Convivialities

Possibility and Ambivalence in Urban Multicultures

Amanda Wise, Greg Noble (University of Western Sydney, Australia)

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Routledge
28 November 2017

Migration, immigration & emigration; Urban communities; Ethnic studies; Sociology; Social & cultural anthropology

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 of the UK, Europe, Australia and Canada, contributors to this collection explore the practices and dispositions of everyday people who negotiate a ‘shared life’ in their culturally diverse neighbourhoods and communities, and the complexities and ambivalences that make up ‘living together’. Chapters focus on spaces of encounter, navigations of friendship and humour across difference, and the networks of hope and care that exist alongside experiences of racism. A theme of the book is that we live neither in a world where convivial multiculture has been accomplished nor one where it has been lost: it is, as it must be, a work in progress.

This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Intercultural Studies.

Edited by: Amanda Wise, Greg Noble (University of Western Sydney, Australia)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 174mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781138503991
ISBN 10: 1138503991
Pages: 116
Publication Date: 28 November 2017
Audience: College/higher education , Primary , A / AS level
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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

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.