ABSTRACT
Cosmopolitanism has received much attention in many of the inter-disciplinary discourses on globalization and transnational migration. Global capitalism, in its various forms and processes, has seen the engagement of a multitude of social actors and networks, the production and consumption of transnational social practices (Lash and Urry 1994; Tomlinson 1999; Smith and Guarnizo 1998). The new wave of transnational migration from developing regions such as Kerala to Western Europe is suggestive of competing paradigms and challenges of a post-national cosmopolitan society. This chapter hopes to shed light on how new forms of cosmopolitanism co-exist through counter-hegemonic forms and identities through a range of economic, social and cultural practices, mediated and shaped by gender, and contexualised within the dynamics of a global cosmopolitan society.
