In this text, Karolina Follis provides a deeply reflexive, firmly-grounded
examination of the figure of the East European female kosmopolitka – a
woman whose globalist aspirations it is all too easy for the now-postcosmopolitan Euro-American intellectual to dismiss as paradoxically
parochial. Critical area studies, Follis’s intervention reminds us, is not
about denying other people’s visions of borderlessness, but about attempting
a substantive self-critique of our own visions.