Title & Author:

Everyday multiculturalism / edited by Amanda Wise and Selvaraj Velayutham.

Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

Description:

xiv, 282 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
PART 1. NEIGHBOURHOODS: 1. Everyday multiculturalism: Transversal crossing and working class cosmopolitans / Amanda Wise ; 2. Everyday cosmopolitanism and the labour of intercultural community / Greg Noble ; 3. Practices of difference: Analysing multiculturalism in everyday life / Giovanni Semi, Enzo Colombo, Ilenya Camozzi and Annalisa Frisina -- PART 2. FOOD: 4. Kopitiam: Discursive cosmopolitan spaces and national identity in Malaysian culture and media / Gaik Cheng Khoo ; 5. Eating at the borders: culinary journeys / Jean Duruz -- PART 3. SHOPPING: 6. Brief encounters of an unpredictable kind: Everyday multiculturalism in two London street markets / Sophie Watson ; 7. Street-level cosmopolitanism: Neghbourhood shopping streets in multi-ethnic Montreal / Martha Radice -- PART 4. LEISURE: 8. The colour of muscle: Multiculturalism at a Brooklyn bodybuilding gym / Jamie Sherman ; 9. Fishing the Georges River: Cultural diversity and urban environments / Heather Goodall, Stephen Wearing, Denis Byrne and Allison Cadzow -- PART 5. EVERYDAY SOLIDARITIES, EVERYDAY POLITICS: 10. 'Rubbing along with the neighbours': Everyday interactions in a diverse neighbourhood in the North of England / Maria Hudson, Joan Phillips and Kathryn Ray ; 11. Volunteering, social networks, contact zones and rubbish: The case of the 'Korean Volunteer Team' / Francis Leo Collins -- PART 6. EVERYDAY TENSIONS: 12. We both eat rice, but that's about it: Korean and Latino relations in multi-ethnic Los Angeles / Chong-suk Han ; 13. Everyday racism in Singapore / Selvaraj Velayutham.
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Summary:

This work 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.

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ISBN:

9780230210370
0230210376
9780230244474 (eBook)
0230244475

Subject:

Multiculturalism.
Cultural pluralism.
Cultural Diversity
Multiculturalisme.
Diversité culturelle.
multiculturalism.
Multikulturelle Gesellschaft
Interaktion
Alltag
Racism.

Added entries:

Wise, Amanda.
Velayutham, Selvaraj, 1968-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 295682
Call No.: BIB 242040
Status: Available