Terms of Transcultural Affinity
Terms of Transcultural Affinity
This chapter follows the role of claims to affinity across difference and distance as scaling devices. It articulates Tunisians and Sicilians’ model of relatedness and interaction across difference – religious, national, or civilizational. This view of the relationship between history and culture premised multicultural sociability not on the avoidance of difference but rather on its constant marking. By examining the alternative it poses to cosmopolitan tolerance, global human fraternity, and official inter-faith dialogue, I engage recent scholarship on Mediterranean cosmopolitanism and the example that the sea’s past is said to set for a global political order. Ashore, I turn to discuss how this view of transnational relations as relatedness across difference confronted several Mediterraneanist projects in the cultural politics of Mazara, where a new generation of local politicians and businesspersons has been baptizing the fleet’s operation to fit the growing European concerted action in Southern Europe and North Africa.
Keywords: relatedness, affinity, cosmopolitanism, cultural politics, multiculturalism, difference, interfaith dialogue
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