Conviviality at the Crossroads The Poetics and Politics of Everyday Encounters
Publication year: 2020
ISBN: 978-3-030-28979-9
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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)
Subject: Social Sciences, Social Anthropology, Ethnography, Ethnology, Political Sociology, communication, migration, social change, cultural practice, osmopolitanism, creolization, migrant crisis, Europe, South Africa
