Intersections of Conviviality: Voices from Communities

The book Intersections of Conviviality: Voices from Communities brings together fifty contributions from scholars, artists, and activists based in Austria and beyond. This anthology marks the conclusion of the four-year arts-based research project Conviviality as Potentiality (FWF AR679, 2021–2025). 
Edited by: Marina Gržinić, Jovita Pristovšek, Asma Aiad, Anahita Neghabat 
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars, UK, 2025

The title — Intersections of Conviviality — signals a deliberate emphasis on the convergence of diverse experiences, knowledge systems, and political struggles. The term “intersections” evokes shared spaces and critical crossings — sites where identities meet, solidarities are forged, and differences are actively negotiated. “Voices from Communities” underscores the book’s commitment to lived experience and centers plural perspectives that are often marginalized within institutional discourse.

The volume explores conviviality as both a theoretical framework and a concrete practice for confronting and resisting systemic inequalities. It proposes conviviality as a method of community-building and alliance-making that challenges dominant logics of individualism, competition, and exclusion.

Across its contributions, the book highlights the potential of alliances that transcend borders of identity, geography, and culture. It centers the lived experiences, political resistance, and cultural empowerment of BIPOC communities, Muslim communities, and Trans individuals in Europe. Together, these voices articulate conviviality as a practice of survival, solidarity, and transformation in the face of neoliberalism, racialization, and social fragmentation.

The presentation of the book invites audiences to reflect on conviviality not only as an academic concept, but as a form of political engagement rooted in lived experience. It offers practical tools for envisioning alternative futures based on care, mutual support, and critical interdependence.