Conviviality as Performance of Pluralism and Living with Difference: Sociable Sociality and Labour of Peace

This chapter turns the attention from the collective embodiment of diversity to the individual performance of pluralism as “living with difference” where differences are not internalised, but they are engaged with, respected, sometimes negotiated and sometimes embraced. Conviviality, here, is then explored in interpersonal relations and friendships between individuals, who belong to different ethno-religious groups. I investigate the ways in which the islanders perform pluralism both as sociable sociality and also as doing labour of peace, in the ways in which they control tensions and manage conflicts.