- Title Pages
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
-
1 The Cosmopolitanism of the Poor -
2 George Orwell, Cosmopolitanism, and Global Justice -
3 Cosmopolitanism Goes to Class -
4 Utonal Life -
5 Cosmopolitanism and the Problem of Solidarity -
6 Afropolitanism -
7 Cosmopolitan Exchanges -
8 The Cosmopolitan Experience and Its Uses -
9 Cosmopolitanism and the Claims of Religious Identity -
10 The Cosmopolitan Idea and National Sovereignty -
11 Spectral Sovereignty, Vernacular Cosmopolitans, and Cosmopolitan Memories -
12 Cosmopolitan Prejudice -
13 A Stoic Critique of Cosmopolitanism -
14 A Cosmopolitanism of Connections -
15 The Pitfalls and Promises of Afropolitanism -
16 City of Youth and Mellow Elusiveness -
17 The Cosmopolitanisms of Citizenship -
18 Afropolitan Style and Unusable Global Spaces -
19 Other Cosmopolitans - Afterword
- About the Contributors
- Index
The Pitfalls and Promises of Afropolitanism
The Pitfalls and Promises of Afropolitanism
- Chapter:
- (p.201) 15 The Pitfalls and Promises of Afropolitanism
- Source:
- Cosmopolitanisms
- Author(s):
Emma Dabiri
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
Emma Dabiri critiques mainstream modes of Afropolitanism as a type of imperialism of cultural consumerism capitalized upon by Western markets and as primarily concerned with commodifying “African flavored” versions of Western conventions and forms. She contemplates the alternative of an Afropolitanism beyond such elite consumerism that would be guided by African precolonial modernity, epistemologies, and forms of creativity.
Keywords: Afropolitan, consumerism, branding, markets, youth culture, precolonial
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- Title Pages
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
-
1 The Cosmopolitanism of the Poor -
2 George Orwell, Cosmopolitanism, and Global Justice -
3 Cosmopolitanism Goes to Class -
4 Utonal Life -
5 Cosmopolitanism and the Problem of Solidarity -
6 Afropolitanism -
7 Cosmopolitan Exchanges -
8 The Cosmopolitan Experience and Its Uses -
9 Cosmopolitanism and the Claims of Religious Identity -
10 The Cosmopolitan Idea and National Sovereignty -
11 Spectral Sovereignty, Vernacular Cosmopolitans, and Cosmopolitan Memories -
12 Cosmopolitan Prejudice -
13 A Stoic Critique of Cosmopolitanism -
14 A Cosmopolitanism of Connections -
15 The Pitfalls and Promises of Afropolitanism -
16 City of Youth and Mellow Elusiveness -
17 The Cosmopolitanisms of Citizenship -
18 Afropolitan Style and Unusable Global Spaces -
19 Other Cosmopolitans - Afterword
- About the Contributors
- Index
