Conviviality at the Crossroads :The Poetics and Politics of Everyday Encounters
Conviviality has lately become a catchword not only in academia but also among political activists. This open access book discusses conviviality in relation to the adjoining concepts cosmopolitanism and creolisation. The urgency of today’s global predicament is not only an argument for the revival of all three concepts, but also a reason to bring them into dialogue. Ivan Illich envisioned a post-industrial convivial society of ‘autonomous individuals and primary groups’ (Illich 1973), which resembles present-day manifestations of ‘convivialism’. Paul Gilroy refashioned conviviality as a substitute for cosmopolitanism, denoting an ability to be ‘at ease’ in contexts of diversity (Gilroy 2004). Rather than replacing one concept with the other, the fourteen contributors to this book seek to explore the interconnections – commonalities and differences – between them, suggesting that creolisation is a necessary complement to the already-intertwined concepts of conviviality and cosmopolitanism. Although this volume takes northern Europe as its focus, the contributors take care to put each situation in historical and global contexts in the interests of moving beyond the binary thinking that prevails in terms of methodologies, analytical concepts, and political implementations.Conviviality has lately become a catchword not only in academia but also among political activists. This open access book discusses conviviality in relation to the adjoining concepts cosmopolitanism and creolisation. The urgency of today’s global predicament is not only an argument for the revival of all three concepts, but also a reason to bring them into dialogue. Ivan Illich envisioned a post-industrial convivial society of ‘autonomous individuals and primary groups’ (Illich 1973), which resembles present-day manifestations of ‘convivialism’. Paul Gilroy refashioned conviviality as a substitute for cosmopolitanism, denoting an ability to be ‘at ease’ in contexts of diversity (Gilroy 2004). Rather than replacing one concept with the other, the fourteen contributors to this book seek to explore the interconnections – commonalities and differences – between them, suggesting that creolisation is a necessary complement to the already-intertwined concepts of conviviality and cosmopolitanism. Although this volume takes northern Europe as its focus, the contributors take care to put each situation in historical and global contexts in the interests of moving beyond the binary thinking that prevails in terms of methodologies, analytical concepts, and political implementations.
Book Format
Free
Reviews
Rating Snapshot
Select a row below to filter reviews.
0
0
0
0
0
0
Overall
Average Customer Ratings
Review for this Book
Share your thoughts with other readers
More Information
Description of Conviviality at the Crossroads :The Poetics and Politics of Everyday Encounters
Conviviality has lately become a catchword not only in academia but also among political activists. This open access book discusses conviviality in relation to the adjoining concepts cosmopolitanism a
Additional Information
About the authors
Professor of Journalistic and Literary Crearion. Dr. Philos. in Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo (2011) on the dissertation "Fiction and Truth in Transition : Writing the present past in South Africa and Argentina" (Lit Verlag, 2012). Writer of several novels and with a twenty year experience as an arts journalist and editor. He was the initiator of the one-year Master program "Communication for Development" and its coordinator from the inception in 2000 to 2014. His latest own works are the novel Misiones (2014), which finalizes his Argentina Trilogy (Cosmos Aska, 2000; Santiago 2007), and the the experimental literary anthropology monograph Contaminations & Ethnographic Fictions: Southern Crossings (Palgrave Macmillan 2020). The latter is the result of a largely self-financed research project on racialisation and creolisation in South Africa, which he started as a visiting research fellow at Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS) in 2015. In parallel with his own research, Hemer has lately been the coordinator of the research network Conviviality at the Crossroads, a collaboration between Malmö University and Bard College Berlin. The network has produced an open source anthology by the same title (Palgrave Macmillan 2020), co-edited with his MAU colleagues Maja Povrzanovic Frykman and Per-Markku Ristilammi. The network is now part of the research platform Rethinking Democracy (REDEM), for which Hemer is one of the coordinators. He is also a literary translator (from Spanish) and co-editor, with Lasse Söderberg, of the collected works in Swedish of Jorge Luis Borges (three volumes, 2017, 2019 and 2020).
Osar Hemer ( editor)
Professor of Ethnology, teaches in Peace and Conflict Studies Programme at the Department of Global Political Studies (GPS) as well as in the PhD programme at the Dept. of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Zagreb. Responsible for PhD programmes at GPS. PhD supervisor at Lund, Linköping, Zagreb and Malmö University. Main areas of research: migration; highly skilled migrants; concepts and practices within the semantic domains of diaspora and transnationalism; labour- and refugee-migrants from Croatia and Bosnia-Hercegovina; narratives on exile experiences; war-related identification processes; ethnicity and place; affect and material culture. A summary of Povrzanovic Frykman's research on materiality and migration is available from https://homing.soc.unitn.it/2020/01/21/homing-interview-35-maja-povrzanovic-frykman/
Maja Povrzanović Frykman ( editor)
Per-Markku Ristilammi received his PhD in Ethnology 1994 from Lund University with a dissertation titled Rosengård och den svarta Poesin. En studie av modern annorlundahet (Rosengård and the Black Poetry. A study of Modern Alterity) that dealt with the construction of alterity in the city. From 1999 and onwards Ristilammi has been engaged in several research projects concerning integration in the Öresund region. Ristilammi has been Research Fellow at the Department of European Ethnology at Lund University and external Assist. Prof at the department of Ethnology at the University of Copenhagen. Spring 1999 he was resident Fellow at SCASSS (The Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences) in Uppsala. From 1999 and onwards he has occupied several different positions at Malmö University. He is currently Professor in Ethnology at the department of Urban studies. He is also affiliated to IMH (Institute for Studies in Malmö’s History)
Per-Markku Ristilammi ( editor)
Table of content
Recommended Books
Based on the books you like and read
