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    Drawing as concept

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    Scene of a street sale in Rio as a pencil sketch.

    Recently, Laura Lamas Abraia pushed all workshop at KU Leuven (Belgium) participants to think about the possibility to conceive of the drawing as concept. I am not sure how to get there yet but when asked to include images in a recent article on the sensory attunement to the city, I met once more with the challenge of how to do justice to my ethical impetus of wanting to respect the privacy of my interlocutors and the wish to show with more than words what happens on the streets of Rio de Janeiro.


    From this challenge resulted my first sketches of a street vending situation. Of course, it is far from a concept. But still, a beginning. This is finally a move forward from my corridor encounter with Steven Van Wolputte who in 2019 offered to enrich my book Comparing Conviviality with some marvellous drawings of his own on the basis of my visual fieldwork material.


    Let's see if it will find the light of the day in publishing.



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    Apresentação e debate do livro em lançamento

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    Três debates do meu livro em lançamento

    I: Museu Nacional, Horto Botânico, Quinta da Boa Vista, s/n - São Cristóvão, Rio de Janeiro
    12 de março 2020, 9:30 horas
    com os debatedores
    Joana Bahia, Professora titular, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
    El Hadji Diallo, Jornalista e tradutor independente
    Charles P. Gomes, Pesquisador, Fundação Casa de Rui Barbosa
     
    II: Núcleo interdisciplinar de Estudos Migratórios, IPPUR, UFRJ, Rua da Lapa 120 / 204
    13 de março 2020, 17:00 horas
    com a debatedora
    Miriam de Oliveira Santos, Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro

    III. Centro de Estudos Africanos, Universidade de São Paulo, USP
    Sala 08, Avenida Luciano Gualberto 315
    16 de março 2020, 15:00 horas
    com os debatedores
    Alexander Yao Cobbinah, USP
    Luciane Scarato, Universidade de Colônia e Mecila/Cebrap


    Sumário do livro
    Em um mundo onde a diferença é muitas vezes vista como uma ameaça ou desafio, o livro explora como as pessoas realmente vivem em sociedades diversas. Baseado numa etnografia a longo prazo de africanos ocidentais, tanto no Senegal como na Espanha, este livro propõe que a convivialidade é um compromisso com a diferença entre etnias, línguas, religiões e práticas.

    Tilmann Heil reúne histórias de longa data, projetos políticos e práticas cotidianas de viver com a diferença. Com foco na vida de bairros em Casamança, Senegal e Catalunha, Espanha - duas regiões igualmente complexas - o livro mostra como os senegaleses negociam e traduzem com habilidade os meandros da diferença e do poder. Nestes mundos africanos e europeus vividos, a convivialidade é sempre temporária e em transformação.

    Este livro oferece uma leitura texturizada, realista, porém esperançosa, da diferença, da mudança social, do poder e do respeito.
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    Researching with Difference

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    As a key part of my research for the book Comparing Conviviality, I reflect on the differences between me and my interlocutors, my privilege and the commonalities we identified and challenges we faced. The relations we forged throughout the research process and beyond materialized at the intersection of race, origin, class, world view and outlook, among others.
    Impressions from the presentation and debate of Comparing Conviviality at the Núcleo Interdisciplinar de Estudos Migratórios (NIEM), IPPUR, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, in March 2020.

    The sound at the beginning and end are from ZigFest in 2010 in Ziguinchor, Senegal which I discuss in Chapter 4: Staged and sensous.

    If ever you do not have access to the book through your institution, please get in touch.
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    The birth of a concept

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    The book Comparing Conviviality takes the claim to a better knowledge and practice of how to live with difference foreward that Senegalese migrants in Catalonia made. Pursuing such non-hegemonic knowledge during 18-month of multi-sited, ethnographic fieldwork in Casamance, Senegal, and Catalonia, Spain, this quest has led to the formulation of an unstable concept: conviviality.
    Impressions from the presentation and debate of Comparing Conviviality at the Núcleo Interdisciplinar de Estudos Migratórios (NIEM), IPPUR, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, in March 2020.

    The sound at the beginning and end are from ZigFest in 2010 in Ziguinchor, Senegal which I discuss in Chapter 4: Staged and sensous.

    If ever you do not have access to the book through your institution, please get in touch.
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    Changing the debate on migration

    Comparing Conviviality Events Migration Publications Senegal Spain
    My work on migration accross one of the most unequal geographies in the world, the Mediterranean, was driven by the dissatisfaction with how the people were mainly framed: victims, criminals, or undeserving 'bogus' refugees. These debates are often driven by the problem of Europeans to deal with those who are different at their doorstep. My book Comparing Conviviality shifts this debate, engaging with the knowledge of mobile Africans and how they live with difference.
    Impressions from the presentation and debate of Comparing Conviviality at the Núcleo Interdisciplinar de Estudos Migratórios (NIEM), IPPUR, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, in March 2020.

    The sound at the beginning and end are from ZigFest in 2010 in Ziguinchor, Senegal which I discuss in Chapter 4: Staged and sensous.

    If ever you do not have access to the book through your institution, please get in touch.
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    Discussing Southern knowledge of conviviality in Rio de Janeiro

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    Núcleo Interdisciplinar de Estudos Migratórios, IPPUR, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
    During the second discussion of my monograph Comparing Conviviality during the first meeting of the Interdisciplinary Group on Migration Studies at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, I conveyed a long story in a nutshell: how my thinking on conviviality is grounded in representations and practices of neigbhourliness and cohabitation that make it necessary and possible to arrive at a concept of living with difference that frames forms of minimal sociality in unstable, uncertain, and changing urban contexts. This contrasts to Stuart Hall's characterisation of most of our concepts, which social sciences came up with to give us the impression of a stability that in actual fact never existed. Conviviality instead is meant to be a simple tool to speak of such complex and challenging situations and describe how human sociality unfolds in them.
    I thank my colleagues from the Research Group and other participants for their interest and appreciation, especially Prof. Miriam da Silveira Santos who kicked off her comments with: 'I have accompanied Tilmann's work for some years now; no I finally understood what he does. He goes back to a key dimension of anthropology: that of comparison.' It resonated with Prof. Joana Bahia observation how I pay attention the fact that our interlocutors in the field - in my case transnational Senegalese from the Casamance region - are the true masters of comparison.