Overview
- 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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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.
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.
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Setting the Stage
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Observing Conviviality
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Challenging Conviviality
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Revisiting Conviviality
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
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