Cosmopolitanism and Global Protests

Abstract

This Special Issue of Globalizations brings together a series of articles examining the relevance of global protest movements for contemporary debates on cosmopolitanism. This short editorial introduction highlights the major themes of this issue, placing particular emphasis on the ways the protests display a cosmopolitan dimension, and outlines the eight articles that follow. The authors advance a novel form of theorizing cosmopolitanism from below that delves into the evolving nature of sometimes overlooked features of the protests, such as the emergence of shared vocabularies, varying protest morphologies, the meaning of ad-hoc coalitions, translations of protest repertoire, and reconceptualized notions of representation.