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SUMMARY:CoDE Seminar: Conviviality at/from the border
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DESCRIPTION:Luke de Noronha presents a CoDE seminar on Conviviality at/fr
 om the border:\n\nPaul Gilroy’s theorisations of ‘conviviality’ have bee
 n profoundly generative\, leading some sociologists to announce a ‘convi
 viality turn’. However\, there is a risk that\, as Les Back and Shamser 
 Sinha put it\, conviviality becomes a by-word for saccharine diversity f
 antasies. In other words\, conviviality gets reduced to everyday diversi
 ty and ‘getting along’ across and despite cultural difference\, which ca
 n only be based on a partial\, incomplete or mis reading of Gilroy’s adm
 ittedly difficult argument in After Empire. Importantly\, Gilroy finds c
 onviviality so precious precisely because the background to everyday mul
 ticulture is the nightmare of resurgent nationalism\, colonial melanchol
 ia and neoliberal statecraft. Without that backdrop\, conviviality loses
  purchase on the relation between culture and power. In this context\, m
 y argument is that we might usefully consider conviviality from and at t
 he border - from the wings of Immigration Removal Centres\, or in the li
 fe stories of ‘deportees’. I suggest that listening to people in detenti
 on or post-deportation reminds us not only that there is a radical openn
 ess to lived culture in multi-status Britain - i.e. many people subject 
 to immigration control demonstrate an outernational sensibility and are 
 often ‘against race’ - but also demonstrates why conviviality is such a 
 vital resource of hope in dark times. In short\, thinking about convivia
 lity from the border might help us recalibrate and reappraise the signif
 icance of multiculture in the context of intensifying racist state viole
 nce
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LOCATION:G.020/21\, Arthur Lewis Building\, Manchester
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