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Extending hospitality : giving space, taking time. / Dikec, Mustafa; Clark, Nigel; Barnett, Clive .
In: Paragraph, Vol. 32, No. 1, 03.2009, p. 1-14.Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Extending hospitality
T2 - giving space, taking time
AU - Dikec, Mustafa
AU - Clark, Nigel
AU - Barnett, Clive
PY - 2009/3
Y1 - 2009/3
N2 - The recent revival of the theme of hospitality in the humanities and social sciences reflects a shared concern with issues of belonging, identity and placement that arises out of the experience of globalized social life. In this context, migration — or spatial dislocation and relocation — is often equated with demands for hospitality. There is a need to engage more carefully with the ‘proximities’ that prompt acts of hospitality and inhospitality; to attend more closely to their spatial and temporal dimensions. Is the stranger or the Other primarily one who is recognisably ‘out of place’? Or is there more to being estranged than moving from one territory to another? This brings us to the question of human finitude, and to the possibility of encounters with others that do not simply only occur in time or space, but are themselves generative of new times and spaces.
AB - The recent revival of the theme of hospitality in the humanities and social sciences reflects a shared concern with issues of belonging, identity and placement that arises out of the experience of globalized social life. In this context, migration — or spatial dislocation and relocation — is often equated with demands for hospitality. There is a need to engage more carefully with the ‘proximities’ that prompt acts of hospitality and inhospitality; to attend more closely to their spatial and temporal dimensions. Is the stranger or the Other primarily one who is recognisably ‘out of place’? Or is there more to being estranged than moving from one territory to another? This brings us to the question of human finitude, and to the possibility of encounters with others that do not simply only occur in time or space, but are themselves generative of new times and spaces.
KW - hospitality
KW - Derrida
KW - Levinas
KW - otherness
KW - gift
KW - time
KW - space
KW - globalization
KW - human finitude
U2 - 10.3366/E0264833409000376
DO - 10.3366/E0264833409000376
M3 - Journal article
VL - 32
SP - 1
EP - 14
JO - Paragraph
JF - Paragraph
SN - 0264-8334
IS - 1
ER -