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2. Gerard Delanty, “The Cosmopolitan Imagination: Critical Cosmopolitanism and Social Theory,” The British Journal of Sociology, 57 (2006): 25–47.
3. Raka Shome and Radha Hegde, “Postcolonial Approaches to Communication: Charting the Terrain, Engaging the Intersections,” Communication Theory, 12 (2002): 261, 262.
4. Giuliana B. Prato, “Introduction—Beyond Multiculturalism: Anthropology at the Intersections between the Local, the National, and the Global,” in Beyond Multiculturalism: Views from Anthropology, ed. Giuliana B. Prato (Burlington: Ashgate, 2009), 3.
5. For a more detailed critique of the notion of multiculturalism see Miriam Sobré-Denton and Nilanjana Bardhan, Cultivating Cosmopolitanism for Intercultural Communication: Communicating as Global Citizens (New York: Routledge, 2013).