Sensuous Multiculturalism: Emotional Landscapes of Inter-Ethnic Living in Australian Suburbia

Wise, Amanda

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“…The importance, for example, of 'bodily habitus' in feelings of (dis)comfort and (not)belonging as people interact in spaces with cultural others. The 'failed encounters' between Anglo-Celts and Chinese immigrants as a result of differing emotional 'grammars' and 'geographies' described by Wise (2010) Just as physical co-presence, sensorial co-presence remains insufficient in and of itself and insufficiently problematized and related to wider ranging factors. As such, many of the conclusions presented remain over-romanticized potentialities.…”

Section: Sensorial Contactmentioning

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Multiculturalism, interculturalism, ‘multiculture’ and super-diversity: Of zombies, shadows and other ways of being

Sealy

2018

Ethnicities

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Multiculturalism has increasingly become challenged and outcast, whether directly or summarily, as theoretically useful or empirically valid. This has come prominently from three corners: interculturalism, ‘everyday’ multiculturalism or ‘multiculture’ and super-diversity, in all of which the zombieness of multiculturalism is seen to be mutually reassured. Nevertheless, there are significant short comings that have not been thoroughly addressed and considered. In this article, I offer a thoroughgoing engagement with and critique of these bodies of work, identifying their points of convergence and divergence, the underlying principles in their relation to multiculturalism and suggesting how they fall short, often of their own goals, in multiple and significant ways. I argue that the cosmopolitan individualism they wish to celebrate ignores the fact of power relations, inequality, conflict and the necessity of politics. The micro-level ‘solutions’ offered, I suggest, do not provide a substitute for a macro-level multiculturalism. Moreover, the conceptualisations of identity also do not stand up to scrutiny. This, I interrogate with a particular reference to religious identity to indicate the shortcomings in these literatures. I propose instead that not only is multiculturalism not the zombie it is claimed but also that it continues to offer better critical resources than its challengers.

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Section: Sensorial Contactmentioning

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Multiculturalism, interculturalism, ‘multiculture’ and super-diversity: Of zombies, shadows and other ways of being

Sealy

2018

Ethnicities

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“…This perspective focuses on how diversity is experienced and negotiated in everyday situations such as the neighbourhood or the school, and how through these everyday encounters identities and social relations are produced and reproduced (Wise 2008). This perspective is different from the traditional approach to multiculturalism, which is mainly policy-oriented and focused on group-based rights, service provision and legislation (Wise 2008).…”

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‘You shouldn't blame religion … but the person’ – the ethnic boundary work of young second-generation migrants in Rotterdam

Visser

2016

Children's Geographies

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In the Netherlands, as in most other western European countries, the desirability and the governability of a multicultural society are topics of debate. In the last decade, this debate has increasingly centred on second-generation migrants, focusing on their high rates of crime and school drop-out. In the Dutch context, however, little scholarly research has paid attention to second-generation migrants' own experiences. In this paper, I therefore focus on the perceptions of ethnic boundaries held by 12-to 19-year-old second-generation migrants and how they negotiate these boundaries in the low-income, multi-ethnic Feijenoord area of Rotterdam. The study shows that young people are used to living together with many different cultures and see themselves as being on both sides of the ethnic boundary between the Dutch-majority society and the culture of their parents. However, they also encounter prejudice and discrimination in their day-to-day lives, which calls into question the success of multiculturalism.

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“…Instead, everyday multiculturalism or the challenges of living with and negotiating difference, have been explored in large immigrant-receiving cities such as Sydney and Melbourne (Dunn and Nelson, 2011;Hage, 2010;Shaw, 2007;Wise, 2010). These studies have been valuable in exposing the cultural politics of emotion, the prevalence of white privilege, everyday racism and the displacement of indigenous peoples.…”

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“…Rather than conceptualising space as a container for moving bodies, the focus is on affective spacetimes that are relational, processual, fragile, open to change and explored through more-than-human modes of enquiry (Lorimer, 2010;McCormack, 2013;Whatmore, 2006). However, it is the focus on emotional relationships central to feminist geographies of encounter and place-sharing that provide the potential to think about friendship as the entangling of the differentiated body-subject who inhabits these affective socio-spatial worlds, both proximate and distant (Ahmed, 2007;Amin, 2012;Fincher and Shaw, 2011;Lobo, 2010Lobo, , 2014bTolia-Kelly and Crang, 2010;Wise, 2010). The paper suggests that affective forces of hatred, fear and misunderstanding that circulate in the city, facilitated by a global geopolitics, can begin to be realigned through fragile friendships in local community spaces.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Such a focus can be attributed to marked changes in the ethnoreligious composition of cities, the scale and complexity of global migration, and shifts in migration patterns in the last 30 years, or what Meissner and Vertovec (2015) term superdiversity. While such diversity provides cities with economic and cultural benefits, the allegiances, loyalties, faith-affiliated networks and emotional attachments of ethnic/ racial minorities (local and overseas-born) make them suspect (Amin, 2012;Hage, 1998;Wise, 2010). When such suspicion resonates as fear in the 'collective unconscious' (Amin, 2012: 63) bodies of colour become 'stress points' (Ahmed, 2007: 160), and the opportunities for fleeting encounters and inter-ethnic/inter-racial friendships in public spaces of the city are limited.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Re-framing the creative city: Fragile friendships and affective art spaces in Darwin, Australia

Lobo

2017

Urban Studies

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Australia has one of the most urbanised and diverse populations in the world, but there is little research that explores fleeting friendships between marginalised/racialised ethnic minority and indigenous populations. In contrast to metropolitan cities in white settler societies that have been the focus of much research, this paper focuses on the small, tropical city of Darwin in Northern Australia. This is a city that is at the centre of public debates on indigenous wellbeing, migrant integration and asylum seeker policies, with social welfare programmes that provide little opportunities for hopeful encounters among indigenous peoples and ethnic minority newcomers in surface spaces. I argue, however, that 'grass root' forms of creativity in an 'underground' car park bring their affective worlds together through a shared passion for art. The paper draws on gentle methodologies including participatory visual methods to privilege non-Western ways of inhabiting place. Through a 'quiet politics' and affective engagement with spacetimes both proximate and distant, the paper shows that it is possible to invoke different futures and crystallise experimental publics in the diverse city. The paper responds to a call to push the boundaries of urban research on social difference through geographies of friendship that are yet to engage with multisensory bodies, emotion, affect and art.

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Sensuous Multiculturalism: Emotional Landscapes of Inter-Ethnic Living in Australian Suburbia

Cited by 166 publications

References 23 publications

Multiculturalism, interculturalism, ‘multiculture’ and super-diversity: Of zombies, shadows and other ways of being

Multiculturalism, interculturalism, ‘multiculture’ and super-diversity: Of zombies, shadows and other ways of being

‘You shouldn't blame religion … but the person’ – the ethnic boundary work of young second-generation migrants in Rotterdam

Re-framing the creative city: Fragile friendships and affective art spaces in Darwin, Australia

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