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Utopian virtues: Muslim neighbors, ritual sociality, and the politics of convivència
Author(s) -
ERICKSON BRAD
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
american ethnologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.875
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1548-1425
pISSN - 0094-0496
DOI - 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2010.01296.x
Subject(s) - sociality , embodied cognition , politics , sociology , pluralism (philosophy) , immigration , vernacular , multiculturalism , social science , epistemology , political science , law , philosophy , theology , ecology , pedagogy , biology
ABSTRACT In this article, I explore articulations between ritual practice, public sociality, and the politics of immigration in Catalonia (Spain). I investigate phenomena associated with a vernacular interculturalist project known in Catalan as convivència (living together), an alternative to both xenophobic and liberal multiculturalist discourses circulating in Europe. I focus on the capacity of ritual practice to shape embodied socialities between hosts and immigrants and contextualize these dynamics by asking, what congeries of history, public reasoning, techniques of sociality, and policy feed momentum toward polarization or toward pluralism?