Everyday space, mobile subjects and place-based belonging in suburban Sydney

Williamson, Rebecca

doi:10.1080/1369183x.2016.1205803

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“…A class with an affinity to global consumer culture like that in LKF, but does not necessarily presage great mobility. Of the excluded, numerous studies have documented the exclusion of migrants (Williamson, 2016;Ye, 2016), in this study I found local people could feel uncomfortable, and so be excluded. That migrants and non-migrants can be similarly displaced in the global city suggests an axis of stratification that works along the lines of hegemonic globalism.…”

Section: Our Small Worldsmentioning

confidence: 77%

Unfamiliar rhythms and the micro-politics of late-modernity: An ethnography of global Hong Kong

Jankowski

2020

The Sociological Review

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This article explores connection or disjuncture between everyday life and global culture. Efforts to de-essentialise or pluralise urban globalisation have focused on local negotiations of discourse or the macro effects of the world city, here rhythmanalysis is used to bridge these approaches. The analysis develops on the tension between the theoretically-based multiplicity and reflexivity of late-modernity, and the structured reality that has been documented. The global city is stratified through spatial and dispositional-embodied qualities that dramatically truncate the possibility of encountering unfamiliarity through everyday life. These stratifications lean on each other and replicate as ‘small worlds’ of co-constitutive, comfortable spaces. To explore this, Lefebvre’s rhythmanalysis is used to explicate participant accounts of going to a nightlife district in Hong Kong for the first time. For some, the district is present in daily life, contributing to a fluent connection and orthodox visitation. Meanwhile, subjects who visit under less seamless conditions reflexively feel out of place and corporally distinct. This article contributes to understanding the micro-politics of late-modernity, the very real, yet transparent, spatial and embodied barriers which truncate individual flourishing in late-modern societies.

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Section: Our Small Worldsmentioning

confidence: 77%

Unfamiliar rhythms and the micro-politics of late-modernity: An ethnography of global Hong Kong

Jankowski

2020

The Sociological Review

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“…For example, migrants build place in this liminal context. Previous studies have noted the efforts migrants must go to establishing a sense of place or connection (Butcher, ; Farrer, ; Williamson, ) but have not addressed the sense of change and beginning (Ghosh & Wang, ; White & White, ) that are a characterising foreground to migrant place‐making. Deeper understanding and analyses can be achieved by looking at the entire process from ephemeral discovery, establishing a mobile sense of place, to the more traditional sense of rootedness that is so often focused upon.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Migrants to some extent may be affected by a sense of mobility that arises from their corporeal movement (Easthope, ). This could be owing to the heightened sense of change that movement precipitates (Cohen, ; Easthope, ) or engagements with discourses of movement such as cosmopolitanism, globalism, or transience that persist in a single location (Farrer, ; Tseng, ; Walsh, ; Williamson, ). Ghosh and Wang () argued that their own transnational identities had developed through the migration act itself.…”

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Negotiating mobile identity in the global nightscape

Jankowski

2018

Population Space and Place

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Transnational and migrant identities have traditionally been theorised around axes of identity such as ethnicity or labour position; drawing on the mobilities paradigm and social geography, I discuss how representations of movement transform identity and life in the destination. This approach puts mobility at the core of transnational studies and elaborates on perspectives of space that span place to mobility. To investigate this, I conducted an ethnography in the nightlife district Lan Kwai Fong (LKF), Hong Kong. In LKF, transnational movement creates an expectation that life in Hong Kong will stand apart from home. This transforms LKF with the expectation that life is going to be better and more amazing than previously. Movement also creates the expectation of difference and novelty. Participants evaluated LKF on its merits as an exotic destination. In parallel, the curators of LKF aim to foster a sense of discovery, of finding somewhere new and different. Discovery validates movement as successful and distantiates subjects from place and into a spatial configuration of ephemerality and change. But for people living in Hong Kong, discovery has to be supplanted with a more permanent narrative of belonging without losing sight of mobility. New immobile subjects weave stories of mobility into their practices in LKF. They live mobile identities such as expatriate or exchange student, which keep the fantasy and spatial reality of mobility ongoing.

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“…In order to investigate migration temporalities, authors have implemented the time scales of migration (institutional, biographic, and everyday) to describe different levels of temporal orderings and events according to the conditions and contexts of migrants' life (e.g., suspended, ruptured, liminal, asynchronous, nomadic, and precarious temporalities; Axelsson, 2017; Cwerner, 2001; Griffiths, 2014; Robertson, 2014, 2019; Robertson & Ho, 2016). They have noticed that migration is a multidirectional and temporally contingent process subjected to accelerations, decelerations, suspensions, discontinuities, disruptions, and withdrawals (Cwerner, 2001; Hurd et al., 2016; Robertson, 2014, 2019) consisting of an intersection of various times which comprise future, past, and present (Cwerner, 2001; Hurd et al., 2016) and an interrelation of personal biographies, life courses, previous migrations, political practices, governance, and global economic systems (Çağlar & Glick Schiller 2018; Robertson, 2014, 2019; Robertson & Ho, 2016; Williamson, 2016).…”

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Space, time, and urban citizenship: Reconsidering migrant integration in critical social psychological research

Zisakou

Figgou

2021

Social & Personality Psych

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During the last decade critical social psychologists have developed an interest in studying locational dimensions of intergroup relations and temporal aspects of social identity. At the same time critical social psychological research on acculturation has emphatically stressed the dynamic and situated nature of the processes of migrant integration and/or exclusion. Building on these strands of research, the present paper argues that spatial/temporal aspects of migrant integration need to be further explored and their critical social psychological study could benefit by insights from the interdisciplinary field of urban studies. Specifically, the notion of urban citizenship can enable an actor‐centered, bottom‐up perspective in the research of integration, considering it as part of the process of “becoming local” rather than as a process of interaction between homogenous ethnic groups. Furthermore, emphasis on the local and temporal dimensions of appropriating (or being excluded from) urban/community resources can contribute to a multifaceted and situated dynamic approach to migration, to avoid reified conceptualizations of integration, to highlight the discontinuities and disruptions that characterize new mobilities and to question binary oppositions between receiving and sending societies and host and guest populations.

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Everyday space, mobile subjects and place-based belonging in suburban Sydney

Cited by 26 publications

References 37 publications

Unfamiliar rhythms and the micro-politics of late-modernity: An ethnography of global Hong Kong

Unfamiliar rhythms and the micro-politics of late-modernity: An ethnography of global Hong Kong

Negotiating mobile identity in the global nightscape

Space, time, and urban citizenship: Reconsidering migrant integration in critical social psychological research

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