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- Publisher
- Wiley
- Copyright
- © 2017 by the American Anthropological Association
- ISSN
- 0893-0465
- eISSN
- 1548-744X
- DOI
- 10.1111/ciso.12124
- Publisher site
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Abstract
This Special Issue on Care and Hospitality in the City makes two unique contributions. First, it brings together anthropological discussions of care and hospitality within a single framework, and argues that care and hospitality both share the underlying logic of recognition that encompasses inter‐personal relationships. Second, it shows how examining practices of care and hospitality can encourage us to pay closer attention to the particular challenges city life poses to achieving balanced inter‐personal relationships. Practices of care and hospitality may bring people together, allowing them to form relationships of intimacy, generosity and friendship, but they can also help to create new social divides and forms of exclusion.In his introduction to this Special Issue, Farhan Samanani argues that city life provides a unique perspective from which to examine “what is at stake in care and hospitality, because […] in the city, immigrants, and others, are often simultaneously familiar neighbours and anonymous strangers, both personally‐connected and abstract” (242). As we navigate the city, Samanani explains, we experience and engage in “countless little acts of care” (245) or hospitality. Shedding light on the significance of these myriad inter‐personal encounters is a central focus of the papers in this issue. Samanani encourages us
Journal
City & Society – Wiley
Published: Aug 1, 2017