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City, Street and Citizen - The Measure of the Ordinary (Paperback)
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City, Street and Citizen - The Measure of the Ordinary (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Advances in Ethnography
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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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