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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.

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: Springer International Publishing., 2020

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XI, 290 hlm; ill., lamp.,

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English

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9783030289799

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computer

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online resource

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1

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Ethnology
Ethnography
political sociology

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Revives Ivan Illich’s 1973 lens of conviviality, placing it in concert with Paul Gilroy’s 2004 definition of cosmopolitanism and Cohen and Toninato’s 2010 concept of creolization Provides a useful alternative to binary theoretical and practical thinking both within and beyond academia, with relevance for policy implementations

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Oscar Hemer, Maja Povrzanović Frykman, Per-Markku Ristilammi

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https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-28979-9

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28979-9

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