Neoliberalism From Above and Cosmopolitanism From Below: A Korean-English Meetup Group in the United States

IF 1.5 3区文学 Q2 COMMUNICATION

Communication Culture & Critique Pub Date : 2020-10-06 DOI:10.1093/ccc/tcaa020

N. Curran

引用次数: 1

Abstract

This article applies theories of cosmopolitanism-from-below A. Appadurai (2011), F. Kurasawa (2004) to an empirical case. Drawing on participant-observation and interviews conducted over the course of 20 months at a Korean-English Meetup group in the United States, this article explores the practices of an explicitly “cosmopolitan” group. Specifically, it focuses on U.S. Americans and Korean interns, and considers their experiences and motivations within the broader structures of neoliberalism. The group is identified as alternately exemplifying and challenging neoliberal logic and the article considers the relationship between neoliberalism and different forms of cosmopolitanism. The cosmopolitan ethos fostered by the group’s founder and reinforced through members’ practice offers preliminary but hopeful evidence of a cosmopolitanism that challenges neoliberalism and the uneven distribution of cultural/economic capital.

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从上而下的新自由主义与从下而下的世界主义:一个在美国的韩英聚会团体

本文将A. Appadurai(2011)、F. Kurasawa(2004)的世界主义理论应用于一个实证案例。本文通过对参与者的观察和在美国一个韩英聚会小组中进行的长达20个月的访谈，探讨了一个明确的“世界性”小组的实践。具体而言，它侧重于美国人和韩国实习生，并在新自由主义的更广泛结构中考虑他们的经历和动机。该团体被认为是新自由主义逻辑的例证和挑战，文章考虑了新自由主义与不同形式的世界主义之间的关系。由该组织创始人培养并通过成员实践得到强化的世界主义精神，为挑战新自由主义和文化/经济资本分配不均的世界主义提供了初步但充满希望的证据。

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