How can we learn from a multicultural society if we don't know
how to recognise it? The contemporary city is more than ever a
space for the intense convergence of diverse individuals who shift
in and out of its urban terrains. The city street is perhaps the
most prosaic of the city's public parts, allowing us a view of the
very ordinary practices of life and livelihoods. By attending to
the expressions of conviviality and contestation, 'City, Street and
Citizen' offers an alternative notion of 'multiculturalism' away
from the ideological frame of nation, and away from the moral
imperative of community. This book offers to the reader an account
of the lived realities of allegiance, participation and belonging
from the base of a multi-ethnic street in south London.
'City, Street and Citizen' focuses on the question of whether
local life is significant for how individuals develop skills to
live with urban change and cultural and ethnic diversity. To
animate this question, Hall has turned to a city street and its
dimensions of regularity and propinquity to explore interactions in
the small shop spaces along the Walworth Road. The city street
constitutes exchange, and as such it provides us with a useful
space to consider the broader social and political significance of
contact in the day-to-day life of multicultural cities.
Grounded in an ethnographic approach, this book will be of
interest to academics and students in the fields of sociology,
global urbanisation, migration and ethnicity as well as being
relevant to politicians, policy makers, urban designers and
architects involved in cultural diversity, public space and street
based economies.
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