ABSTRACT
Amongst the diversity of issues and foci featuring in the current efflorescence of interdisciplinary literature on cosmopolitanism, one particularly important distinction stands out as a recurring motif. Specifically, scholars have been concerned to distinguish between cosmopolitanism as a set of mundane practices and/or competences on the one hand and cosmopolitanism as a cultivated form of consciousness or moral aspiration on the other (Beck 2004; Beck and Sznaider 2006; Hannerz 2004; Roudometof 2005; Werbner 2008). While the former may simply reflect people’s daily experiences of and practical adaptations to contemporary global interconnections and mixing, the latter tends to be identified with a more self-conscious awareness of these connections and the moral projects/ aspirations this awareness catalyses.
