Bourdieu’s´ sociology is the theoretical framework for this study – the concept of different types of capital and educational strategies are especially important in this regard. Interviews with female expats whose children attend the Inter-Community School Zürich (ICSZ) were conducted and the stated purpose of the study was obtained. This study concludes that these expat families choose the international grounds rather than the local, due to language barriers. The language makes it hard for both themselves and their children to integrate and/or feel part of the Swiss community and society. The expats are integrated into the international ´expat-bubble´ rather than the Swiss society or community, and the reason is due to the lack of time spent with the local people, not mastering the language and/or not being interested enough to make the effort to integrate. This specific group of expats can be seen as an ´international elite- group´, based on their assets of capital, their cosmopolitan lifestyle and international social grounds.  These expats value their capitals highly but is not stating that one specific capital is more needed than another; all their assets are of worth and they do not consciously use a specific capital for their integration.

Este trabalho destaca um conjunto de três romances de Erico Verissimo cujos enredos estão ambientados total ou parcialmente fora do Brasil. Escritos num intervalo de vinte e sete anos, Saga (1940), O senhor embaixador (1965) e O prisioneiro (1967) vinculam-se a uma atitude cosmopolita que cedo se manifestou na carreira do escritor gaúcho, assinalando significativo afastamento do projeto nacionalista hegemônico no modernismo literário no Brasil. Essa abertura cosmopolita de Erico Verissimo, sua atuação como editor, seu engajamento na esfera pública como intelectual e certas circunstâncias históricas lhe permitiram inserir-se nas malhas das relações culturais interamericanas a partir do período da II Guerra Mundial. Essa posição privilegiada, convertida em \"poder simbólico\", promoveu a tradução de algumas de suas obras para o inglês e abriu espaço para que assumisse um papel proeminente como \"tradutor e intérprete cultural\" entre Brasil, Estados Unidos e, em alguma medida, América Hispânica. Na confluência entre história intelectual, estudo da recepção crítica e análise e interpretação literárias, busco estabelecer relações entre o percurso internacional especificamente norte-americano do escritor, as transformações temáticas, formais e ideológicas desses três romances \"estrangeiros\" e a trajetória da recepção crítica de tais textos, discutindo as transformações que o cosmopolitismo e o humanismo de Erico Verissimo sofreram ao longo de três décadas de intensa atividade artística e intelectual. / In this work I study three novels by Erico Verissimo in which the plot is set outside Brazil. Written over a period of twenty-seven years, Saga (1940), O senhor embaixador (1965) and O prisioneiro (1967) represent a cosmopolitan attitude that manifested early 9 in Verissimo\'s career, marking a significant departure from the hegemonic nationalist project in literary modernism in Brazil. His cosmopolitan openness, his work as an editor, his engagement in the public sphere as an intellectual, and certain other historical circumstances helped integrate Erico Verissimo into the mesh of Inter-American cultural affairs during and following World War II. This special position, converted into \"symbolic power\", promoted the translation of some of his works into English and allowed him to assume a prominent role as a \"cultural translator and interpreter\" between Brazil, United States and, to some extent, Hispanic America. In the frame of intellectual history, the study of critical reception, and literary analysis, I intend to understand the relation between Verissimo\'s international projection especially in the U.S. , thematic, formal, and ideological features of these three \"foreign\" novels and the critical reception of such texts. My aim is to discuss the changes that the cosmopolitanism and humanism of the author suffered over three decades of intense intellectual and artistic activity.

