1st Edition

Multiculturalism and the Arts in European Cities

Edited By Marco Martiniello Copyright 2014
120 Pages
by Routledge

120 Pages
by Routledge

120 Pages
by Routledge

This book discusses the tension, or even the contradiction, between ethno-cultural segregation and ethno-cultural mixing in the field of the arts. It focuses on the local artistic sphere in the multicultural EU cities of Amsterdam, Antwerp, Brussels, Cologne, Malmö and Vienna. The chapters show a variety of local experiences by exploring in each city discourses, policies and practices in the... Read more

1. Artistic separation versus artistic mixing in European multicultural cities Marco Martiniello

2. Art for integration: political rationalities and technologies of governmentalisation in the city of Malmö Berndt Clavier and Asko Kauppinen

3. A contested terrain: immigrants and their descendants in Viennese culture Wiebke Sievers

4. Mobilisation strategies of individual and institutional actors in Brussels’ artistic and cultural scenes Joseph Costanzo and Fatima Zibouh

5. Integrating by means of art? Expressions of cultural hybridisations in the city of Antwerp Els Vanderwaeren

6. ‘A commitment to cultural pluralism’. Diversity practices in two Amsterdam venues: Paradiso and De Meervaart Christine Delhaye and Victor van de Ven

7. How diverse is Cologne carnival? How migrants appropriate popular art spaces Monika Salzbrunn

Biography

Marco Martiniello is Research Director at the Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research (FRS-FNRS) and a Professor of Sociology at the University of Liège, Belgium. He is the director of the Center for Ethnic and Migration Studies, CEDEM-University of Liège, Belgium.