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In The Mosque Conflict in Catalonia: Space, Culture, and
Capitalism, Martin Lundsteen examines two paradigms around mosque
conflicts-one of an analytical nature and the other of a
political-technical nature. Lundsteen argues that both paradigms
interpret conflicts culturally, as originating primarily in the
symbolic realm. Though racism and xenophobia are certainly at the
core of the issue, Lundsteen shows through the study of the
conflict surrounding the mosque project in Premia de Mar
(Barcelona) that other dimensions of utmost importance lurk behind
these interpretations. This book constitutes an anthropological
approach to the intersection of local-global processes of
contemporary capitalism and emphasizes the understudied
socio-spatial dimension of these conflicts.
While Convivencia is a specific historical term that has come to
represent an idea of peaceful co-existence, Convivencia: Urban
Space and Migration in a Small Catalan Town complicates this
simplistic vision. Instead, it shows how convivencia has been and
is indeed always conflict-ridden by scrutinising the relations
between cultural diversity and social conflicts and considering why
some social conflicts are said to be inherently cultural. It does
this through a multi-scalar extended case study of a small town in
Northern Catalonia, Spain. Starting from an ethnography, it sheds
light on the multiple local-global processes inherent to the social
construction of the "migrant problem" and its solutions. The book
analyzes the simultaneously local-global transformation of
migration and societies, connecting the local processes of space-
and place-making in Salt with the more extensive processes of
migration, economic crisis and social transformation, and finally,
the responses to these changes from the local society,
institutions, and NGOs. This work allows for a deeper understanding
of the complex web of urban, social, and political transformation
in which migration as a phenomenon takes part. Focusing mainly on
the interaction between mobility and settlement and the
socio-cultural processes at different scales through the vectors of
production and reproduction of space, it advances findings on the
"new social question in Europe."
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