This book 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. INDICE: 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 andthe 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 theneighbours' - 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
- ISBN: 978-0-230-21037-0
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 296
- Fecha Publicación: 16/07/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés