SDS 405R
Cosmopolitanism and Social Development
Fall 2023
Topics
- Cosmopolitanism and global citizenship
- Multiculturalism and recognition
- Identity
- Racial justice
- Citizenship, borders, and migration
- Indigenous nationhood
- Planetary solidarity and the Anthropocene
Readings
- For Love of Country?
- The Lies That Bind: Rethinking Identity
- BlackLife: Post-BLM and the Struggle for Freedom
- Us and Them? The Dangerous Politics of Immigration Control
- Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition
- Rehearsals for Living
- Nisha Toomey — The Nexus of (Im)mobilities: Hyper, Compelled, and Forced Mobile Subjects (2022).
- Peter Nyers — Abject Cosmopolitanism (2003).
- Charles Taylor — The Politics of Recognition (1994).
- Himani Bannerji — Charles Taylor’s Politics of Recognition: A Critique (2003).
- Dipesh Chakrabarty — The Climate of History: Four Theses (2009).
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- syllabus ↗Fall 2023
- Book entries represent assigned reading selections; the schedule specifies the chapters or sections. Publication years follow the syllabus citations.