ABSTRACT
This book offers a critique of various strands of globalization thinking from the perspective of what I am calling ‘critical cosmopolitanism’. At the core of this critique is the idea that globalization theories have, over a period of two decades or so, uncritically offered us a strong vision of the singularity of the world, its oneness and ‘unicity’, to use Robertson’s term, a vision which follows from the insistence that globalization makes the world into a single place (and allows us to perceive it as a single place). My revisionist intent is to demonstrate that cosmopolitanism, if it is to retain any critical edge in the social sciences, has to be centrally concerned with generating a multiplicity of perspectives, and consequently allowing for the possibility of many worlds.
