Conviviality’s transformative force lies in stepping beyond bounded identities, not in inhabiting them.

Evidence

These processes of deconstruction or transcendence are framed as meta-practices. They are presented not as practices for shaping specific, bounded identities, or as distinctive ways of being in the world, but as orientations towards continually reworking identity and being, in relation to a diverse and shifting environment. … These approaches acknowledge that fixed notions of identity, feelings of discomfort, processes of closure, and moments of disfluency form part of convivial landscapes. However, they identify the political potential of convivial relations – the thing that gives conviviality its connective or transformative force – as particularly associated with the cultivated capacity to step beyond given and bounded identities. — Farhan Samanani, Conviviality and its others, 27

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies conviviality as a meta-practice of transcendence rather than a specific way of being.
• XREF: Connects to my broader reading on identity politics, hybridity theory and cosmopolitanism debates. — connects to: Articulation links different social structures through their differences, not their identities. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 616; Identity is transformed by political action, not a precondition of it; Diasporic identities are revised and transformed, not fixed in Tradition (+3 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Farhan Samanani, Conviviality and its others: for a…, 27

Related

• Mainstream conviviality theory assumes negotiation dissolves fixed identities (similarity 0.84)
• Convivial relations carry radical openness that undermines fixed and reified identity. (similarity 0.82)
• Transformation happens by assuming shared categories rather than questioning them. (similarity 0.80)
• Specific relational modes offer more analytic traction than generalized conviviality. (similarity 0.79)
• Everyday convivial civility can both preserve difference and transform identities. (similarity 0.79)
• Assuming shared identity permits recognizing differences across experience. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Identity is transformed by political action, not a precondition of it #corroborates (0.80)
• Articulation links different social structures through their differences, not their identities. #corroborates (0.78) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 616
• Diasporic identities are revised and transformed, not fixed in Tradition #corroborates (0.78)
• Group identity is fluid and contextually chosen, not fixed. #corroborates (0.75)
• Cultural identity is a forward-directed production, not a recovery of origins #corroborates (0.75)
• Civilizational identity is fluid, not fixed or walled off #corroborates (0.75) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 232