'Citizen of nowhere' or 'the point where circles intersect'? Impartialist and embedded cosmopolitanisms?

Erskine, Toni, 'Citizen of nowhere' or 'the point where circles intersect'? Impartialist and embedded cosmopolitanisms', Review of International Studies (2002) 28(3) pp.457-477 RAE2008

Ethical cosmopolitanism is conventionally taken to be a stance that requires an ?impartialist? point of view?a perspective above and beyond all particular ties and loyalties. Taking seriously the claims of those critics who counter that morality must have a ?particularist? starting-point, this article examines the viability of an alternative understanding of cosmopolitanism: ?embedded cosmopolitanism?. Using moral justifications for patriotism as points of contrast, it presents embedded cosmopolitanism as a position that recognises community membership as being morally constitutive, but challenges the common assumption that communities are necessarily bounded and territorially determinate.

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