Everyday Multiculturalism

by Wise, Amanda; Velayutham, Selvaraj

• ISBN13: 9780230210370
• ISBN10: 0230210376
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-08-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This book explores everyday lived experiences of multiculturalism in the contemporary world. Drawing on place-based case studies, contributions focus on encounters and interactions across cultural difference in super-diverse cities to explore what it means to inhabit multiculturalism in our everyday lives.

Author Biography

AMANDA WISE is Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Research on Social Inclusion at Macquarie University, Australia.
 
SELVARAJ VELAYUTHAM is Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Macquarie University, Australia.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Study of Everyday Multiculturalism

Neighbourhoods Everyday Multiculturalism: Transversal Crossings and Working Class Cosmopolitans

Everyday Cosmopolitanism and the Labour of Intercultural Community

Practices of Difference: Analysing Multiculturalism in Everyday Life

Food Kopitiam: Discursive Cosmopolitan Spaces and National Identity in Malaysian Culture and Media

Eating at the Borders: Culinary Journeys

Shopping Brief Encounters of an unpredictable kind: Everyday Multiculturalism in two London street markets

Street-level Cosmopolitanism: Neighbourhood Shopping Streets in Multiethnic Montral

Leisure The Colour of Muscle: Multiculturalism at a Brooklyn Bodybuilding Gym

Fishing the Georges River: Cultural Diversity and Urban Environments

Everyday Solidarities, Everyday Politics Rubbing along with the neighbours - Everyday interactions in a diverse neighbourhood in the North of England

Volunteering, Social Networks, Contact Zones and Rubbish: The Case of the Korean Volunteer Team

Everyday Tensions We Both Eat Rice, But That's About It: Korean and Latino Relations in Multi-ethnic Los Angeles

Everyday Racism in Singapore

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