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Local Cosmopolitanism and Governance

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In this chapter, we bring back the comparison with Trieste, Odessa and Tbilisi, confront this with our initial theoretical frame, and take stock of its development. We discuss the image of local cosmopolitanism and its local construction we obtained after our investigations, and what this image means for a general perspective on globalization. Zooming in, we then return to the question of policy relevance: what can our analysis tell us about the implications of cosmopolitanism for policy, how and why should policy and planning envision a cosmopolitan future or past, what are the possibilities and limits of steering in this.

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  1. Faculty of Extension, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

    Kristof Van Assche

  2. Faculty of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences, Babes Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

    Petruţa Teampău

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Van Assche, K., Teampău, P. (2015). Local Cosmopolitanism and Governance. In: Local Cosmopolitanism. SpringerBriefs in Geography. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19030-3_9

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