
F. Mermier – Urban Cosmopolitanisms in the Arab World: Contribution in the Theoretical Debates
Franck Mermier, « Urban Cosmopolitanisms in the Arab World: Contribution in the Theoretical Debates », in Catherine Lejeune, Delphine Pagès-El Karoui, Camille Schmoll et Hélène Thiollet (dir.), Migration, Urbanity and Cosmopolitanism in a Globalized World, Cham (Suisse), Springer, 2021, pp. 55-65. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67365-9_5 The notion of cosmopolitanism has been the subject of many definitions and has attracted renewed interest in the context of globalization. Cosmopolitanism, however, in a sociological perspective, has two main meanings. It can refer to the skills of individuals who are able to move between different worlds precisely because of their cosmopolitan cultural capital. It also refers to the ethnic, cultural and religious plurality of cities, some of which may be more cosmopolitan than others. The two seem inseparable since the degree of cosmopolitanism