ABSTRACT
Conviviality emerges in the social sciences as an analytical lens to study mundane human relations. It is often applied in contexts shaped by the geographical mobility of people, which results in multiple possibilities for socializing across ethnic and religious boundaries. While there are obvious similarities in the interests of convivial and transnational research, their epistemological assumptions differ in various ways. This chapter discusses the conceptual cross-fertilizations of the two concepts, showing how both perspectives can further advance our thinking on local relations, community and social inequality. This contribution proposes an understanding of transnationalism that responds to the critique of the term’s methodological territorialism. Such transnationalism, newly defined beyond connectivity, offers fruitful insights that could also enhance the debate over conviviality.
