Diversity, neighbourhood and intersectionality: Conceptualising urban practices of living together
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This paper drawing on collaborative research in Southwark, South London, as part of the Concordia Discors and Intersecting Diversities projects outlines some of the ways in which new patterns of diversity are reshaping old and new contact zones in the city, resonating with the recent academic turn to diversity and conviviality. The paper attempts to move beyond the conceptualisation currently offered by the diversity/conviviality perspective to emphasise the role of spatial form, the role of the state (in a context of rising inequalities and welfare state restructuring), and a more thoroughly intersectional analysis. It concludes with some speculation on how this account might be re-visited from a psychosocial perspective.
Ben Gidley has just started as a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck, after nearly six years at the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society at Oxford. His research includes ethnographic work on urban politics and urban multiculture (mostly in South East London, but also in comparative European contexts) and archival research on Jewish migration in East London.
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