A Derridean approach to Qatar’s paradox of hospitality

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Wisam Kh. Abdul-Jabbar, Wadha R. Alathba
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Qatar has been heavily critiqued for its alleged inability to be hospitable to fans and tourists from different cultural, gender, and religious backgrounds (Todman, 2022). It has been damagingly portrayed as an “unwelcoming and closed conservative country” (Al-Ansari & Zahirovic, 2021: 203). This article examines Qatar’s paradoxical positioning of hospitality. It draws on the Derridean notion of hospitality to conceptualize the Qatari cultural and sociopolitical context as being conditioned by “hostipitality,” a term that Derrida coined to explain the contradictory nature of hospitality, “a word which carries its own contradiction incorporated into it, a Latin word which allows itself to be parasitized by its opposite, ‘hostility’” (2000b: 3). This article, therefore, utilizes Derrida’s theory of “hostipitality” to deconstruct the Western mindset of liberalism and the alleged unconditional respect for all. Two examples are used, the Qatari World Cup and Souq Waqif, to further contextualize and problematize the paradoxical positionality of Qatari hospitality. How can applying the Derridean hostipitality help negotiate Qatar’s controversial hospitality positioning? How do the cases of the World Cup and Souq Waqif exemplify the paradoxical aspect of conditioned hospitality? Additionally, the “Ship of Theseus” thought experiment is used to situate the paradox and help reconcile hospitality with hostility to form an emerging conception of negotiated conditioned hospitality. This study invokes the paradox of the “Ship of Theseus” to respond to the Derridean contradictory notion of hostipitality and further problematize Qatar’s positionality of hospitality.
对卡塔尔热情好客悖论的一种荒诞的解读
卡塔尔因被指无法对来自不同文化、性别和宗教背景的球迷和游客友好而受到严厉批评(Todman, 2022)。它被描绘成一个“不受欢迎和封闭的保守国家”(Al-Ansari & Zahirovic, 2021: 203)。本文考察了卡塔尔在待客之道上自相矛盾的定位。它借鉴了德里德里的待客观念,将卡塔尔的文化和社会政治背景概念化为“待客”,德里达创造了一个术语来解释待客的矛盾本质,“一个带有自身矛盾的词,一个拉丁词,它允许自己被对立面“敌意”寄生”(2000b):3)因此,本文利用德里达的“敌意”理论来解构西方的自由主义思维和所谓的无条件尊重所有人。本文使用了卡塔尔世界杯和Souq Waqif这两个例子,进一步将卡塔尔热情好客的矛盾地位置于背景和问题之中。如何运用德里迪恩式的待客之道来帮助卡塔尔协商其备受争议的待客之道定位?世界杯和Souq Waqif的案例如何说明有条件的款待的矛盾方面?此外,“忒修斯之船”思想实验被用来定位悖论,并帮助调和好客与敌意,形成一个新兴的协商条件好客的概念。本研究引用了“忒修斯之船”的悖论来回应德里安式的矛盾的待客观念,并进一步提出卡塔尔待客的定位问题。
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