Gilroy’s conviviality means ease with diversity without reasserting fixed ethnic identities.
Evidence
Conviviality is a concept that is often referenced in contemporary research on multiculture and young adults. But this article maintains that inadequate attention has been given to what I interpret as Gilroy’s specific emphasis on how everyday multicultural practices rest on a radical and complex ability to be at ease in the presence of diversity but without restaging communitarian conceptions of the selfsame ethnic and racial difference. — Sivamohan Valluvan, Conviviality and Multiculture, 8
Categorization
- DEFINE: Refines what Gilroy’s ‘conviviality’ actually denotes in contrast to how researchers commonly cite it.
- XREF: Chimes with the reader’s interest in how difference is received in everyday interaction, echo of The Reluctant Fundamentalist’s scenes of casual multiculture. — connects to: Gilroy’s conviviality concept is contested by critics who doubt race can be transcended. — Amit Singh, “Carnal conviviality” and the end of…, 15; Emphasizing ethnic boundaries can reinforce rather than resolve essentialism.; People can relate well across difference without fully understanding each other. — Farhan Samanani, Conviviality and its others: for a…, 65
- corroborated: 4 independent passages support this claim — Sivamohan Valluvan, Conviviality and Multiculture: A…, 8
Related
- Gilroy’s conviviality concept is contested by critics who doubt race can be transcended. (similarity 0.88)
- Everyday cohabitation differs in kind from multiculturalism’s model of distinct groups. (similarity 0.85)
- People can relate well across difference without fully understanding each other. (similarity 0.81)
- Conviviality loses its political force when equated with everyday multiculture (similarity 0.80)
- Multiculture can operate where ethnic difference escapes normative supervision. (similarity 0.79)
Broader Connections
- Emphasizing ethnic boundaries can reinforce rather than resolve essentialism.
#corroborates(0.75) - People can relate well across difference without fully understanding each other.
#corroborates(0.72) — Farhan Samanani, Conviviality and its others, 65