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Mar 21, 2022 · I start out by exploring two major themes within the convivial turn: deconstructive negotiations, and public civilities. Although these approaches differ in important ways, I also explore how they inflect one another and converge around an understanding of conviviality as entailing broad orientations towards a generic ‘other’.
Feb 25, 2022 · ‘Convivality’, however, has perhaps been a victim of its own success, taking on a range of inconsistent, often-contradictory meanings across different usages. Perhaps most significantly, Gilroy and his closer followers frame convivality as ‘a deconstructive practice of interaction’ (Valluvan Citation 2016: 207; c.f.
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Revisiting Gilroy’s After Empire alongside Amin’s recently mooted ethos of ‘indif-ference to difference’, this article explores how conviviality constitutes a more radical ideal of urban interaction than ordinarily appreciated. Based on interviews and observations in two London locations, it is argued that as opposed to being a concept which simply...
Conviviality, Paul Gilroy, indifference to difference, integration, London, multiculture
This article explored how Gilroy’s original formulation of conviviality constitutes a more radical ideal regarding everyday multi-ethnic interaction than ordinarily appre-ciated. As opposed to being a concept which simply names everyday practices of multi-ethnic interaction, conviviality speaks specifically to an ability to invoke dif-ference whils...
explicitly or implicitly, this deconstructive perspective represents a major theme across the convivial turn. This perspective is apparent in Gerd Baumann’s early, landmark study of Southall, London (1996). Baumann contrasts a ‘dominant’ discourse of bounded cultural groups, with a ‘demotic’ discourse of malleable communities.
Apr 10, 2018 · The article concludes that putting conviviality as ‘connective interdependencies’ into dialogue with community as ‘being in common’ develops their sociological and explanatory power and counters the reductions and limitations that are associated with both concepts.
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Mar 21, 2022 · This article begins by unpacking two ‘major’ themes within the convivial turn: the negotiated deconstruction of bounded identities, and the cultivation of public civilities. It suggests that...
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Aug 22, 2018 · In short, we argue for the importance of conviviality not only as the subject of study, but also as a methodological approach. The chapters that follow discuss the challenges, pitfalls and potential gains of such an approach from difer-ent angles, positions and disciplinary approaches.