La thèse met en relief la dimension cosmopolite des œuvres dramatiques de Jean Giraudoux, en tenant compte de leurs mises en scène, de l’accueil que leur a réservé la critique et du contexte théâtral de l’époque, la IIIe République durant l’entre-deux-guerres. Responsable de la promotion des échanges culturels au ministère des Affaires étrangères, germaniste et amateur averti de littérature étrangère, Giraudoux considère le théâtre comme un lieu privilégié où différentes « voix » de l’humanité peuvent se faire entendre et composer un chant universel. Cette conception ouverte de l’altérité ne l’empêchera pas de se faire le défenseur des intérêts nationaux à la tête d’un Commissariat général à l'information en 1939-1940, mais aussi de faire écho à des préjugés encore tenaces dans son milieu intellectuel, comme le révèle la lecture de ses écrits politiques. Pour la concrétiser, il se consacrera à la rénovation du langage dramatique en étroite association avec Louis Jouvet à L’Athénée. L’analyse de ses personnages et des thèmes d’actualité sociale que reflètent ses pièces montre que le dramaturge a constamment esquissé des figures de l’Autre et fait référence à des cultures étrangères, au service de sa philosophie du cosmopolitisme. L’exploitation des fonds d’archives concernant les mises en scène produites par Louis Jouvet amène ensuite à penser que le monde dramatique de Giraudoux revêt une apparence à la fois exotique et hétéroclite qui a pu troubler le public parisien. Exporté hors de France lors des tournées de la troupe de Jouvet et adapté dans des langues étrangères par ses amis lettrés, le théâtre de Giraudoux sera néanmoins apprécié et reconnu par divers publics internationaux comme une tentative bien française de représenter la diversité du monde. / The thesis highlights the cosmopolitan dimension of Jean Giraudoux’s dramatic works, taking into account their staging, critical reception and the theatrical context of the Third Republic during the interwar period. Being responsible for promoting cultural exchanges at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Giraudoux, who was Germanist and an enthusiast of foreign literature, considers the theatre as a privileged means to show the different ‘voices’ of humanity and compose a universal song. Certainly, as the reading of his political writings reveals, Giraudoux defended national interests as the head of General Information Commission in 1939-1940, and echoed stubborn prejudices in his intellectual milieu. But at the same time, to concretize the conception of the theatre of alterity, he devoted himself to the renovation of the dramatic language in close association with Louis Jouvet at L’Athénée. The analysis of his characters and themes shows that Giraudoux has constantly sketched figures of the Other and referred to foreign cultures to demonstrate his philosophy of cosmopolitanism. Exploiting of Louis Jouvet’s archives in the National Library of France, concerning the stages produced by Jouvet, the thesis will think that Giraudoux’s dramatic world takes on an appearance both exotic and heteroclite that could disturb the Parisian public. While, exported outside of France during the tours of Jouvet’s troupe and adapted in foreign languages by his literary friends, Giraudoux’s theatre would be appreciated and recognized by various international audiences as a French attempt to represent the diversity of the world.

Este trabalho destaca um conjunto de três romances de Erico Verissimo cujos enredos estão ambientados total ou parcialmente fora do Brasil. Escritos num intervalo de vinte e sete anos, Saga (1940), O senhor embaixador (1965) e O prisioneiro (1967) vinculam-se a uma atitude cosmopolita que cedo se manifestou na carreira do escritor gaúcho, assinalando significativo afastamento do projeto nacionalista hegemônico no modernismo literário no Brasil. Essa abertura cosmopolita de Erico Verissimo, sua atuação como editor, seu engajamento na esfera pública como intelectual e certas circunstâncias históricas lhe permitiram inserir-se nas malhas das relações culturais interamericanas a partir do período da II Guerra Mundial. Essa posição privilegiada, convertida em \"poder simbólico\", promoveu a tradução de algumas de suas obras para o inglês e abriu espaço para que assumisse um papel proeminente como \"tradutor e intérprete cultural\" entre Brasil, Estados Unidos e, em alguma medida, América Hispânica. Na confluência entre história intelectual, estudo da recepção crítica e análise e interpretação literárias, busco estabelecer relações entre o percurso internacional especificamente norte-americano do escritor, as transformações temáticas, formais e ideológicas desses três romances \"estrangeiros\" e a trajetória da recepção crítica de tais textos, discutindo as transformações que o cosmopolitismo e o humanismo de Erico Verissimo sofreram ao longo de três décadas de intensa atividade artística e intelectual. / In this work I study three novels by Erico Verissimo in which the plot is set outside Brazil. Written over a period of twenty-seven years, Saga (1940), O senhor embaixador (1965) and O prisioneiro (1967) represent a cosmopolitan attitude that manifested early 9 in Verissimo\'s career, marking a significant departure from the hegemonic nationalist project in literary modernism in Brazil. His cosmopolitan openness, his work as an editor, his engagement in the public sphere as an intellectual, and certain other historical circumstances helped integrate Erico Verissimo into the mesh of Inter-American cultural affairs during and following World War II. This special position, converted into \"symbolic power\", promoted the translation of some of his works into English and allowed him to assume a prominent role as a \"cultural translator and interpreter\" between Brazil, United States and, to some extent, Hispanic America. In the frame of intellectual history, the study of critical reception, and literary analysis, I intend to understand the relation between Verissimo\'s international projection especially in the U.S. , thematic, formal, and ideological features of these three \"foreign\" novels and the critical reception of such texts. My aim is to discuss the changes that the cosmopolitanism and humanism of the author suffered over three decades of intense intellectual and artistic activity.

