Abstract
Debates about globalization have been accompanied by considerable critical assessment of the notion of cosmopolitanism. The upsurge in travel, trade, communication, and resettlement among non-elite individuals and groups has raised questions about the nature and form of ‘bottom-up’ or ‘vernacular’ cosmopolitanism. This article explores the ways in which the experiences of a group of young people (12–15 years of age) in south-western Sydney contribute to shared practices of membership in a culturally differentiated society. On one level, these young people display a de facto vernacular cosmopolitanism through familial experiences of migration. However, the article shows how these young people often move within socially and culturally bounded communities defined by ethnicity, language, socio-economic status, shaped by desires for safety, support and belonging, and maintained by propinquity, religion and the persistence of traditional expectations and patterns around gender and inter-marriage. Copyright © 2014 The Author(s).
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 83-98 |
| Journal | Journal of Sociology |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| Early online date | Nov 2011 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Jun 2014 |
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cosmopolitanism
kinship
Religion
resettlement
persistence
experience
ethnicity
Group
marriage
travel
globalization
migration
communication
gender
language
community
economics
Citation
Turner, B. S., Halse, C., & Sriprakash, A. (2014). Cosmopolitanism: Religion and kinship among young people in south-western Sydney. Journal of Sociology, 50(2), 83-98. doi: 10.1177/1440783311419052Keywords
- Cosmopolitanism
- Family
- Multiculturalism
- Religion
- Youth cultures