The Stranger as My Guest: A Critical Anthropology of Hospitality

ISBN-13: 9781509539895 / Angielski / Miękka / 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

Acknowledgements Introduction. Hospitality when least expected Chapter 1. Making the stranger my guest The conditions of unconditionality The elementary forms of hospitality From domestic hospitality to public hospitality Chapter 2. Hospitality - the challenge of the present Encounters of a new type Hospitality - causes and effects The emergence of municipal hospitality From ghetto to migrant houses Hospitable municipality versus hostile state Chapter 3. The need for cosmopolitics Cosmopolitanism today The principle of hospitality and cosmopolitics from a philosophical perspective Banal cosmopolitanism: an anthropological point of view Chapter 4. Becoming a stranger The death of Stavros or the birth of Joe Arness Three times a stranger The migrant poet and the spectre of the alien Conclusion Postscript. The stranger post Covid-19 Notes Index

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.