Details

The Stranger as My Guest


The Stranger as My Guest

A Critical Anthropology of Hospitality
1. Aufl.

von: Michel Agier

15,99 €

Verlag: Wiley
Format: PDF
Veröffentl.: 14.01.2021
ISBN/EAN: 9781509544929
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 160

DRM-geschütztes eBook, Sie benötigen z.B. Adobe Digital Editions und eine Adobe ID zum Lesen.

Beschreibungen

<p>The migration crisis of recent years has elicited a double response: on the one hand, many states have responded by tightening border controls, in an attempt to restrict population movements, while on the other hand many citizens have responded by welcoming new arrivals, offering them shelter, food and whatever help they could provide. By so doing, they have re-awakened an old form of anthropology that was long-considered to be dead – that of hospitality.</p> <p>In this book, Agier develops an original anthropology of hospitality that starts from the reality of hospitality as a social relationship, albeit an asymmetrical one, in which each party has rights and duties. He argues that, with the decline of state and religious support, hospitality is now making a comeback at individual and municipal levels but these local initiatives, while important, are insufficient to respond to the scale of migration in the world today. We need a new hospitality policy for the modern era, one that will regard hospitality as a right rather than a favour and will treat the stranger as a guest rather than as an alien or an enemy.</p> <p>This timely and original book will be of great interest to students and scholars in anthropology, sociology and the social sciences generally, and to anyone concerned with migration and refugees in the world today.</p>
Acknowledgements<br /><br /> <br /> Introduction. Hospitality when least expected<br /><br /> <br /> Chapter 1. Making the stranger my guest<br /><br /> The conditions of unconditionality <br /><br /> The elementary forms of hospitality<br /><br /> From domestic hospitality to public hospitality<br /><br /> <br /> Chapter 2. Hospitality – the challenge of the present<br /><br /> Encounters of a new type<br /><br /> Hospitality – causes and effects<br /><br /> The emergence of municipal hospitality<br /><br /> From ghetto to migrant houses<br /><br /> Hospitable municipality versus hostile state<br /><br /> <br /> Chapter 3. The need for cosmopolitics<br /><br /> Cosmopolitanism today<br /><br /> The principle of hospitality and cosmopolitics from a philosophical perspective<br /><br /> Banal cosmopolitanism: an anthropological point of view<br /><br /> <br /> Chapter 4. Becoming a stranger<br /><br /> The death of Stavros or the birth of Joe Arness<br /><br /> Three times a stranger<br /><br /> The migrant poet and the spectre of the alien <br /><br /> <br /> Conclusion<br /><br /> <br /> Postscript. The stranger post Covid-19<br /><br /> Notes<br /><br /> Index
“Michel Agier has created a sensitive and innovative anthropology which does not describe social <i>types</i>: rather, it analyses <i>relations</i>, through participation in the migrant’s trials and solidarity with their efforts to overcome a condition of fear and hostility, often death. Delineating the multiple figures of the stranger that we are all, he paves the way for a cosmopolitanism of the wandering humanity, our coming humanity.”<br /><b>Etienne Balibar, author of <i>Secularism and Cosmopolitanism</i></b>
<b>Michel Agier</b> is Senior Researcher at the French Institute of Research for Development (IRD) and Professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris.

Diese Produkte könnten Sie auch interessieren:

As Pastoralists Settle
As Pastoralists Settle
von: Elliot Fratkin, Eric Abella Roth
PDF ebook
139,09 €
Risk Management in a Hazardous Environment
Risk Management in a Hazardous Environment
von: Michael Bollig
PDF ebook
96,29 €
Seeking a Richer Harvest
Seeking a Richer Harvest
von: Tina Thurston, Christopher T Fisher
PDF ebook
96,29 €