Emphasizing or de-emphasizing social boundaries each yields distinct relational possibilities
Evidence
Deconstructive orientations may de-emphasise boundedness, but in doing so they oļ¬er a speciļ¬c ā not a universal ā template for relating; other orientations may put diļ¬erent emphasis on boundaries to open up diļ¬erent possibilities. ā Farhan Samanani, Conviviality and its others, 51
Categorization
- DEEPTHINKING: Quietly undermines the premise that dismantling or deconstructing categories of difference is inherently the most progressive move ā particularism is itself a specific template, not the neutral default. Dense enough to sit with.
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim ā Farhan Samanani, Conviviality and its others: for aā¦, 51
- XREF: connects to: Spatial and epistemic segregation persisted despite intimate daily contact. ā David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections onā¦, 1556
Related
- Specific relational modes offer more analytic traction than generalized conviviality. (similarity 0.83)
- Difference is better studied relationally than as exclusionary categories. (similarity 0.80)
- Racial divisions remain socially powerful even when their conceptual foundations are false (similarity 0.80)
- Difference is relational, embedded in power, and generative. (similarity 0.80)
- Emphasizing ethnic boundaries can reinforce rather than resolve essentialism. (similarity 0.78)