ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to investigate the arguments for a cosmopolitan turn in the social sciences when researching and writing on race and racialised peoples. It examines the possibilities for responsible taxonomies within the discourses of native and non-native species as well as developing those which are truly against race. The chapter is an investigation into challenging the usual categories within which racialised populations in Britain are framed and thus metaphorically locked into limited possibilities spatially, socially, culturally and academically. The two communities engaged with in this chapter are examples of diasporic communities in the UK that have complex relationships with the nation as post-colonial citizens of the British Empire and as citizens of many other states and locales. It provides two examples of the particular experiences of cosmopolitanism that is lived within the UK away from the usual sites and situations iterated and privileged in geographical accounts of the cosmopolitan landscape.
