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.
Author(s): Oscar Hemer, Maja Povrzanović Frykman, Per-Markku Ristilammi
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2020
Language: English
Pages: 293
Tags: Social Anthropology
Front Matter ....Pages i-xi
Conviviality Vis-à-Vis Cosmopolitanism and Creolisation: Probing the Concepts (Oscar Hemer, Maja Povrzanović Frykman, Per-Markku Ristilammi)....Pages 1-14
Fantasy of Conviviality: Banalities of Multicultural Settings and What We Do (Not) Notice When We Look at Them (Magdalena Nowicka)....Pages 15-42
Creolisation as a Recipe for Conviviality (Thomas Hylland Eriksen)....Pages 43-63
Schleiermacher’s Geselligkeit, Henriette Herz, and the ‘Convivial Turn’ (Ulrike Wagner)....Pages 65-87
Cosmopolitanism as Utopia (Rebecka Lettevall)....Pages 89-103
Creolising Conviviality: Thinking Relational Ontology and Decolonial Ethics Through Ivan Illich and Édouard Glissant (Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez)....Pages 105-124
A Convivial Journey: From Diversity in Istanbul to Solidarity with Refugees in Denmark (Deniz Neriman Duru)....Pages 125-143
Bringing Conviviality into Methods in Media and Migration Studies (Erin Cory)....Pages 145-164
Post-2015 Refugees Welcome Initiatives in Sweden: Cosmopolitan Underpinnings (Maja Povrzanović Frykman, Fanny Mäkelä)....Pages 165-188
The Bridge: Redux—The Breakdown of Normative Conviviality (Per-Markku Ristilammi)....Pages 189-201
Charting a Convivial Continuum in British Post-war Popular Music 1948–2018 (Hugo Boothby)....Pages 203-225
Footballers and Conductors: Between Reclusiveness and Conviviality (Anders Høg Hansen)....Pages 227-245
Impurity and Danger: Excerpt from Cape Calypso (Oscar Hemer)....Pages 247-265
Seeing Johannesburg Anew: Conviviality and Opacity in Khalo Matabane’s Conversations on a Sunday Afternoon (Kerry Bystrom)....Pages 267-284
Back Matter ....Pages 285-290