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The United Nations declared 2005 to 2014 to be the Decade of Education for Sustainable Development. This agenda is being implemented enthusiastically in university facilities management and operations, and while research in sustainability is increasingly common, tertiary curriculum has not experienced a similar push. This thesis undertakes to explore the expressions of sustainability in the academic activities of universities, and to determine what sort of change (if any) is appropriate. It also seeks to mediate what has become a polarised debate between idealists and pragmatists around the implementation of EFS. Two key features of the work are: 1) the investigation of sustainability in the aggregate student experience, rather than individual subjects; and 2) returning to first principles to avoid a normative stance a priori.¶ A range of methods is employed adaptively through the process of this alternately broad and deep exploratory study, including: participant observation, interviews, content analysis, questionnaires, social network analysis, bibliometrics, and data clustering. A systemic approach to Canadian and Australian case work captures the diversity of institutional roles and academic motivations at play in adaptation to the EFS agenda.¶ A stasis exists between the literature around higher education curriculum for sustainability and its implementation. The problem is exacerbated by the lack of pedagogical training in most university academics. A long-standing utilitarian sectoral culture and an increasingly job-focused student market further challenge such public-good concepts as sustainability in the academy. Four simple ideas sit at the heart of 35 years of environmental and sustainability education literature, despite changes in jargon: liberal education and broad foundations; interdisciplinarity in problem-solving; cosmopolitan philosophies; and civic action. Relevant disciplinary content includes biology, environmental science, policy, philosophy, human society, economics, and culture. Most of these elements are rare in the Australian sector, which instead offers science and technology-focused environmental programs with flexible requirements. A transition to the human realm is evident in programs targeting sustainability.¶ Curriculum cannot be viewed in isolation, however, as it concerns only one of a university’s many constituencies, and one facet of academic staff scholarship. For example, even in higher education sectors more sympathetic to a diversity of university niches and curricular models, like Canada’s, sustainability offerings operate at a tension from low-cost and low-effort teaching models. So-called ‘umbrella’ networking structures on cross-cutting topics must walk a careful line to be comprehensive yet non-competitive. They present great opportunities for sustainability teaching but are almost uniformly research-focused. A distinct sense emerges that the erosion of the collective identity and activities of academe has weakened the ability of universities to respond to new information and challenges in anything but corporate, isomorphic ways.¶ Two detailed Australian cases of research, research training and curriculum development activities around sustainability paint a rich picture of the agenda. The intractability of fragmentation between disciplines is evident, even in so-called interdisciplinary units. Problem-based topics often do not have an established social network or committee structure, and priorities can differ by budget unit. Disciplines provide identity, peers and cohesive research directions that can be compelling for individual academics. The most fascinating pattern that arises during the mapping of research co-authorship and co-supervisory relationships around sustainability is the bi-directional orientation: academics collaborate outside their departmental home on papers, but within that home to mentor research students. This combination unifies two contrasting theories of social capital transmission – those preferring dense and sparse networks, respectively – and may be ideal. Students then receive consistent messages while gaining access to the largest (non-redundant) set of human and technical resources via their supervisors’ personal networks. This hypothesis should be explored further: if supported, it would have major impacts on the rhetoric around collaboration in interdisciplinary units in particular.¶ Curriculum design processes in utilitarian universities are subject to the same fallibilities in adapting to sustainability as other institutions and the wider society. Change is motivated and moderated by financial imperatives and the scale of thought is often coincident with budgets. Engagement processes are often incomplete or undemocratic, hampered by inadequate leadership and shifting membership. Group learning via research, experimentation or vigorous debate is surprisingly rare. Finally, ad-hoc or project-based academic teams are rarely mandated to tackle the causes of problems, some of which can be intractable, and are limited to treating the symptoms. Incremental pragmatism may be a necessary element to university adaptation for EFS.¶ A number of recommendations are offered to improve interdisciplinarity and university values more generally. Individual academics should: offer additive alternatives to metrics and incentive schemes that maintain existing functions; act on common ground to rebuild a community of scholars; wield to the fullest the freedom in the classroom, and the opportunity to reflect, that university teaching allows; and, continue to debate ideas with passion and rigour, avoiding ‘academic correctness’. University management can contribute by: establishing a clear academic identity for the university beyond ‘excellence’, and supporting firm foundations for students based on that particular vision; taking a proactive view of course review and development and facilitating experimentation in those settings; intentionally fostering interdisciplinary units differently to disciplinary ones; and, establishing and recognising equivalence across a range of successful academic career archetypes.¶ This methodologically innovative work also suggests opportunities for extending the research, including: refining and testing the sustainability canon developed here; better understanding collaborative behaviour and the impact of various models of supervisory teams on student career paths; and, finding better ways of defining, modelling and evaluating interdisciplinary scholarship. Sustainability is likeliest to emerge from a healthy and independent tertiary sector, than one operating as an overt policy instrument.

