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Cosmopolitan Borders makes the case for processes of bordering being better understood through the lens of cosmopolitanism. Borders are ´cosmopolitan workshops´ where ´cultural encounters of a cosmopolitan kind´ take place and where entrepreneurial cosmopolitans advance new forms of sociality in the face of ´global closure´.

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1. Introduction 2. Citizen Vernacular: the Case of Borderwork 3. ´Seeing Like a Border´: Towards Multiperspectivalim 4. Fixity/Unfixity 5. Connectivites: Monumentalizing Borders 6. Concluding Comments

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Chris Rumford is Professor of Political Sociology and Global Politics at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. He is the author of The Globalization of Strangeness, Cricket and Globalization (co-edited with Steve Wagg), Cosmopolitan Spaces and Rethinking Europe (with Gerard Delanty).

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