Convivialities
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.
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.
Convivialities
Possibility and Ambivalence in
Urban Multicultures
Edited by
Amanda Wise and Greg Noble
First published 2018
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Contents
Citation Information
The chapters in this book were originally published in the Journal of Intercultural Studies, volume 37, issue 5 (October 2016). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:
Introduction
Convivialities: An Orientation
Amanda Wise and Greg Noble
Journal of Intercultural Studies, volume 37, issue 5 (October 2016), pp. 423431
Chapter 1
Unpacking Intercultural Conviviality in Multiethnic Commercial Streets
Martha Radice
Journal of Intercultural Studies, volume 37, issue 5 (October 2016), pp. 432448
Chapter 2
Settling in a Super-Diverse Context: Recent Migrants Experiences of Conviviality
Susanne Wessendorf
Journal of Intercultural Studies, volume 37, issue 5 (October 2016), pp. 449463
Chapter 3
Extended Encounters in Primary School Worlds: Shared Social Resource, Connective Spaces and Sustained Conviviality in Socially and Ethnically Complex Urban Geographies
Sarah Neal, Carol Vincent and Humera Iqbal
Journal of Intercultural Studies, volume 37, issue 5 (October 2016), pp. 464480
Chapter 4
Convivial Labour and the Joking Relationship: Humour and Everyday Multiculturalism at Work
Amanda Wise
Journal of Intercultural Studies, volume 37, issue 5 (October 2016), pp. 481500
Chapter 5
Rethinking Youth Conviviality: The Possibilities of Intercultural Friendship Beyond Contact and Encounter
Anita Harris
Journal of Intercultural Studies, volume 37, issue 5 (October 2016), pp. 501516
Chapter 6
Multicultural Conviviality in the Midst of Racisms Ruins
Les Back and Shamser Sinha
Journal of Intercultural Studies, volume 37, issue 5 (October 2016), pp. 517532
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Notes on Contributors
Les Back is Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. His main fields of interest are the sociology of racism, multiculturalism, migration, popular culture and city life.
Anita Harris is a Research Professor in the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Australia. She is a youth sociologist undertaking a series of projects on youth and citizenship, including the completion of an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship. Her most recent book is Young People and Everyday Multiculturalism (Routledge).
Humera Iqbal is a Lecturer of Psychology at the Institute of Education, University College London, UK. Humera has been involved in research and writing from both Economic and Social Research Council and Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded projects.
Sarah Neal is Professor of Sociology at the University of Sheffield, UK. Sarah has researched and published widely in the fields of race, ethnicity, multiculture, community, belonging, place and policy-making. She is co-Editor of Sociology and on the Editorial Board of Ethnic and Racial Studies.
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.
Martha Radice is a social anthropologist who works on public space, public art, interethnic relations and neighbourhood change in cities. She is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at Dalhousie University, Canada.
Shamser Sinha is Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Youth Studies at the University of Suffolk, UK. His main fields of interest are racism, separated and unaccompanied asylum seekers and refugees, postcolonialism, migration and youth studies.
Carol Vincent
