Domestic Cosmopolitanism and Structures of Feeling: The Specificity of London

Nava, Mica

doi:10.4135/9781446213490.n4

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“…Cyril's description of places, accommodating, and being touched by, mobility also speaks to the themes that run through the everyday multiculture approach. It is intensely interdisciplinary in that it relies on a hybrid mix of social geography and spatial sociology which is reflected in the interdisciplinary nature of those associated with and/or working in the field (see, for example, Amin, 2002;Back, 1996;Clayton, 2009;Gilroy, 2004;Nava, 2006;Noble, 2010;Watson, 2006;Wise and Velayutham, 2009).…”

Section: The Convivial Everyday Turnmentioning

confidence: 98%

Living Multiculture: Understanding the New Spatial and Social Relations of Ethnicity and Multiculture in England

Neal

Bennett

Cochrane

et al. 2013

Environ Plann C Gov Policy

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Since 2001, as the social and spatial compositions of multiculture and migration have become more complicated and diverse, geography has moved back to the centre of policy, political, and academic arguments about cultural difference and ethnic diversity in England. This spatial turn is most obvious in preoccupations with notions of increasing ethnic segregation, but it is also apparent in discussions of the possibility of everyday multicultural exchanges in relationally understood places. Responding to the work of others on these questions and in these places, and informed by data from research exploring Ghanaian and Somali migrant settlement in Milton Keynes, we review some of the quantitative and qualitative evidence being drawn on in academic, policy, and political debates about contemporary multiculture. We problematise the dominance of the concept of segregation in these debates and examine the value of the concept of conviviality for understanding the ways in which multiculture is lived. IntroductionThe ways in which ethnic and cultural difference is lived and managed have been at the centre of debates across the social sciences in a range of national and globalised settings (see, eg. . Although these are transnational debates, in the sense that similar issues are considered in a range of contexts, they have quite specific national and local expressions. There is, however, a marked tension in the discussion between those who focus on the identification of a continuing process of segregation between ethnic groups and those who highlight the more interactive negotiations of multiculture. Here the issue is explored through the recent experience in England, where the tension has been apparent not only in the contributions made by academics but also in the pronouncements of politicians and in developing forms of policy practice.

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Section: The Convivial Everyday Turnmentioning

confidence: 98%

Living Multiculture: Understanding the New Spatial and Social Relations of Ethnicity and Multiculture in England

Neal

Bennett

Cochrane

et al. 2013

Environ Plann C Gov Policy

145

109

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“…Nava (2006), for instance, talks of 'domestic cosmopolitanism' to signal the capacity of a city like London to generate more inclusive forms of social imaginaries and belonging (see also Fortier, 2008). Amin (2002Amin ( , 2006 stresses the importance of the urban as the locus where racial and cultural differences are both encountered and negotiated, engendering a politics of connectivity or, in Gilroy's (2004) terms, 'conviviality' -a dwelling in close proximity which makes racial and ethnic difference looks ordinary, part of a cosmopolitan culture.…”

Section: Going Beyond the Nationalmentioning

confidence: 99%

Immigration societies and the question of ‘the national’

Antonsich

Matejskova

2015

Ethnicities

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“…In her approach, the meaning of ethnic difference, 'race' and specific urban space play a major role. A feminist, Nava (1998Nava ( , 2002Nava ( , 2006Nava ( , 2007 was one of the first authors to capture the gendered though racialized gaze on the Other in discourses of cosmopolitanism. Foremost her work problematizes the role of non-belonging, longing, desire and identification with marginalized difference, in discourses of cosmopolitanism.…”

Section: European Urban Spaces In Crisismentioning

confidence: 99%