Universalising models of conviviality inevitably exclude those who cannot embody them.
Evidence
The first is that every mode of relating has its others. Every vision of conviviality incorporates a particular theory of what selfhood and connection are or ought to be. There will always be those who cannot easily embody such modes of relating, or who feel that their sense of self or cherished values are diminished by doing so. Taking this seriously requires a move away from theorising universalising models of conviviality towards exploring how different capacities to live with difference might be productively cultivated and expanded from within particular, situated ways of being. — Farhan Samanani, Conviviality and its others, 82
Categorization
- DEEPTHINKING: flagged by the selector, no supporting note recorded
- XREF: Resonates with the ‘every framework has an outside/remainder’ idea and critiques of liberal universalism (e.g. regarding who is relegated to the sphere of non-relatability). — connects to: Even universalist concepts like conviviality silently depend on a Western social imaginary. — Farhan Samanani, Conviviality and its others: for a…, 76; Some strangeness denies the stranger even general human commonality, making the relation a non-relation — Georg Simmel, The Sociology of Georg Simmel, 9648; Civility discourse smuggles in exclusion of those deemed different — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 208 (+3 more)
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Farhan Samanani, Conviviality and its others: for a…, 82
Related
- Specific relational modes offer more analytic traction than generalized conviviality. (similarity 0.82)
- No single characterization of conviviality should define the politics of living with difference. (similarity 0.80)
- Some strangeness denies the stranger even general human commonality, making the relation a non-relation (similarity 0.79)
Broader Connections
- Civility discourse smuggles in exclusion of those deemed different
#exemplifies(0.88) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 208 - Some strangeness denies the stranger even general human commonality, making the relation a non-relation
#corroborates(0.85) — Georg Simmel, The Sociology of Georg Simmel, 9648 - Denying shared humanity creates non-relation rather than strangeness within a group
#corroborates(0.82) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 400 - Bodies are historically constructed, so bodily difference cannot index essential difference.
#complicates(0.80) — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 730 - Spurious universal entities are produced by unrepresentative social institutions
#corroborates(0.78) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 733