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BEYOND THE WALLS
BEING WITH EACH OTHER
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This universalism already points to alternative bonds and forms of belonging, attachment, relating, feeling, and organizing beyond traditional communities and even beyond the nation-state model. These alternative bonds are fully based and dependent on the plurality by which they are constituted. As Bauman states: “Such universality reaching beyond the confines of sovereign or quasi-sovereign communities is a conditio sine qua non of a republic reaching beyond the confines of sovereign or quasi-sovereign states; and the republic doing just that is the sole alternative to blind, elemental, erratic, uncontrolled, divisive and polarizing forces of globalization” (202).
In line with Bauman’s sociological yearnings, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s Nationalism and the Imagination (2010) also vindicates the need to “think without nation”, to de-transcendentalize nationalism through an exercise in equivalence which “rid[s] the mind of the narrowness of believing in one thing and not in other things” (72). Grounding this claim on the notion of comparativism, which she uses to the analysis of languages, Spivak conceives “equivalence” as the exercise of being aware that all human beings in all parts of the world feel a similar attachment to their “corners of the world” (their languages, lands, families, religious and nonreligious beliefs, cultural affiliations, gender and sexual identities, etc.), and that, therefore, each of these smaller or larger personal “spaces” deserves to be as equally respected, protected, preserved, and nourished, as it needs to be transcended in order to avoid falling into exceptionalist or monolithic conceptions of the world. Spivak defines equivalence thus:
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