Comparing Conviviality

Author : Tilmann Heil
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030347178

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Comparing Conviviality by Tilmann Heil Pdf

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.

Author : Luciane Scarato,Fernando Baldraia,Maya Manzi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-30
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781000093360

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Convivial Constellations in Latin America by Luciane Scarato,Fernando Baldraia,Maya Manzi Pdf

Drawing on diverse theoretical perspectives on conviviality, this book considers the ways in which Latin America, a continent marked by deep inequalities, has managed to afford, create, sustain, and contest forms of living together with difference across time and space. Interdisciplinary in approach and presenting studies from various nations across the continent – from the medieval period to the present day – it considers the ways in which Latin America might contribute to our understanding of the relationship between inequality, difference, diversity, and sociability. As such, it will appeal to scholars of history, sociology, geography, anthropology, development studies, postcolonial and social theory with interests in Latin American studies, and in the contingencies and contradictions of living together in profoundly unequal societies.

Author : Fran Meissner,Steven Vertovec
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317418283

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Comparing Super-Diversity by Fran Meissner,Steven Vertovec Pdf

The concept of ‘super-diversity’ has received considerable attention since it was introduced in Ethnic and Racial Studies in 2007, reflecting a broadening interest in finding new ways to talk about contemporary social complexity. This book brings together a collection of essays which empirically and theoretically examine super-diversity and the multi-dimensional shifts in migration patterns to which the notion refers. These shifts entail a worldwide diversification of migration channels, differentiations of legal statuses, diverging patterns of gender and age, and variance in migrants’ human capital. Across the contributions, super-diversity is subject to two modes of comparison: (a) side-by-side studies contrasting different places and emergent conditions of super-diversity; and (b) juxtaposed arguments that have differentially found use in utilizing or criticizing ‘super-diversity’ descriptively, methodologically or with reference to policy and public practice. The contributions discuss super-diversity and its implications in nine cities located in eight countries and four continents. This book was originally published as a special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies.

Author : Mette Louise Berg,Magdalena Nowicka
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781787354784

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Studying Diversity, Migration and Urban Multiculture by Mette Louise Berg,Magdalena Nowicka Pdf

Anti-migrant populism is on the rise across Europe, and diversity and multiculturalism are increasingly presented as threats to social cohesion. Yet diversity is also a mundane social reality in urban neighbourhoods. With this in mind, Studying Diversity, Migration and Urban Multiculture explores how we can live together with and in difference. What is needed for conviviality to emerge and what role can research play? This volume demonstrates how collaboration between scholars, civil society and practitioners can help to answer these questions. Drawing on a range of innovative and participatory methods, each chapter examines conviviality in different cities across the UK. The contributors ask how the research process itself can be made more convivial, and show how power relations between researchers, those researched, and research users can be reconfigured – in the process producing much needed new knowledge and understanding about urban diversity, multiculturalism and conviviality. Examples include embroidery workshops with diverse faith communities, arts work with child language brokers in schools, and life story and walking methods with refugees. Studying Diversity, Migration and Urban Multiculture is interdisciplinary in scope and includes contributions from sociologists, anthropologists and social psychologists, as well as chapters by practitioners and activists. It provides fresh perspectives on methodological debates in qualitative social research, and will be of interest to scholars, students, practitioners, activists, and policymakers who work on migration, urban diversity, conviviality and conflict, and integration and cohesion.

Author : Neil Thin
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781788976466

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A Research Agenda for Social Wellbeing by Neil Thin Pdf

This Research Agenda for Social Wellbeing introduces scholars and planners to the importance of a ‘wellbeing lens’ for the study and promotion of social flourishing. It demonstrates the importance of wellbeing as a public good, not just a property of individuals.

Author : Oscar Hemer,Maja Povrzanović Frykman,Per-Markku Ristilammi
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030289799

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Conviviality at the Crossroads by Oscar Hemer,Maja Povrzanović Frykman,Per-Markku Ristilammi Pdf

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.

Author : Steven Vertovec
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135049423

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Superdiversity by Steven Vertovec Pdf

Superdiversity explores processes of diversification and the complex, emergent social configurations that now supersede prior forms of diversity in societies around the world. Migration plays a key role in these processes, bringing changes not just in social, cultural, religious, and linguistic phenomena, but also in the ways that these phenomena combine with others like gender, age, and legal status. The concept of superdiversity has been adopted by scholars across the social sciences in order to address a variety of forms, modes, and outcomes of diversification. Central to this field is the relationship between social categorization and social organization, including stratification and inequality. Increasingly complex categories of social “difference” have significant impacts across scales, from entire societies to individual identities. While diversification is often met with simplifying stereotypes, threat narratives, and expressions of antagonism, superdiversity encourages a perspective on difference as comprising multiple social processes, flexible collective meanings, and overlapping personal and group identities. A superdiversity approach encourages the re-evaluation and recognition of social categories as multidimensional, unfixed, and porous as opposed to views based on hardened, one-dimensional thinking about groups. Diversification and increasing social complexity are bound to continue, if not intensify, in light of climate change. This will have profound impacts on the nature of global migration, social relations, and inequalities. Superdiversity presents a convincing case for recognizing new social formations created by changing migration patterns and calls for a re-thinking of public policy and social scientific approaches to social difference. This introduction to the multidisciplinary concept of superdiversity will be of considerable interest to students and researchers in a range of fields in the humanities and social sciences. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Author : Tina Steiner
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000418088

