Conviviality at the Crossroads : : The Poetics and Politics of Everyday Encounters.

• Author: Hemer, Oscar.
• TeilnehmendeR: Povrzanović Frykman, Maja.; Ristilammi, Per-Markku.
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2019.; ©2020.
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (293 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- List of Figures -- 1 Conviviality Vis-à-Vis Cosmopolitanism and Creolisation: Probing the Concepts -- References -- 2 Fantasy of Conviviality: Banalities of Multicultural Settings and What We Do (Not) Notice When We Look at Them -- Introduction -- (Western Modern) Social Imaginary -- Re-reading the Convivial Fantasy with Heuristic of (Western Modern) Social Imaginary -- Conviviality as Courtesy -- Conviviality as Civility -- Conviviality as Collaboration -- Conviviality Among Social Individuals -- What We Cannot See and How Could We Be Otherwise -- References -- 3 Creolisation as a Recipe for Conviviality -- Celebrating Impurity -- What Is and What Isn't Creole -- Excursus on Super-Diversity as Creolisation's Offspring -- Creole Lessons from the Indian Ocean -- References -- 4 Schleiermacher's Geselligkeit, Henriette Herz, and the 'Convivial Turn' -- References -- 5 Cosmopolitanism as Utopia -- Cosmopolitanism and Its Critics -- Utopia as a Critical Method -- Kant's Implicit Utopia and Cosmopolitanism -- Cosmopolitanism as Utopia? -- References -- 6 Creolising Conviviality: Thinking Relational Ontology and Decolonial Ethics Through Ivan Illich and Édouard Glissant -- Introduction -- Conviviality: On Relational Ontology -- Countering Spanish Fascism: "Convivencia" -- Tools for Conviviality: Material Underpinnings and the Common Good -- Convivial Culture: Practices of a Living Together -- Creolising Conviviality -- Transversal Conviviality in the Private Household -- Conclusion: Decolonial Ethics of Conviviality -- References -- 7 A Convivial Journey: From Diversity in Istanbul to Solidarity with Refugees in Denmark -- Introduction -- Part 1: Diversity in Istanbul -- Pre-fieldwork Literature Review -- Post-fieldwork Analysis: Conceptualising Conviviality.

Part 2: Convivial Solidarity with Refugees in Denmark -- Research Design and Methods -- Danish Context: In Between Civic Initiatives of Solidarity and Hostility Towards the Refugees -- Convivial Solidarity as a Concept -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- 8 Bringing Conviviality into Methods in Media and Migration Studies -- Introduction -- Media, Mediation, and Migration: State of the Field -- Conviviality and/in the Danish Context -- Conviviality: Empirical, Analytical, Methodological? -- Situating Trampoline House -- Conviviality as an Ethical Position -- Conviviality as Co-production -- Conviviality and Conflict -- Conclusion -- References -- 9 Post-2015 Refugees Welcome Initiatives in Sweden: Cosmopolitan Underpinnings -- Introduction: Moral and Political Dimensions of Cosmopolitanism -- Background -- Former Research -- The Material -- Specificities of the Swedish Context-And Its Changes -- Cosmopolitan Values, Moral Obligation -- Recognising Difference, Recognising Agency -- Relation to Institutions: Integrative vs. Transformative Role? -- Conclusion -- References -- 10 The Bridge: Redux-The Breakdown of Normative Conviviality -- Before: The Convivial Border Region3 -- Liquid Modernity and the Formless State -- Now -- States of the State in the Öresund Region -- The Bridge as an Abjective Infrastructure -- References -- 11 Charting a Convivial Continuum in British Post-war Popular Music 1948-2018 -- Conviviality -- Convivial Continuum Playlist -- Playlist Track 1: 'Has It Come to This' The Streets (2002) -- Creolisation -- Playlist Track 2: 'London Is the Place for Me' Lord Kitchener (2002 [1948]) -- Reggae -- Playlist Track 3: 'Silly Games' Janet Kay (1979) -- Playlist Track 4: 'Newtown' The Slits (1979) -- Creolisation and the Work of Conviviality -- Playlist Track 5: 'Steadie' by Blackbeard (1980) -- Jungle.

Playlist Track 6: 'Original Nuttah' Shy FX Featuring UK Apache (1994) -- Conviviality Within Corporeal Affect -- Playlist Track 7: 'Distant Lights' by Burial (2006) -- Hauntology -- Playlist Track 8: 'Stop Killing the Mandem' by Novelist (2018) -- Conclusion -- References -- 12 Footballers and Conductors: Between Reclusiveness and Conviviality -- Introduction: Historic Occasions-A Football Match and a Human Exhibition -- Living Beyond and Within Race-Reclusive Openness, Opacity, Conviviality -- The White Choir-Victor in Nakskov -- Black and White -- Deflection and Break-Away Individuals -- Play the Game Wilfully-And Playfully -- High Exposure and 'The Stopping Down' of Aperture -- Ending Notes -- References -- 13 Impurity and Danger: Excerpt from Cape Calypso -- References -- 14 Seeing Johannesburg Anew: Conviviality and Opacity in Khalo Matabane's Conversations on a Sunday Afternoon -- References -- Index.