Rooted in philosophy of education, the overall purpose of this dissertation is to renegotiate the relationship between education, religion, and democracy by placing the religious subject at the centre of this renegotiation. While education is the main focus, the study draws its energy from the fact that tensions around religious beliefs and practices seem to touch upon the very heart of liberal democracy. The study reads the tensions religious pluralism seems to be causing in contemporary education through a post-structural approach to difference and subjectivity. The purpose is accomplished in three movements. The first aims to show why the renegotiation is needed by examining how the relationship between education, democracy, and religion is currently being addressed in cosmopolitan education and deliberative education. The second movement introduces a model of democracy, radical democracy, that sees the process of defining the subject as a political process. It is argued that this model offers possibilities for seeing religion and the religious subject as part of the struggle for democracy. The third movement aims to develop how the relationship between education, democracy, and religion might change if we bring them together in a conversation whose conditions are not ‘owned’ by any one of them. To create this conversation, Hannah Arendt, Jacques Derrida, Søren Kierkegaard, and Emmanuel Levinas are brought together around three themes – love, freedom, and dialogue – referred to as ‘windows.’ The windows offer three examples in which religious subjectivity is made manifest but they also create a shift in perspective that invites other ways of seeing the tensions between religion and democracy. The aim of the study is to discuss how education might change when religion and democracy become questions for it through the perspectives offered in the windows and what this implies for the particular religious subject.

In tempi recenti il concetto di cosmopolitismo riscuote una certa popolarità nel campo della ricerca sociologica. Dopo diversi anni di riflessione teoretica, gli studi sul cosmopolitismo si focalizzano oggi sulla ricerca empirica. In linea con questa tendenza, il presente lavoro intende osservare un cosmopolitismo “dal basso”, che si manifesta nelle vite delle persone come una forma di apertura globale, nonché come un processo di trasformazione del sé. In particolare, questa tesi si focalizza sul cosmopolitismo come una categoria interpretativa utile a leggere i giovani nell’ambito di un’esperienza interculturale di vita all’estero, quale il Servizio Volontario Europeo. Più nel dettaglio, la ricerca si concentra sul volontariato europeo come ambito d’indagine in cui è possibile osservare nuove forme di appartenenza e di identificazione, oltre all’emergere di nuove pratiche. Attraverso una serie di interviste biografiche realizzate con giovani volontari, infatti, si è potuto constatare come le diverse appartenenze si affianchino a diversi atteggiamenti e rappresentazioni della dimensione locale, nazionale ed europea, in vista di una più ampia apertura al mondo. La ricerca descrive queste appartenenze che formano la base di una cultura ambivalente e cosmopolita così come viene sperimentata dai giovani volontari durante l’esperienza di mobilità internazionale da essi vissuta. Il lavoro mira dunque a chiarire il concetto di cosmopolitismo e propone un percorso di ricerca attraverso cui studiare il fenomeno mettendo in luce la nascita di nuove relazioni sociali, pratiche solidali e processi di trasformazione e di comprensione del sé. / Recently the concept of cosmopolitanism raises a great popularity within the sociological research. After several years of theoretical reflections, nowadays, the cosmopolitanism studies focus on the empirical research. According to this trend, this work observes a cosmopolitanism “from below”, among ordinary people as a form of global openness as well as a process of self-transformation. In particular, this thesis focuses on cosmopolitanism as an interpretative category, useful to read young people within an intercultural experience to spend a certain period of time practicing and living abroad, such as the European Voluntary Service. More in detail, this research studies the European Voluntary Service like a field where it is possible to observe new forms of belonging and identification and new practices. By a number of biographical interviews to young volunteers it has been possible to discover that different belongings go together with different attitudes and representations of the local, the national and the European dimension, towards a global openness. The research describes these attachments, which forms the basis of an ambivalent cosmopolitanism culture as it is experienced by young volunteers during their international experiences. Finally, the work aims to clarify the concept of cosmopolitanism and suggest a way to study this fenomenous by documenting the raise of new social relations, practices, solidarities and process of self-transformation and self-understanding.

Onward migration is an understudied process whereby people leave their country of origin, settle in a second country for a period of time, and then migrate on to a third country. This dissertation explores the transnational trajectories of one specific group of onward migrants. These are highly educated people who moved from Iran to Sweden as refugees following the Iranian Revolution in 1979. Then, after settling in Sweden for a period of time they subsequently moved on to London, England. Melissa Kelly explores how people live their lives across places. Using life history interviews conducted with individual onward migrants, Kelly draws out and contex-tualizes the individual and shared experiences of these migrants in specific space-time contexts, and highlights the meaning of both settlement and mobility in their lives. In doing so, she explores the circumstances that underlie the onward migration phenomenon, drawing attention to different geographical levels of scale, and linking social, economic and cultural perspectives. The main argument of the dissertation is that while place continues to be of sig-nificance, a broader understanding of migrant integration processes is required. Onward migration disrupts the categories usually used to comprehend the integration of migrants in narrowly defined nation state contexts, and encourages a more nuanced understanding of how we conceptualize both migration and settlement.