KL: Encarnacion Gutierrez-Rodriguez: Archipelago Europe: On Creolizing Conviviality

In 2011, in an interview with the journalist Fréderic Joignot, Édouard Glissant commented on the Archipelagean Becoming of Europe. Bringing Europe closer to the epistemic grounds of „Antilleneaty“, Glissant discussed the epistemic implications of the translation of this Caribbean concept to the European context. From this angle the world can be thought in the Gestalt of creolization. This understanding of creolization introduces a notion of “living together” departing from a critical race and decolonial perspective. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted in Manchester (UK) on Spanish and Latin American diasporic networks between 2010 and 2013, this paper looks at the strategies of “making homes” resonating or contesting the epistemological framework of creolization.