Rami Nashashibi. Ghetto cosmopolitanism. Making theory at the margins

Abstract

This text is a synopsis of the article “Ghetto cosmopolitanism. Making theory at the margins by Rami Nashashibi, witch was published in the book “Deciphering the Global: Its Spaces, Scalings and Subjects”, edited by Saskia Sassen. In that article author shows, by the example of postindustrial American slum ghetto, how ghetto becomes cosmopolitan, through the spreading of Islam and hip-hop culture.