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"Tu veux un chewing-gum?": Encounters in Hospitality and Willfullness
Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Theology, Uppsala Religion and Society Research Centre.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-6256-6187
2021 (English)In: Contemporary Christian-Cultural Values: Migration Encounters in the Nordic Region / [ed] Nahnfeldt, Cecilia & Rønsdal, Kaia, London: Routledge, 2021Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

This chapter aims at identifying existential and theological learning from hospitality practices, based on fieldwork and autoethnographic studies. Willfulness and attention to the body (Ahmed) is central, as well as a focus on the trouble (Haraway). The author explores the limit between openness and determination, and a perspective of “this is as far as we have come” vs. “this is how far we can go” (Bornemark) in migration issues. The chapter focuses on self-experience as a resource for critical analysis in existential and theological theory and a method for working with aspects of diversity and identity. The material brings together the perspectives of the guests at the hospitality practice as well as the author's own gaze, critically discussing this gaze and her reaction in the interaction with the guests. The chapter shows how there is a continuum of exchange in a relationship, and that there is a need for a broader and more troubling way of negotiating reality, politics, and conceptual models, involving the other as neighbor. The chapter does not attempt to solve disharmonies; rather, it affirms that it is necessary to open the field and enter into it without knowing who the actors are or may become in the relationship.

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London: Routledge, 2021.
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Religion, Resistance, Hospitalities
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Philosophy, Ethics and Religion
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Systematic Theology and Studies in Worldviews
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URN: urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-446549ISBN: 9780367495664 (print)ISBN: 9780367495657 (print)ISBN: 9781003046646 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:uu-446549DiVA, id: diva2:1569926
Available from: 2021-06-21 Created: 2021-06-21 Last updated: 2021-11-30Bibliographically approved

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