[URBANTH-L]New book: EVERYDAY MULTICULTURALISM

[Martha Radice]

Dear colleagues,
The recent announcement of the book 'Beyond Multiculturalism' reminded me to
announce the publication of the book 'Everyday Multiculturalism', whose
chapters are also based on urban ethnography - it will be interesting to
compare them!
Thanks,
Martha Radice

Wise, Amanda and Selvaraj Velayutham (eds.) (2009) Everyday
Multiculturalism. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

This book explores everyday lived experiences of multiculturalism in the
contemporary world. Drawing on place-based case studies, chapters in the
collection focus on encounters and interactions across cultural difference
in super-diverse cities to explore what it means to inhabit multiculturalism
in our everyday lives. The book discusses intercultural embodiment, senses
and habitus, interethnic solidarity and cultural exchange, everyday racism,
multiculturalism and food, micro-publics, and the politics of place sharing.
Sites of inter-ethnic encounter explored include shopping and street
markets, gyms, community gardens, neighbouring, and sport. Interweaving
ethnography and contemporary social and cultural theoretical approaches from
disciplines such as sociology, cultural geography, anthropology and cultural
studies, the collection features case studies from the UK, Europe,
Australia, the US, and Asia.

Contents:
Introduction: The Study of Everyday Multiculturalism; A.Wise & S.Velayutham
PART I: NEIGHBOURHOODS
Everyday Multiculturalism: Transversal Crossings and Working Class
Cosmopolitans; A.Wise
Everyday Cosmopolitanism and the Labour of Intercultural Community; G.Noble
Practices of Difference: Analysing Multiculturalism in Everyday Life;
G.Semi,
E.Colombo, I.Camozzi & A.Frisina
PART II: FOOD
Kopitiam: Discursive Cosmopolitan Spaces and National Identity in Malaysian
Culture
and Media; G.Cheng Khoo
Eating at the Borders: Culinary Journeys; J.Duruz
PART III: SHOPPING
Brief Encounters of an Unpredictable Kind: Everyday Multiculturalism in Two
London
Street Markets; S.Watson
Street-level Cosmopolitanism: Neighbourhood Shopping Streets in Multiethnic
Montréal; M.Radice
PART IV: LEISURE
The Colour of Muscle: Multiculturalism at a Brooklyn Bodybuilding Gym;
J.Sherman
Fishing the Georges River: Cultural Diversity and Urban Environments;
H.Goodall,
S.Wearing, D.Byrne & A.Cadzow
PART V: EVERYDAY SOLIDARITIES, EVERYDAY POLITICS
'Rubbing along with the neighbours' - Everyday Interactions in a Diverse
Neighbourhood in the North of England; M.Hudson, J.Phillips & K.Ray
Volunteering, Social Networks, Contact Zones and Rubbish: The Case of the
'Korean
Volunteer Team'; F.Leo Collins
PART VI: EVERYDAY TENSIONS
We Both Eat Rice, But That's About It: Korean and Latino Relations in
Multi-ethnic
Los Angeles; C.Han
Everyday Racism in Singapore; S.Velayutham


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Martha Radice
Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology
Dalhousie University
6135 University Avenue
Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3H 4P9
902.494.6747
martha.radice at dal.ca
http://sociologyandsocialanthropology.dal.ca

Research Affiliate, Atlantic Metropolis Centre: Citizenship and Social,
Cultural and Civic Integration domain
http://www.atlantic.metropolis.net