Convivial relations carry radical openness that undermines fixed and reified identity.
Evidence
Thus, for Gilroy, convivial relations are ‘alive’ with a ‘radical openness that […] makes a nonsense of closed, fixed, and reified identity and turns attention toward the always-unpredictable mechanisms of identification.’ (2004, xi). — Farhan Samanani, Conviviality and its others, 23
Categorization
- XREF: Gilroy’s emancipatory hopefulness about ordinary cohabitation echoes across ‘The Reluctant Fundamentalist’ themes of identity fluidity under pressure. — connects to: Identity is constructed through opposition to a continuously reinterpreted other; Without destruction of prior form, identity cannot sustain itself. — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 245; Mainstream conviviality theory assumes negotiation dissolves fixed identities — Farhan Samanani, Conviviality and its others: for a…, 21 (+4 more)
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Farhan Samanani, Conviviality and its others: for a…, 23
Related
- Mainstream conviviality theory assumes negotiation dissolves fixed identities (similarity 0.83)
- Conviviality’s transformative force lies in stepping beyond bounded identities, not in inhabiting them. (similarity 0.82)
- Specific relational modes offer more analytic traction than generalized conviviality. (similarity 0.79)
- Assuming shared identity permits recognizing differences across experience. (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Identity is constructed through opposition to a continuously reinterpreted other
#corroborates(0.85) - Mainstream conviviality theory assumes negotiation dissolves fixed identities
#responds-to(0.80) — Farhan Samanani, Conviviality and its others, 21 - Without destruction of prior form, identity cannot sustain itself.
#complicates(0.75) — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 245 - Individual identity forms dialogically through a constitutive outside, not autonomously.
#contradicts(0.72) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 363 - Group identity is malleable and its salience can shift.
#expands(0.70)