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Convivial Worlds by Tina Steiner Pdf

This book discovers everyday forms of conviviality in fiction and life writing from Eastern and Southern Africa. It focuses on ordinary moments of recognition, of hospitality, of humour and kindness in everyday life to illuminate the significance of repertoires of repair in a world broken by relations of power. Through close readings of specific capacities of living with difference, the book excavates ideas of world-making, personhood and the possibilities of alternative social imaginaries from African perspectives. It highlights evanescent and more durable attempts at building solidarity across local and translocal settings by focussing on modes of address that invite reciprocity in contexts of injustice, which include Apartheid, colonialism, racism, patriarchy and xenophobia. Putting current research on conviviality in conversation with the literary texts, the book demonstrates how conviviality emerges as an enabling ethical practice, as critique and survival strategy and as embodied lived experience. The volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of Literary and Cultural Studies, especially Postcolonial Literature, African Studies and Indian Ocean Studies.

Author : Ivan Illich
Publisher : Marion Boyars Publishers
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1842300113

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Tools for Conviviality by Ivan Illich Pdf

Ivan Illich argues for individual personal control over life, the tools and energy we use. A work of seminal importance. The conviviality for which noted social philosopher Ivan Illich is arguing is one in which the individual's personal energies are under direct personal control and in which the use of tools is responsibly limited. A work of seminal importance, this book claims our attention for the urgency of its appeal, the stunning clarity of its logic and the overwhelmingly human note that it sounds.

Author : Alina Rzepnikowska
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351233538

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Convivial Cultures in Multicultural Cities by Alina Rzepnikowska Pdf

The large-scale migration brought about by the expansion of the EU over a decade ago led to migration from less ethnically diverse countries to multicultural and super-diverse societies. This book examines the complex encounters between Polish migrant women and local populations in Manchester and Barcelona, with attention to the ways in which difference is negotiated and managed through everyday practices of conviviality, which help to overcome hierarchies and create elements of sameness. Illustrating how cultural differences may become important resources for interaction that facilitates positive relationships, Convivial Cultures in Multicultural Cities draws on the narratives of Polish migrant women to shed new light on everyday social relations between migrant women and local populations, including settled ethnic minorities and other migrants. In doing so, it contributes to our understanding of the positional nature of racial identification and complicates our ideas of whiteness and privilege.

Author : Manuel Jorge Rodrigues Couceiro da Costa,Filipa Roseta,Susana Couceiro da Costa,Joana Pestana Lages
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 1387 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-19
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781351647588

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Architectural Research Addressing Societal Challenges Volume 1 by Manuel Jorge Rodrigues Couceiro da Costa,Filipa Roseta,Susana Couceiro da Costa,Joana Pestana Lages Pdf

The EAAE/ARCC International Conference, held under the aegis of the EAAE (European Association for Architectural Education) and of the ARCC (Architectural Research Centers Consortium), is a conference organized every other year, in collaboration with one of the member schools / universities of those associations, alternatively in North America or in Europe. The EAAE/ARCC Conferences began at the North Carolina State University College of Design, Raleigh with a conference on Research in Design Education (1998); followed by conferences in Paris (2000), Montreal (2002), Dublin (2004), Philadelphia (2006), Copenhagen (2008), Washington (2010), Milan (2012) and Honolulu (2014). The conference discussions focus on research experiences in the field of architecture and architectural education, providing a critical forum for the dissemination and engagement of current ideas from around the world.

Author : Frank Adloff,Alain Caillé
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783732856640

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Convivial Futures by Frank Adloff,Alain Caillé Pdf

What steps are needed to make life better and more convivial? The Second Convivialist Manifesto (2020) has presented a short diagnosis of the current crises and sketches of a possible and desirable future. It has been a necessary work of theoretical synthesis, but preserving a viable world also requires passion. It is thus urgent to show what people would gain from a shift to a post-neoliberal and post-growth convivialist future. This volume includes a theoretical debate on convivialism which reflects dystopias and shows the multiple and major obstacles that convivialism will have to face. Mainly, however, the contributors to this volume create sketches of a convivial future and collect accounts of another future world which is attractive for as many as possible.

Author : Christopher C. Boyle
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476686264

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Lowcountry Agricultural and Convivial Societies by Christopher C. Boyle Pdf

By the Antebellum period, rice had dominated the local economic, political, and social patterns of South Carolina's Lowcountry for nearly two hundred years. This book explores the purpose of the social organizations as well as the moral, economic, cultural, and political challenges of the Georgetown rice planters. Within the protected confines of their organizations, planters felt safe discussing local and national politics, advancements to their educational system, and agricultural and livestock improvements to better compete with the Industrial North. The alliance of "brothers of the soil" helped solidify South Carolina's Lowcountry politically. The agricultural alliances of the region promoted Southern Nationalism and provided one pillar for Southerners to the American Civil War.

Author : Ivan Illich
Publisher : Marion Boyars Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Economic development
ISBN : 0714509744

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Tools for Conviviality by Ivan Illich Pdf

Author : Curtis Andrew Dozier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:C3483925

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Education, Conviviality, and the Formation of Roman Readers by Curtis Andrew Dozier Pdf