That’s What Friends Are For: Hospitality and affective bonds fostering collective empowerment in an intentional community
通过对一个活动家志同道合社区的民族志研究，分析友谊实践如何通过民主实践产生持久的赋权形式，并揭示培养情感纽带如何通过共同生活体验预演另类生活方式。
Processes of collective empowerment are essentially concerned with the production of social and emotional configurations fostering a mutual awareness that social change is both desirable and feasible. Using an ethnographic study of an intentional community of activists, this paper analyses how friendship practices produce enduring forms of empowerment based on democratic praxis. The analysis shows that nurturing affective bonds of friendship facilitates the prefiguration of alternative ways of life through the experience of living together. This is supported by the cultivation of hexis as a political frame, which reassesses the centrality of human beings’ otherness and fosters complex equality within relationships.