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This book investigates the global hub airport as an exemplar of cosmopolitan culture and space. A machine made for movement, itself perched at the crossroads of the world’s incessant mobility, the airport is both a symbol of and stage for the ways in which we construct and inhabit the world today.Taking an ethnographically-inflected approach, this study brings together knowledge of the moving body from dance and performance and the study of systems of mobility within cultural and mobilities studies, in orderto call attention to the kinaesthetic experience of global space. What is the choreography of the global airport? How does it perform on us. How do we perform within it?Extending thinking about contemporary cosmopolitanism and cultural identity, and the performativity of places and identities, this book is essential reading for those interested in cultural debates around globalisation, the innovative application of performance theory towards everyday experience, and interdisciplinary methodologies.

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Towards a practical cosmopolitanism

Shih Pearson Justine

1-35

Persistent place or thirdspace?

Shih Pearson Justine

37-60

Mass transits, micro transitions

Shih Pearson Justine

61-82

Performing self at the border

Shih Pearson Justine

83-101

Bodies under duress (the dystopic future is here)

Shih Pearson Justine

103-127