Even universalist concepts like conviviality silently depend on a Western social imaginary.
Evidence
The convivial turn is best understood as a situated response to these particular scholarly dilemmas, trends, and social conditions. Although the concept has been applied worldwide, its use remains most prominently grounded in ‘western’ (i.e. minorityworld anglophone and West-European) contexts – and, as Nowicka (2020) notes, often tacitly relies on a ‘western social imaginary’. Here, I have tried to flesh out this critique in relation to major themes within the convivial turn, while also exploring a range of minor themes that reach beyond this social imaginary. — Farhan Samanani, Conviviality and its others, 76
Categorization
- QUESTION: What exactly falls within and beyond this ‘western social imaginary’ — and what would a non-western conviviality look like?
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Farhan Samanani, Conviviality and its others: for a…, 76
- XREF: connects to: Everyday language silently preserves superseded worldviews as fossilized metaphors. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1599; Universalising models of conviviality inevitably exclude those who cannot embody them. — Farhan Samanani, Conviviality and its others: for a…, 82; Western modernity is a hegemonic particularism disguised as universalism — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 153 (+1 more)
Broader Connections
- Universalising models of conviviality inevitably exclude those who cannot embody them.
#expands(0.85) — Farhan Samanani, Conviviality and its others, 82 - Western modernity is a hegemonic particularism disguised as universalism
#corroborates(0.85) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 153 - Western thought has treated imagination as fantasy or individual genius, not social
#expands(0.75) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 33 - Everyday language silently preserves superseded worldviews as fossilized metaphors.
#corroborates(0.72) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1599