Everyday Multiculturalism

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. 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. 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. 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 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