Conviviality And Mobilities: Discussing Post-cosmopolitan Cities In The Mediterranean

Résumé: The Mediterranean has long been considered the cradle of civilization, the plaque tournant of migrations, the meeting region between East and West, the heart site in the conception of the ville-Monde, etc. However, little research has been conducted on these issues within the contextual Mediterranean debate, transferred in some way to the time of contemporary mobilities. Indeed, scientific production is sorely lacking in the prevalence of the cosmopolitan attribute to research into Mediterranean cities in the global age; particularly at a time when the revival of the adjective ‘cosmopolitan’ is in greater use than ever in the social sciences. With the help of two brief examples, we will discuss how to understand conviviality and motilities at the urban scale. From the multiple faces of the city of Tangiers (Morocco) and the city of Oran (Algeria), we address the forms of thinking the post-cosmopolitan city, analysing their particular attributes regarding metropolisation, mobilities and mobilization and inference in the acquisition of conviviality and the right to the city in the age of global mobilities. Based on several pieces of research conducted by the authors, this work reflects on the multiple forms of cosmopolitanism that have configured these two cities.

Publié dans la revue: أفكار وآفاق