{"product_id":"the-stranger-as-my-guest-a-critical-anthropology-of-hospitality-hardback-9781509539888","title":"The Stranger as My Guest; A Critical Anthropology of Hospitality (Hardback) 9781509539888","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Stranger as My Guest\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA Critical Anthropology of Hospitality\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMichel Agier (Author), Helen Morrison (Translated by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781509539888, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 22 January 2021\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e160 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.8 x 14.2 x 1.8 cm, 0.318 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Michel Agier has created a sensitive and innovative anthropology which does not describe social \u003ci\u003etypes\u003c\/i\u003e: rather, it analyses \u003ci\u003erelations\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEtienne Balibar, author of \u003ci\u003eSecularism and Cosmopolitanism\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe migration crisis of recent years has elicited a double response: on the one hand, many states have responded by tightening border controls, in an attempt to restrict population movements, while on the other hand many citizens have responded by welcoming new arrivals, offering them shelter, food and whatever help they could provide. By so doing, they have re-awakened an old form of anthropology that was long-considered to be dead – that of hospitality.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn this book, Agier develops an original anthropology of hospitality that starts from the reality of hospitality as a social relationship, albeit an asymmetrical one, in which each party has rights and duties. He argues that, with the decline of state and religious support, hospitality is now making a comeback at individual and municipal levels but these local initiatives, while important, are insufficient to respond to the scale of migration in the world today. We need a new hospitality policy for the modern era, one that will regard hospitality as a right rather than a favour and will treat the stranger as a guest rather than as an alien or an enemy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis timely and original book will be of great interest to students and scholars in anthropology, sociology and the social sciences generally, and to anyone concerned with migration and refugees in the world today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Introduction. Hospitality when least expected\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. Making the stranger my guest\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The conditions of unconditionality \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The elementary forms of hospitality\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e From domestic hospitality to public hospitality\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. Hospitality – the challenge of the present\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Encounters of a new type\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Hospitality – causes and effects\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The emergence of municipal hospitality\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e From ghetto to migrant houses\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Hospitable municipality versus hostile state\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. The need for cosmopolitics\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Cosmopolitanism today\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The principle of hospitality and cosmopolitics from a philosophical perspective\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Banal cosmopolitanism: an anthropological point of view\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. Becoming a stranger\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The death of Stavros or the birth of Joe Arness\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Three times a stranger\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The migrant poet and the spectre of the alien \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Postscript. The stranger post Covid-19\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Archaeology [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Archaeology\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Archaeology%20%5BHD%5D%22\"\u003eHD\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52441802998040,"sku":"9781509539888","price":38.67,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781509539888.jpg?v=1785026119","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-stranger-as-my-guest-a-critical-anthropology-of-hospitality-hardback-9781509539888","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}