Overview
- Examines the aesthetic and cultural consumption that shapes an individual’s relationship to the world
- Uses the concept of cosmopolitanism to explain ordinary, everyday behaviours
- Proposes a new subjective figure, that of the cosmopolitan amateur
Part of the book series: Consumption and Public Life (CUCO)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
By examining cultural consumption, tastes and imaginaries as a means of relating to the world, this book describes the effects of globalization on young people from an aesthetic and cultural perspective. It employs the concept of aesthetico-cultural cosmopolitanism to analyse the emergence of an aesthetic openness to alterity as a new generational "good taste".
Aesthetico-Cultural Cosmopolitanism and French Youth critically examines the consumption of cultural products and imaginaries that provide genuine insight into social change, particularly in regards to young people, who play the largest role in cultural circulation. This book will be of interest to students and academics across a wide range of readers, including cultural theorists, and students engaged in debates on cultural consumption, the globalization of culture and transnational aesthetic codes.
Reviews
“This excellent book brings together original ideas about globalization and cosmopolitanism in a rich empirical study of the consumption practices of French youth. Because it brings together the sociology of culture with the anthropology of globalization, it will be of great interest to all those who care about the future of transnational cultural practices.” (Arjun Appadurai, New York University, USA)
“Theauthors offer the reader an original and innovative analysis of contemporary global cultural tastes and passions. The fivefold configuration models proposed in this book will undoubtedly become a template to which forthcoming studies will have to confront themselves.” (Stéphane Dufoix, University Paris Nanterre, France)
“Based on an innovative survey revealing young adults’ cultural preferences, this book sheds unexpected light on contemporary forms of appropriation in a world now structured by the international circulation of symbolic goods.” (Jean-Louis Fabiani, Central European University, Hungary)Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Vincenzo Cicchelli is an Associate Professor at the Université Paris Descartes, France and a Research Fellow at GEMASS (CNRS/Paris-Sorbonne), France.
Sylvie Octobre is a Researcher at the Département des études, de la prospective et des statistiques (DEPS) of the French Ministry of Culture, and an Associate Research Fellow at GEMASS (CNRS/Paris-Sorbonne), France.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Aesthetico-Cultural Cosmopolitanism and French Youth
Book Subtitle: The Taste of the World
Authors: Vincenzo Cicchelli, Sylvie Octobre
Series Title: Consumption and Public Life
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66311-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-66310-4Published: 19 March 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-09768-4Published: 04 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-66311-1Published: 28 January 2018
Series ISSN: 2947-8227
Series E-ISSN: 2947-8235
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVII, 405
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sociology of Culture, Cultural Studies, Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging, European Culture, Youth Culture