Foregrounding hybridity and fluidity may close off as many practical options as it opens.

Evidence

As Talal Asad (2003, 15) asks pointedly: ‘What practical options are opened up or closed by the notion that the world has no significant binary features, that it is, on the contrary, divided into overlapping, fragmented cultures, hybrid selves, continuously dissolving and emerging social states?’ — Farhan Samanani, Conviviality and its others, 49

Categorization

  • XREF: Connects to the critique in my ‘Complaints About Immodesty’ framing, where supposedly liberatory universal norms carry hidden exclusions — this is a parallel inversion of universality as imposition.
  • corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Farhan Samanani, Conviviality and its others: for a…, 49