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Comparing Conviviality

Living with Difference in Casamance and Catalonia

Palgrave Macmillan

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  • Observes that practices of belonging as well as ways of living with difference are fragile constructs that have a serious impact on everyday sociality
  • Includes a wide-ranging and critical review of theoretical and historical literature together with detailed accounts focused on practices of conviviality in public spaces
  • Contains a specific attention to linguistic interaction

Part of the book series: Global Diversities (GLODIV)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxv
  2. Setting the Stage

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Living with Difference Otherwise

      • Tilmann Heil
      Pages 3-50
  3. Observing Conviviality

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 109-109
    2. Everyday Neighbourhood Encounters

      • Tilmann Heil
      Pages 111-150
    3. Staged and Sensuous

      • Tilmann Heil
      Pages 151-192
  4. Challenging Conviviality

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 193-193
    2. Aspiring to Be Modern

      • Tilmann Heil
      Pages 195-231
    3. Power Dynamics in Migration

      • Tilmann Heil
      Pages 233-269
  5. Revisiting Conviviality

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 271-271
    2. Basic Practices of Conviviality

      • Tilmann Heil
      Pages 273-314
  6. Back Matter

    Pages 315-349

About this book

In a world where difference is often seen as a threat or challenge, Comparing Conviviality explores how people actually live in diverse societies. Based on a long-term ethnography of West Africans in both Senegal and Spain, this book proposes that conviviality is a commitment to difference, across ethnicities, languages, religions, and practices.

Heil brings together longstanding histories, political projects, and everyday practices of living with difference. With a focus on neighbourhood life in Casamance, Senegal, and Catalonia, Spain - two equally complex regions - Comparing Conviviality depicts how Senegalese people skillfully negotiate and translate the intricacies of difference and power. In these lived African and European worlds, conviviality is ever temporary and changing. 


This book offers a textured, realist, yet hopeful understanding of difference, social change, power, and respect. It will be invaluable to students and scholars of African, migration, and diversity studies across anthropology, sociology, geography, political sciences, and law. 


Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

    Tilmann Heil

About the author

Tilmann Heil is FWO [PEGASUS]² Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow at KU Leuven, Belgium,and is also affiliated to the National Museum (PPGAS) of the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Comparing Conviviality

  • Book Subtitle: Living with Difference in Casamance and Catalonia

  • Authors: Tilmann Heil

  • Series Title: Global Diversities

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34717-8

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-34716-1Published: 19 June 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-34719-2Published: 20 June 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-34717-8Published: 02 March 2020

  • Series ISSN: 2662-2580

  • Series E-ISSN: 2662-2599

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXV, 349

  • Number of Illustrations: 26 b/w illustrations, 10 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Migration, Ethnicity Studies, Social Anthropology, Social Structure, Social Inequality

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eBook USD 79.99
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Softcover Book USD 99.99
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Hardcover Book USD 99.99
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  • Durable hardcover edition
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