Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction: When Neighbours Become Strangers
The Unchanging Stranger: A Critical Survey of the Literature
Ulrich Beck: A Perspectival Account of Strangeness
The Global Context: Rethinking Strangers and Neighbours
The 'Cricketing Stranger': The London Bombings and the 'Homegrown Terrorist'
The Cosmopolitan Stranger: A Thesis
Representing the Stranger: Film and Television
Conclusion

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"In this original and highly readable volume, Rumford moves debate beyond the figure of the stranger as an intrusion from outside toward strangeness as a feature of the human condition in an epoch of globalization." - Robert Holton, Trinity College, Dublin, Republic of Ireland

About the Author

Chris Rumford is Professor of Political Sociology and Global Politics at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. He is the author of many books including The European Union: A Political Sociology, Rethinking Europe (with Gerard Delanty), The Sage Handbook of European Studies, Cosmopolitanism and Europe, and Cosmopolitan Spaces: Europe, Globalization, Theory.

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"In this original and highly readable volume, Rumford moves debate beyond the figure of the stranger as an intrusion from outside toward strangeness as a feature of the human condition in an epoch of globalization." - Robert Holton, Trinity College, Dublin, Republic of Ireland