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Ambivalences of hospitality

Ambivalences of hospitality
Ambivalences of hospitality
This essay addresses the ambivalences, limits, and possibilities of an ethics of hospitality. It argues for three claims. First, there is a significant disjuncture between an ethics of hospitality and a politics of hospitality expressed as cosmopolitan right. Second, a cosmopolitan right of universal hospitality does not, and cannot, fully capture our obligations to refugees. Third, there is a significant role of an ethics of hospitality in a form that has been modulated by the discourse of moral equality and human dignity in helping to sustain a just politics of refuge.
Hospitality, Cosmopolitanism, Refugees
0037-783X
153-177
Owen, David
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Owen, David
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Owen, David (2022) Ambivalences of hospitality. Social Research, 89 (1), 153-177. (doi:10.1353/sor.2022.0009).

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This essay addresses the ambivalences, limits, and possibilities of an ethics of hospitality. It argues for three claims. First, there is a significant disjuncture between an ethics of hospitality and a politics of hospitality expressed as cosmopolitan right. Second, a cosmopolitan right of universal hospitality does not, and cannot, fully capture our obligations to refugees. Third, there is a significant role of an ethics of hospitality in a form that has been modulated by the discourse of moral equality and human dignity in helping to sustain a just politics of refuge.

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Published date: 1 March 2022
Additional Information: Funding Information: I am grateful to Peter Niesen for comments on a draft of this paper and to Arien Mack for the opportunity and encouragement.
Keywords: Hospitality, Cosmopolitanism, Refugees

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Local EPrints ID: 457527
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/457527
ISSN: 0037-783X
PURE UUID: f40d1291-be4e-4a77-bf3e-d23168425806
ORCID for David Owen: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-8865-6332

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Date deposited: 10 Jun 2022 16:33
Last modified: 06 Jun 2024 01:35

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