Comparing Conviviality (eBook)

Foreword 7
Acknowledgements 10
Praise for Comparing Conviviality. Living with Difference in Casamance and Catalonia 13
Contents 14
Abbreviations 17
List of Figures 18
List of Tables 19
Part I: Setting the Stage 20
1: Living with Difference Otherwise 21
Introduction 21
Exploring Ordinary Social Situations 27
Cerdanyola in Mataró, Catalonia 27
Lindiane in Ziguinchor, Casamance 31
Conceptualising Everyday Life Research 35
Practices of Local Everyday Life 35
Configurations, Representations, and Encounters 37
Conviviality 39
Ordinary Cosmopolitanisms and Civility 40
Encounter or Avoidance 41
Power Asymmetries, Hierarchy, and Inequality 43
Synergies of Practices and Spaces of Conviviality 45
Engaging Ethnographically, Comparing Transnationally 47
Mapping the Field and Sources Accessed 49
Adjusting Mutually 52
Outline 55
References 59
2: Configurations, Representations, and Migrations 69
Cohabitation in Casamance 70
Historically Complex Social Configurations 71
Representations of Cohabitation and its Challenges 80
Summary 87
Casamançais Migrations 88
Casamançais Rural-Urban Migrations 88
International Migration from Senegal 90
Casamançais in Catalonia 91
Visiting Home 94
Convivència in Catalonia and Casamançais Reflections 95
Diversification and Difference 96
Catalan Convivència and Migration 101
Casamançais European Imaginations 104
Summary 109
References 110
Part II: Observing Conviviality 126
3: Everyday Neighbourhood Encounters 127
Encounters in Casamance 129
Passing Through the Neighbourhood and Greeting 129
Truncated Multilingualism and Linguae Francae 132
Greeting: Its Substance and Critique 135
‘On the Way’ in Catalonia 140
Greeting in Catalonia 145
Language Choices and Uses 146
Variations in Greeting 149
Transnational Continuities and Local Disruptions in Greeting 152
Inhabiting Open Spaces 154
Spending Time Outdoors in Casamance 154
Jo, lako!—Naa naa, síí!—Viens t’asseoir! [Come, Sit Down!] 154
Carrer Rosselló. A Casamançais Street Scene in Catalonia 157
Involving Everyone: Convivencia and Contestations Over Space 159
The Centrality of Everyday Encounters in Conviviality 162
References 164
4: Staged and Sensuous 167
Two Approaches to Difference 169
Difference in Celebrating Religion 172
Staging Difference, Declaring Equality in Casamance 175
Approaching Change in Catalonia 180
The Liminal in Ethnic Performance 184
ZigFest: Celebrating and Staging Diversity 185
Mostra d’Entitats: Staging Culture 193
Uncontested Culture, Contesting Senses 201
Affirming and Experiencing Conviviality 202
References 205
Part III: Challenging Conviviality 209
5: Aspiring to Be Modern 210
Retreating (from) Conviviality 214
Retreat Into the Private 214
(Im)migrant Encounters 217
Living in Dispute 219
Individual Autonomy 220
Distortions of Europe 221
Chacun pour soi, dieu pour tous 224
Being Stuck. Experiencing the Economic Crisis 228
Homogenisation Contesting Difference 232
Choosing a Language in Casamance 233
Catalan (Language) Politics 237
Embracing Homogenisation 239
Modern Convivial Entanglements 241
References 243
6: Power Dynamics in Migration 247
Living with Migrants 249
Strangers as Guests 250
Immigrants and Hosts 254
Guests, Immigrants, and Conviviality in Casamance 261
Being Migrant Oneself 263
‘As Strangers We Have to Adjust’ 264
Tuteurs: Advice on Everyday Matters 268
Earning Respect 270
L’aventure: être à la recherche 272
Responses to Migrant Marginalisation 275
Containing Migration-Related Inequality 277
References 280
Part IV: Revisiting Conviviality 284
7: Basic Practices of Conviviality 285
Situating the Process of Conviviality 286
Negotiating: Of Differences and Inequalities 289
Festive or Staged Conviviality 291
Everyday Negotiations 293
Linking Inequalities with Differences 295
Interacting: Sine Qua Non for Conviviality 296
Exchanging Greetings and Respect 297
Sensuous Conviviality in Festivities 300
Normative, Reciprocal, and Sensuous Interactions 302
Translating: Of Language and Cultural Difference 303
Multilingualism as Continuous Translation 304
Language Ideologies at Play 307
Phatic Communion and Cultural Translation 309
Multilingualism, Cultural Translation, and Their Negotiation 311
Intermezzo on Practices 312
Conclusion: Conviviality as Process 314
Casamançais in Catalonia 315
Living with Maintained Difference 316
Continuities, Change, and the Challenges of Comparison 318
The Plurality of Casamançais Practices 320
Outlook 322
References 323
Epilogue 327
References 332
Transliteration and Orthography 333
Terminology in a Multilingual Context 335
Glossary 336
Author Index 339
Subject Index 344