Cosmopolitan localism aims to address problems that emerge from globalization-namely, the subsuming of local cultures and economies into a homogenised and unsustainable global system -while simultaneously avoiding the pitfalls of localization, such as parochialism and isolationism. The approach seeks to foster a creative, reciprocal relationship between the local and the global. Ĭosmopolitan localism fosters a global network of mutually supportive communities (neighbourhoods, villages, towns, cities and regions) who share and exchange knowledge, ideas, skills, technology, culture and (where socially and ecologically sustainable) resources. Contrary to glocalisation, cosmolocalism moves from locality to universality, acknowledging the local as the locus of social co-existence and emphasizing the potential of global networking beyond capitalist market rules. Sachs is known as one of the many followers of Ivan Illich and his work has influenced the green and ecological movements. The concept of cosmopolitan localism or cosmolocalism was pioneered by Wolfgang Sachs, a scholar in the field of environment, development, and globalization. Cosmopolitan localism is a social innovation approach to community development that seeks to link local and global communities through resilient infrastructures that bring production and consumption closer together, building on distributed systems.
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