Conviviality at the Crossroads

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Conviviality Vis-à-Vis Cosmopolitanism and Creolisation: Probing the Concepts

   • Oscar Hemer, Maja Povrzanović Frykman, Per-Markku Ristilammi

   Pages 1-14Open Access

3. Fantasy of Conviviality: Banalities of Multicultural Settings and What We Do (Not) Notice When We Look at Them

   • Magdalena Nowicka

   Pages 15-42Open Access

4. Creolisation as a Recipe for Conviviality

   • Thomas Hylland Eriksen

   Pages 43-63Open Access

5. Schleiermacher’s Geselligkeit, Henriette Herz, and the ‘Convivial Turn’

   • Ulrike Wagner

   Pages 65-87Open Access

6. Cosmopolitanism as Utopia

   • Rebecka Lettevall

   Pages 89-103Open Access

7. Creolising Conviviality: Thinking Relational Ontology and Decolonial Ethics Through Ivan Illich and Édouard Glissant

   • Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez

   Pages 105-124Open Access

8. A Convivial Journey: From Diversity in Istanbul to Solidarity with Refugees in Denmark

   • Deniz Neriman Duru

   Pages 125-143Open Access

9. Bringing Conviviality into Methods in Media and Migration Studies

   • Erin Cory

   Pages 145-164Open Access

10. Post-2015 Refugees Welcome Initiatives in Sweden: Cosmopolitan Underpinnings

    • Maja Povrzanović Frykman, Fanny Mäkelä

    Pages 165-188Open Access

11. The Bridge: Redux—The Breakdown of Normative Conviviality

    • Per-Markku Ristilammi

    Pages 189-201Open Access

12. Charting a Convivial Continuum in British Post-war Popular Music 1948–2018

    • Hugo Boothby

    Pages 203-225Open Access

13. Footballers and Conductors: Between Reclusiveness and Conviviality

    • Anders Høg Hansen

    Pages 227-245Open Access

14. Impurity and Danger: Excerpt from Cape Calypso

    • Oscar Hemer

    Pages 247-265Open Access

15. Seeing Johannesburg Anew: Conviviality and Opacity in Khalo Matabane’s Conversations on a Sunday Afternoon

    • Kerry Bystrom

    Pages 267-284Open Access

16. Back Matter

    Pages 285-290

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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.

• communication
• migration
• social change
• cultural practice
• cosmopolitanism
• creolization
• migrant crisis
• Europe
• South Africa
• Open Access

'The rise of ultranationalism and racial hatred will not be halted without alternative conceptions of interconnected belonging and mutuality. This exhilarating mix of creative insights and astute commentaries is a massive contribution to the development of that urgently needed vocabulary.'

• Faculty of Culture and Society, School of Arts and Communication, Malmö University, Malmö, Sweden

  Oscar Hemer

• Faculty of Culture and Society, Department of Global Political Studies, Malmö University, Malmö, Sweden

  Maja Povrzanović Frykman

• Faculty of Culture and Society, Department of Urban Studies, Malmö University, Malmö, Sweden

  Per-Markku Ristilammi

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.