By examining cultural consumption, tastes and imaginaries as a means of relating to the world, this book describes the effects of globalization on young people from an aesthetic and cultural perspective. It employs the concept of aesthetico-cultural cosmopolitanism to analyse the emergence of an aesthetic openness to alterity as a new generational "good taste". Aesthetico-Cultural Cosmopolitanism and French Youth critically examines the consumption of cultural products and imaginaries that provide genuine insight into social change, particularly in regards to young people, who play the largest role in cultural circulation. This book will be of interest to students and academics across a wide range of readers, including cultural theorists, and students engaged in debates on cultural consumption, the globalization of culture and transnational aesthetic codes.
Les mer
By examining cultural consumption, tastes and imaginaries as a means of relating to the world, this book describes the effects of globalization on young people from an aesthetic and cultural perspective.
Les mer
1. How Young People Develop a Taste for the World Part 1: Configuration of a Taste for the World 2. The Morphology of Cultural Consumption Repertoires 3. From Global Cultural References to Global Imaginaries 4. Five Configurations of Aesthetico-Cultural CosmopolitanismConclusion to Part I: A Continuum of ConfigurationsPart 2: What Determines a Taste for the World?5. Omnivorism and Aesthetico-Cultural Cosmopolitanism6. Language Skills and Aesthetico-Cultural Cosmopolitanism7. Mobility and Aesthetico-Cultural CosmopolitanismPart 3: Cosmopolitan Amateurs8. Understanding the World 9. Feeling the World10. Tensions and DivisionsConclusion to Part III: Rejecting the Cultural Discount Hypothesis 11. General Conclusion: A Modern Sensibility for Today's World.
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By examining cultural consumption, tastes and imaginaries as a means of relating to the world, this book describes the effects of globalization on young people from an aesthetic and cultural perspective. It employs the concept of aesthetic-cultural cosmopolitanism to analyse the emergence of an aesthetic openness to alterity as a new generational ‘good taste’. Aesthetico-Cultural Cosmopolitanism and French Youth critically examines the consumption of cultural products and imaginaries that provides genuine insight into social change, particularly in regard to young people who play the largest role in cultural circulation. This book will be of interest to a wide range of readers, including cultural theorists and students engaged in debates on cultural consumption, the globalization of culture and transnational aesthetic codes.
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The book adds new empirical evidence highly relevant to interpretations and arguments about cosmopolitanism. … The authors’ work is perhaps the most rejuvenating research on a topic that has been extensively studied over the last two decades– almost to the point of becoming trivialized. Their ongoing empirical and theoretical efforts might help shape the intellectual contours of future work on global, cosmopolitan and transnational studies. (Victor Roudometof, Department of Social and Political Sciences, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus)“This excellent book brings together original ideas about globalization and cosmopolitanism in a rich empirical study of the consumption practices of French youth. Because it brings together the sociology of culture with the anthropology of globalization, it will be of great interest to all those who care about the future of transnational cultural practices.” (Arjun Appadurai, New York University, USA)“The authors offer the reader an original and innovative analysis of contemporary global cultural tastes and passions. The fivefold configuration models proposed in this book will undoubtedly become a template to which forthcoming studies will have to confront themselves.” (Stéphane Dufoix, University Paris Nanterre, France) “Based on an innovative survey revealing young adults’ cultural preferences, this book sheds unexpected light on contemporary forms of appropriation in a world now structured by the international circulation of symbolic goods.” (Jean-Louis Fabiani, Central European University, Hungary)
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Examines the aesthetic and cultural consumption that shapes an individual’s relationship to the worldUses the concept of cosmopolitanism to explain ordinary, everyday behavioursProposes a new subjective figure, that of the cosmopolitan amateur
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ISBN
9783319663104
Publisert
2018-03-19
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Springer International Publishing AG
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6618 gr
Høyde
210 mm
Bredde
148 mm
Aldersnivå
Research, P, 06
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Engelsk
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Biographical note

Vincenzo Cicchelli is an Associate Professor at the Université Paris Descartes, France and a Research Fellow at GEMASS (CNRS/Paris-Sorbonne), France.

Sylvie Octobre is a Researcher at the Département des études, de la prospective et des statistiques (DEPS) of the French Ministry of Culture, and an Associate Research Fellow at GEMASS (CNRS/Paris-Sorbonne), France.