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Staged and Sensuous

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Comparing Conviviality

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The staged and sensuous interplay in religious celebrations and cultural events as difference abounds. Staged recognition of difference is in stark contrast to my interlocutors’ tactical blurring of boundaries as well as sensuous ways of accessing difference. I address the heteroglossia of voices and actions at festivities in open spaces, such as Tabaski, Semana Santa, and cultural events, to see how conviviality unfolds, both in line with political intentions and beyond them. Strategic state action is juxtaposed to people’s tactical approaches as they have an unequal say over the encompassing power geometry. Fragile convivial space emerges both from the staging of conviviality and from the sensuous experiences of participants. Successful past negotiations curtail the events’ immanent risk of derailment and become hallmarks for future interactions.

Granollers, Catalonia, October 2010

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Notes

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    Human towers in Catalan are called castells (literally, castles), which Erickson (2011, p. 119) aptly describes as ‘the most ephemeral architectural structures in the world […] made of living human bodies […] as models of integrated cooperation’.

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    Other aspects of ZigFest like the economic fair, the opening of development offices, and the conference held in Cap Skirring to debate local-scale development cooperation lie beyond the scope of this analysis (Zig’Fest 2010).

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    Some of the work of the migrant associations has been portrayed in Sow (2005) and Sokpoh (2006). On the relationship between the town hall and migrant associations for both co-development and local incorporation cf. Østergaard-Nielsen (2009).

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Heil, T. (2020). Staged and Sensuous. In: Comparing Conviviality. Global Diversities. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34717-8_4

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