1st Edition

Place, Diversity and Solidarity

224 Pages
by Routledge

196 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

196 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

In many countries, particularly in the Global North, established forms of solidarity within communities are said to be challenged by the increasing ethnic and cultural diversity of the population. Against the backdrop of renewed geopolitical tensions – which inflate and exploit ethno-cultural, rather than political-economic cleavages – concerns are raised that ethnic and... Read more

1. Beyond social capital: place, diversity and solidarity

Stijn Oosterlynck, Nick Schuermans & Maarten Loopmans

 

2. Mundane mutualities: Solidarity and strangership in everyday urban life

Mervyn Horgan

 

3. Learning to cope with superdiversity: place-based solidarities at a (pre-)primary Catholic school in Leuven, Belgium

Nick Schuermans & Pascal Debruyne

 

4. Building Coalitions: Solidarities, friendships, and tackling inequality

Helen F. Wilson

 

5. Self-building in northern Italy: Housing and place-based solidarities among strangers

Michela Semprebon & Martina Valsesia

 

6. Challenging the figure of the ‘migrant entrepreneur’. Place-based solidarities in the Romanian arrival infrastructure in Brussels.

Bruno Meeus

 

7. The spatial solidarity of intentional neighbouring

Andy Walter, Katherine Hankins & Samuel Nowak

 

8. Football for solidarity: Bridging gaps between the Baka and the Bantu in East Cameroon

Harrison Esam Awuh & Floor Elisabeth Spijkers

 

9. Domesticating, festivalising and contesting space: Spatial acts of citizenship in a super-diverse neighbourhood in Amsterdam

Mandy de Wilde

 

10. Afterword: Solidarities, conjunctures, encounters

David Featherstone

Biography

Stijn Oosterlynck is Associate Professor in Urban Sociology at the University of Antwerp, Belgium.

Nick Schuermans is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre on Inequalities, Poverty, Social Exclusion and the City of the University of Antwerp and a teaching associate at the geography department of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium.

Maarten Loopmans is Associate Professor at the Division of Geography at KU Leuven, Belgium.