capacities for living with difference arise through situated relations, not abstract categories

Evidence

Where state policy and other support services addressed residents of the Caldwell through demographic boxes that framed them as poor, precarious, or minorities, Emma and Jacob created a space where people were able to collaboratively cultivate other modes of address. … Experiences at the café enabled people to open up to Emma in particular about debt; to feel at ease around a particular group of strangers or within a particular atmosphere; to rework identities and values in relation to specific biographies. Importantly, both these general and specific capacities add something to the capacity to live with difference: they transform lives and build connections in distinct and consequential ways. And both capacities are expanded by the work done to weave together different relational possibilities – to stage openness in relation to care, to leave space for opacity within support, to enfold transformation within familiar identities, and so on – meaning that even general orientations incorporate a specific, situated dimension. — Farhan Samanani, Conviviality and its others, 72

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the addendum article ‘Complaints About Immodesty Go Way Back’ on how moralized categories function as class/identity markers — here state categories (‘poor, minority’) are replaced by situated relational modes. — connects to: Difference is a situational phenomenon with directionality and perspectivism; Identity is constituted through relation to what is other and different from itself — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 378; Convivial relations can build deep understanding without assuming full translatability — Farhan Samanani, Conviviality and its others: for a…, 53 (+5 more)
• DEEPTHINKING: The claim that general orientations toward openness are actually built from specific, situated relationships — not the reverse — resists the common assumption that abstract tolerance precedes concrete encounters.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Farhan Samanani, Conviviality and its others: for a…, 72

Related

• Everyday convivial civility can both preserve difference and transform identities. (similarity 0.81)
• Convivial relations can build deep understanding without assuming full translatability (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Convivial relations can build deep understanding without assuming full translatability #corroborates (0.88) — Farhan Samanani, Conviviality and its others, 53
• Categorical abstraction suspends the ethical rules of personal interaction #expands (0.80)
• Identity is constituted through relation to what is other and different from itself #corroborates (0.75) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 378
• Difference is a situational phenomenon with directionality and perspectivism #qualifies (0.70)