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An articulation of any kind of global understanding of ethics, or ways of cosmopolitan life, requires a constant engagement with vulnerability, especially in a world that is so deeply wounded by subjugation, colonialisms and genocides. And yet discussion of the body, affect and corporeal politics from the margins are noticeably absent from liberal and Kantian models of cosmopolitan thought. This book explores the ways in which existing narratives of cosmopolitanism are often organized around European and American discourses of human rights and universalism, which allow little room for the articulation of an affective, embodied and subaltern politics. It brings cosmopolitan theory into dialogue with conversations about the body, affect and the condition of colonial difference. It shows that race, ethnicity, sexuality and gender are all extremely important to the discussion around cosmopolitanism, and they are profoundly embodied, affective concepts. Envisioning new ways of articulating and conceptualising a 'corporeal cosmopolitanism' which is neither restricted to a purely postcolonial or subaltern paradigm, nor subject to the European colonialism and modernity, this text challenges the understanding of liberal cosmopolitan solidarities in productive, rather than aggressive ways.