RT Journal Article SR Electronic(1) A1 Swain, SaraYR 2020 T1 Feral Hospitality: Thinking Outside the House With Kedi JF Public, VO 31 IS 61 SP 90 OP 173 DO https://doi.org/10.1386/public_00028_1 PB Intellect, SN 2048-6928, AB Our current understandings of hospitality are largely informed by the Western European philosophical tradition. This tradition, however, restricts accommodation to the proprietary space of the human house, or to its equivalent, the nation state. Both can only offer a constrained, exclusive, and temporary welcome. This has significantly limited the possibilities for imagining and practicing hospitality. In order to challenge the perceived scarcity at the heart of hospitality’s spatial imaginary, this essay turns to Kedi, Ceyda Torun’s 2016 documentary about Turkish street cats. Using the film as a guide, it explores what hospitality can look like outside the house. By tending to the relationships between cats and the people of Istanbul, the film offers a glimpse of a more capacious, creaturely, and cosmopolitan alternative I call, “feral Hospitality.” This is an itinerant and performative hospitality that produces rather than consumes space., UL https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/10.1386/public_00028_1