Silva, Elisabete Mendes2011-04-122011-04-122009Silva, Elisabete (2009). Cosmopolitanism and patriotism: questions of identity, membership and belonging. In Proceedings of the 2008 Conference on Language, Literature and Cultural Policies – Interfaces. Craiova. p. 151-161http://hdl.handle.net/10198/4015Must we choose between cosmopolitanism and patriotism or, as A. Kwame Appiah defends, can we be cosmopolitan patriots or rooted cosmopolitans? This paper’s main purpose is to reflect upon the similarities and differences of cosmopolitanism and patriotism, focussing on the problems of world citizenship and accounting for the role of local identities, nowadays.engCosmopolitanismPatriotismNationalismMulticulturalismMembershipIdentityconference object