1st Edition

Convivialities Possibility and Ambivalence in Urban Multicultures

Edited By Amanda Wise, Greg Noble Copyright 2018
126 Pages
by Routledge

126 Pages
by Routledge

126 Pages
by Routledge

We live in a time of rising anti-immigrant fervour and attacks on multiculturalism. As Stuart Hall argued over twenty years ago, the capacity to live with difference is the pressing issue of our time. This is true perhaps now more than ever. This collection takes a critical look at the ‘conviviality turn’ in our understanding of coexistence and urban multiculture. Drawing on case studies out... Read more

Introduction: Convivialities: An Orientation  1. Unpacking Intercultural Conviviality in Multiethnic Commercial Streets  2. Settling in a Super-Diverse Context: Recent Migrants’ Experiences of Conviviality  3. Extended Encounters in Primary School Worlds: Shared Social Resource, Connective Spaces and Sustained Conviviality in Socially and Ethnically Complex Urban Geographies  4. Convivial Labour and the ‘Joking Relationship’: Humour and Everyday Multiculturalism at Work  5. Rethinking Youth Conviviality: The Possibilities of Intercultural Friendship Beyond Contact and Encounter  6. Multicultural Conviviality in the Midst of Racism’s Ruins

Biography

Amanda Wise is Associate Professor of Sociology at Macquarie University, Australia. Her research interests focus on everyday multiculturalism, urban diversity, race and ethnic relations, migration and transnational migrant labour.



Greg Noble is Professor at the Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University, Australia. His research interests focus on the intersection of youth, ethnicity and gender; migration and everyday multiculturalism; Bourdieusian theory; and multicultural education.