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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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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
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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Editors and Affiliations
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Faculty of Culture and Society, School of Arts and Communication, Malmö University, Malmö, Sweden
Oscar Hemer
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Faculty of Culture and Society, Department of Global Political Studies, Malmö University, Malmö, Sweden
Maja Povrzanović Frykman
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Faculty of Culture and Society, Department of Urban Studies, Malmö University, Malmö, Sweden
Per-Markku Ristilammi
About the editors
Oscar Hemer is Professor of Journalistic and Literary Creation at Malmö University, Sweden. His latest publications include the novel Misiones (2014), the co-edited collection In the Aftermath of Gezi: From Social Movement to Social Change? (2017) and the forthcoming book Contaminations and Ethnographic Fictions: Southern Crossings.
Maja Povrzanović Frykman is Professor of Ethnology at Malmö University, Sweden. Her recent publications include Sensitive Objects: Affect and Material Culture (2016), Migration, Transnationalism and Development in South-East Europe and the Black Sea Region (2017) and a Swedish-language monograph on on highly skilled migrants in Sweden (2018).
Per-Markku Ristilammi is Professor of Ethnology in the Department of Urban Studies at Malmö University, Sweden. His research focuses on the construction of alterity in urban environments, and he has also been engaged in several research projects concerning identity and integration in the transnational Öresund region.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Conviviality at the Crossroads
Book Subtitle: The Poetics and Politics of Everyday Encounters
Editors: Oscar Hemer, Maja Povrzanović Frykman, Per-Markku Ristilammi
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28979-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-28978-2Published: 06 December 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-28981-2Published: 11 September 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-28979-9Published: 25 November 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 290
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Social Anthropology, Ethnography, Ethnology, Political Sociology