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Aspiring to Be Modern

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Comparing Conviviality

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The retreat from open spaces, the longing for individuality, and national homogenisation exemplify modulations of Casamançais aspirations to be modern, providing rich counternarratives to lived experiences with difference. Perceived risks and negative potentiality challenge the capacity of neighbourhood spaces as open. However, the contested socialities of migrant homes and other migrant spaces form part of the process of conviviality. Juxtaposing individual aspirations to autonomy, degrees of conviviality, open conflict, and mutual non-engagement reveals ongoing everyday struggles. Part of these struggles concern the maintenance of configurations of difference or the privileging of homogenising processes which trigger hopes of a modern future. The dynamic, relational processes of change and continuity interweave aspirations for modern life with adjustments in modes of living with difference.

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Heil, T. (2020). Aspiring to Be Modern. In: Comparing Conviviality. Global Diversities. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34717-8_5

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