Reimagining Digital Cosmopolitanism: Perspectives from a Postmigrant and Postdigital World - Paperback

by Fergal Lenehan (Editor), Roman Lietz (Editor)

Cosmopolitanism remains a multifaceted, widely-used concept. Cultural theory and empirical research have not remained stagnant, and a number of further theoretical and empirically-based concepts have emerged, not least postdigitality and postmigrancy. The post in these terms does not denote an end, but rather societal transformation due to and interwoven with both digitality and migration. The contributors to this volume call for new perspectives on the concept of cosmopolitanism, in the light of postdigitality and postmigrancy. The contributions reflect on a theoretical and an empirical level the need to reimagine cosmopolitanism for the twenty-first century.

Author Biography

Fergal Lenehan is a researcher at ReDICo: Researching Digital Interculturality Cooperatively, financed by the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research. Originally from Ireland, he received a BA and MA from University College Dublin, a PhD from Universität Leipzig and a Habilitation (the formal postdoctoral qualification) from FriedrichSchillerUniversität Jena. His research focuses on digital interculturality and cosmopolitanism, from a theoretical and internet histories perspective. Roman Lietz has worked as a researcher in the area of intercultural communication at several German universities since 2014 (Karlsruhe, KoblenzLandau, MainzGermersheim). After completing his MA at FriedrichSchillerUniversität Jena, he worked as a project manager in the field of integration in Berlin while completing a PhD at the university in Jena. His research focuses on integration, participation, narrations of identity, social cohesion and digital interculturality.