Conviviality at the Crossroads

Oscar Hemer is Professor of Journalistic and Literary Creation at Malmö University, Sweden. His latest publications include the novel Misiones (2014), the co-edited collection In the Aftermath of Gezi: From Social Movement to Social Change? (2017) and the forthcoming book Contaminations and Ethnographic Fictions: Southern Crossings.Maja Povrzanović Frykman is Professor of Ethnology at Malmö University, Sweden. Her recent publications include Sensitive Objects: Affect and Material Culture (2016), Migration, Transnationalism and Development in South-East Europe and the Black Sea Region (2017) and a Swedish-language monograph on on highly skilled migrants in Sweden (2018). Per-Markku Ristilammi is Professor of Ethnology in the Department of Urban Studies at Malmö University, Sweden. His research focuses on the construction of alterity in urban environments, and he has also been engaged in several research projects concerning identity and integration in the transnational Öresund region.

• Chapter 1: Conviviality vis-à-vis Cosmopolitanism and Creolisation:  Probing the concepts.- Chapter 2: Fantasy of conviviality: banalities of multicultural settings and what we do (not) notice when we look at them.- Chapter 3: Creolisation as a Recipe for Conviviality.- Chapter 4: Schleiermacher’s Geselligkeit, Henriette Herz, and the ‘Convivial Turn’.- Chapter 5: Cosmopolitanism as Utopia.- Chapter 6: Creolizing Conviviality: Thinking Relational Ontology and Decolonial Ethics through Ivan Illich and Édouard Glissant.- Chapter 7: A Convivial Journey: From Diversity in Istanbul to Solidarity with Refugees in Denmark.- Chapter 8: Bringing Conviviality into Methods in Media and Migration Studies:.- Chapter 9: Post-2015 Refugees Welcome Initiatives in Sweden: Cosmopolitan Underpinnings.- Chapter 10: The Bridge – Redux: The Breakdown of Normative Conviviality.- Chapter 11: Charting a Convivial Continuum in British Post-War Popular Music 1948-2018.- Chapter 12: Footballers and Conductors: Between Reclusiveness and Conviviality.- Chapter 13: Impurity and Danger. Excerpt from Cape Calypso.- Chapter 15: Seeing Johannesburg Anew: Conviviality and Opacity in Khalo Matabane's Conversations on a Sunday Afternoon.