%0 Journal Article
%T Grenz¨¹berschreitungen. Eine biographische Ann herung
%A Paloma Gay y Blasco
%J Behemoth : a Journal on Civilisation
%D 2011
%I University of Freiburg
%X In this paper I concentrate on cosmopolitanism¡¯s  protean quality¡¯ (Hannerz), its elusiveness andflexibility both as analytical tool and as experience. I explore the life of Agata Gonz¨¢les, a Gitano(Gypsy/Roma) woman from Madrid, tracing the emergence of a cosmospolitan subjectivity. In thisethnographic context, cosmopolitanism appears and disappears from view; changes in character,intensity and effect; and is at some times an ideal, even a day-dream, and at others an unavoidableand fully practical way of dealing with the world. The paper demonstrates the potential fragility ofborder-crossing orientations and argues the need to acknowledge the anti-heroic qualities of emergentcosmopolitan subjectivities.
%K antiheroic cosmopolitanism
%K gender
%K life-history
%K subjectivity
%K Gypsies/Roma Antiheroischer Kosmopolitanismus
%K Gender
%K Lebensgeschichte
%K Subjektivit t
%K Zigeuner/Roma
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