Unpacking Intercultural Conviviality in Multiethnic Commercial Streets

Radice, Martha

doi:10.4324/9781315145709-2

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“…Although Gilroy launched the concept of conviviality, we follow the model of intercultural conviviality developed by Martha Radice (2016), who studied conviviality in multi-ethnic streets through four constituent layers to grasp both the practical and discursive modes of emplaced social activities and exchanges. These four components include microplaces, codes of sociability, perceived intergroup relations and place image.…”

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The Rise of the Common City

Lijster¹,

Gielen²

2022

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During the 21 st century the city became a cultural factory. The urban environment acts as a magnet for artists, creative professionals and cognitive workers. The city not only offers them inspiration but also more professional opportunities for work and assignments. The high density of cultural institutions, cafés, creative hubs, and other 'places to be' provide freelancing creatives with the necessary networking opportunities to stay on the job. It was sociologist Richard Florida who at the turn of the millennium pointed to a new social segment of creative workers as a driving engine for economic growth. Cities who manage to attract the creative, artistic, bohemian type, one reads in The Rise of the Creative Class, will thrive economically. The link with deliberately gentrified 'cultural quarters' becomes significant.However, this urban working environment also means that the boundaries between private and public life, friends and colleagues, leisure time and work become particularly cloudy. Moreover, the capitalisation of culture generates cutting competition between creative professionals and friends, between artists and lovers. In other words, the creative city is also a crabs' basket that threatens sustainable creativity and thus the dynamics of a culture. The consequences are now well-known. From burnout on an individual level to gentrification that makes the city unaffordable for creatives: the creative engine starts to sputter. Today, the creative city appears to be biting its own tail.Hence this volume's rationale: in direct contrast with Florida's rise of the creative class, we explore the rise of the common city. Following from the research project Sustainable Creativity in the Post-Fordist City, carried out by the Culture Commons Quest Office (CCQO, Antwerp Research Institute for the Arts, University of Antwerp -FWO-Odysseus) between 2016 and 2021, we investigate in this book whether culture can play a role other than an economic one. We do this, among other things, by declaring culture as common again, as an initially and fundamentally shared good, that in fact can be used and made by everyone for free. Inspired

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The Rise of the Common City

Lijster¹,

Gielen²

2022

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“…Similarly, Dutch residents without migration backgrounds living in dense four-story buildings have been found to feel less threatened by ethnic diversity than people living in suburbs characterized by larger housing blocks (Crul, Steinmetz, and Lelie 2020). Research has also pointed out that street furniture in public spaces such as benches or bus shelters can facilitate positive group interactions (Radice 2016).…”

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“…The micro-setting, that is, the level of everyday life encounters such as in restaurants, cafes, or public transport stations, is rarely studied. A rich social sciences tradition shows that contextual diversity in spaces, such as associations (Van der Meer 2016), schools (Janmaat 2015), leisure (Schaeffer 2013), consumption (Radice 2016), the workplace (Kokkonen, Esaiasson, and Gilljam 2015), or social organizations (Achbari 2015), provides important meeting opportunities for people of different backgrounds. Based on the contact theory framework, research has argued that regular exposure enhances knowledge about the outgroup, reduces anxiety about intergroup contact, increases empathy, and facilitates general trust (e.g., Hewstone 2003; Stephan and Stephan 2000; Pettigrew and Tropp 2008).…”

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Urban Space and Social Cognition: The Effect of Urban Space on Intergroup Perceptions

Knipprath¹,

Crul²,

Waldring³

et al. 2021

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Scie

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Cities and neighborhoods are key sites of migration-related diversity. Differences in lifestyle, class, ethnicity, or religion become visible in urban spaces, such as neighborhood bars, shops, or cafes. This article applies a social cognitive approach to explore how urban spaces shape the relationship between ethnic encounters and intergroup perceptions. Theoretical work on urbanism suggests that public and private spaces have different effects on people’s perceptions of group interdependence and relative group status. This article contributes to the ongoing debate between conflict and contact schools of thought by defining how contextual conditions promote ethnic diversity’s positive or negative effects on intergroup perceptions.

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“…Second, these authors emphasize the conviviality that proximity along with the interactions and convergence in cultures that it sometimes results in. Such conviviality, it is argued, can obviate hostility toward proximate migrants (Radice 2016;Crush, Ramachandran, & Pendleton 2013:47). Finally, the greater legibility of migrants that proximity permits is cast in a positive light as obviating the uncertainty over others and what they represent that geographical distance often breeds.…”

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Xenophobia’s Contours During an Ebola Epidemic: Proximity and the Targeting of Peul Migrants in Senegal

Onoma¹

2019

Afr. Stud. Rev.

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Abstract:This article examines the effect of geographical proximity on targeting patterns during Ebola-era xenophobic outbursts by Senegalese against a migrant Peul population of Guinean origins. It highlights the limited extent to which epidemics shape the micro-dynamics of outbreaks of xenophobia during public health crises, demonstrating that epidemics are not defining events that inflect inter-group relations. They mostly reinforce long-persisting patterns of exclusion. The conclusion is that the contours of xenophobia in contexts marked by public health crises and in those situations in which these issues of public health do not constitute a major concern tend to mirror each other.

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Unpacking Intercultural Conviviality in Multiethnic Commercial Streets

Cited by 6 publications

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The Rise of the Common City

The Rise of the Common City

Urban Space and Social Cognition: The Effect of Urban Space on Intergroup Perceptions

Xenophobia’s Contours During an Ebola Epidemic: Proximity and the Targeting of Peul Migrants in Senegal

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