PUBLICATIONS
April 1999 Issue
The Geographical Review
April 1999, Vol. 89 (1), pp. 278-289
SPECIAL ISSUE - OCEANS CONNECT
COSMOPOLITICS AND THE MARITIME WORLD CITY
Carolyn Cartier
Keywords: Asia, cosmopolitanism, cultural economy, maritime world cities, South China.
ABSTRACT:
Cosmopolitanism has emerged as a humanistic perspective to express globalizing societal experiences. What are its geographies? World cities are
centers of globalizing processes, and their populations and institutions may share elements of cosmopolitical worldviews. Most world cities have also been ports, yet
in the contemporary global imaginary, many world cities are not readily understood as places of maritime activity, historic or contemporary. Disjunctures in
perceptions of the coastal city-region reflect changes in the world economy and human experiences in modes of travel. This analysis recovers geographical
processes of maritime urban areas as a basis for understanding transhistorical and geographical factors of cosmopolitics in globalizing regions and contemporary
intellectual thought.
Keywords: Asia, cosmopolitanism, cultural economy, maritime world cities, South China.
ABSTRACT:
Cosmopolitanism has emerged as a humanistic perspective to express globalizing societal experiences. What are its geographies? World cities are centers of globalizing processes, and their populations and institutions may share elements of cosmopolitical worldviews. Most world cities have also been ports, yet in the contemporary global imaginary, many world cities are not readily understood as places of maritime activity, historic or contemporary. Disjunctures in perceptions of the coastal city-region reflect changes in the world economy and human experiences in modes of travel. This analysis recovers geographical processes of maritime urban areas as a basis for understanding transhistorical and geographical factors of cosmopolitics in globalizing regions and contemporary intellectual thought.