“The happiest city in England” Brighton’s narratives of diversity between “success stories” and sidelined issues

Mazzilli, Caterina

doi:10.1080/01419870.2020.1823449

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“…Attitudes towards immigration in Brighton & Hove are varied. Mazzilli (2020) argues that although Brighton & Hove has a liberal approach to gender identity and sexuality (the city has been described as the 'gay capital' of Europe and the UK), local government has a selective understanding of 'diversity' and often ignores racism. In the EU referendum, 68.6 per cent of the local population voted 'Remain' and 31.4 per cent voted 'Leave'.…”

Section: Seaview Schoolmentioning

confidence: 99%

Peer Relationships at School

Soye

2024

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Available Open Access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This book draws on ethnographic research in two UK secondary schools, considering the shifting roles of migration status, language, ethnicity, religion and precarity in young people’s peer relationships. The book challenges culturalist understandings of social cohesion, highlighting the divisive impacts of neoliberalism, from pervasive temporariness and domestic abuse to technologization and neighbourhood violence. Using Martin Buber’s relational model, the book explores the interplay of ‘I-It’ boundary-making with reciprocal ‘I-Thou’ encounters, pointing to the creative power of these encounters to subvert, reimagine, and even transform social difference. The author provides a pragmatic and ultimately hopeful view of the dynamics of diversity in everyday life, offering valuable insights for social policy and practice.

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Section: Seaview Schoolmentioning

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Soye

2024

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“…Its seafront remains a popular attraction for visitors from London and elsewhere. Caterina Mazzilli's work shows how Brighton and Hove Council uses an image of the city as ‘liberal’ and ‘inclusive’ to attract visitors (2021). Many residents also articulate this view, and evidence cited includes the city's relatively large and well‐established LGBTQ+ communities, its annual Pride celebrations, and the election of the UK's first Green Member of Parliament in 2010.…”

Section: Brighton and Hove And The Three Community Organisationsmentioning

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Hope as a practice in the face of existential crises: Resident‐activist research within and beyond the academy

Clarke,

Rogaly,

Senker

2024

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Is it foolish to talk or write about hope in the face of widespread existential crises? Our answer is ‘no’. On the contrary, hope is more necessary the bleaker things become. In this article, we explore hope as a practice. Influenced by the abolition geography of Ruth Wilson Gilmore, we build on John Holloway's argument that such practices start from ourselves, where we are and our own capacities, and overflow that which contains us. We write as resident‐activists within three community organisations in the place we live in. Extending existing geographical literature, we show how our resident‐activism is distinct from, yet also entangled with, scholar‐activism and the struggles, contradictions and potential solidarities found in the UK's marketised universities. This way of working can itself be seen as a practice of hope. The article further explores practices of hope that emerge within the three organisations. Though emplaced, these practices are not confined in space or time, drawing rather on history as a resource and connecting with broader national and international processes. The article concludes by using Holloway's concept of rage‐joy to bring together practices of hope across the three organisations and among us as resident‐activists and participants in industrial action over pay, casualisation, workloads, equalities and pensions in UK universities. The result is a capacity to see the human in each other, a necessary step in resisting resurgent fascist politics and addressing existential crises.

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“…In this respect, diversity discourse appears to depoliticise representations of socio-structural differences (Andersen, 1999;Simon-Kumar, 2014;Zanoni et al, 2010), an effect that many scholars see as the main reason for the wide-scale diffusion of diversity discourse across institutions (e.g., Cooper, 2004;DiTomaso, 2021;Edelman et al, 2001). A related critique points out that celebrations of diversity may reassure dominant groups and cultural majorities (Doytcheva, 2020;Thomas, 2018), and selectively promote certain minorities (as by gender and sexual orientation) rather than others (as by race and religion; see Doytcheva, 2020;Mazzilli, 2021). Thus, a strand of theory and research in social sciences suggests that diversity itself may be an active ideological concept rather than a neutral synonym to social and cultural heterogeneity, as the bulk of social psychological work on the topic assumes.…”

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Lay representations of diversity: Questioning assumptions about categorical differences and social inequality

Diamanti

Iatridis

Kadianaki

2022

Community & Applied Soc Psy

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Despite social psychology's emphasis on “diversity,” social psychological research on lay representations of diversity is pending. Capitalising on a string of critical diversity studies in other disciplines and based on social representations theory, this article presents a qualitative study on how lay Greek people interviewed about the meaning of diversity understand and use this term in talk. Our reflexive thematic analysis identified certain semantic tensions regarding the forms and value of diversity, which directly speak to findings in other cultural contexts and question the assumingly palliative effect of diversity on intergroup relations and social inequality. We suggest that the ideological input of this powerful concept be addressed rather than considering diversity a descriptive term or a self‐evident end in itself.

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“The happiest city in England” Brighton’s narratives of diversity between “success stories” and sidelined issues

Cited by 8 publications

References 27 publications

Peer Relationships at School

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Hope as a practice in the face of existential crises: Resident‐activist research within and beyond the academy

Lay representations of diversity: Questioning assumptions about categorical differences and social inequality

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