The Stranger as My Guest: A Critical Anthropology of Hospitality

ISBN-13: 9781509539888 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 160 str.

Michel Agier; Helen Morrison

Recenzje

"Michel Agier has created a sensitive and innovative anthropology which does not describe social types: rather, it analyses relations, 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."Etienne Balibar, author of Secularism and Cosmopolitanism

Spis treści

AcknowledgementsIntroduction. Hospitality when least expectedChapter 1. Making the stranger my guestThe conditions of unconditionalityThe elementary forms of hospitalityFrom domestic hospitality to public hospitalityChapter 2. Hospitality - the challenge of the presentEncounters of a new typeHospitality - causes and effectsThe emergence of municipal hospitalityFrom ghetto to migrant housesHospitable municipality versus hostile stateChapter 3. The need for cosmopoliticsCosmopolitanism todayThe principle of hospitality and cosmopolitics from a philosophical perspectiveBanal cosmopolitanism: an anthropological point of viewChapter 4. Becoming a strangerThe death of Stavros or the birth of Joe ArnessThree times a strangerThe migrant poet and the spectre of the alienConclusionPostscript. The stranger post Covid-19NotesIndex

O autorze

Michel Agier 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.