The VR funded project Cosmopolitanism from the Margins, lead by Miyase Christensen and hosted by the Division, recently ended. The planned final product of the project was a guest-edited journal special issue “Postnormative Cosmopolitanism: Voice, Space and Politics” for the International Communication Gazette, which can be found here: http://journals.sagepub.com/toc/gazb/79/6-7
The journal includes an article written by Miyase together with doctoral student Tindra Thor, about street art and graffiti in Stockholm and London. The article is based on two case studies and discuss how graffiti and street art provide forms of expressive cosmopolitanism in reclaiming voice and reciprocity in the city.
The purpose of the Cosmopolitanism project was to bring together humanities and social sciences perspectives (from cultural cosmopolitanism, urban studies, visual geopolitics to political economy, queer theory, mediation, etc.) to address various political, social, cultural questions.
– Our conversations in the hallway, in the kitchen, and in gatherings outside the office; our chats over politics, life, media, Stockholm and more! during lunchtime have all been greatly inspiring throughout the life of this project in this international division, says Miyase
The project started in 2012 and ended this year. Miyase will now continue the work with the Division as project member of Arctic governance and the questions of ´fit´ in an era of globally transformative change: a critical geopolitics of regional international cooperation funded by Formas.