Situational Diversity : Understanding Modes of Migration-Driven Differentiation in Urban Neighbourhoods

At a time when diversity is taking an increasingly prominent place in public and academic debate, __Situational Diversity__ offers a new perspective by understanding diversity framed in the local context, characterised through different forms of social differentiation. Based on ethnographic fieldwork and archival research on migration-driven diversity in two neighbourhoods in Stuttgart (Germany) and Glasgow (United Kingdom), the book presents a concept that takes into account the contingent and emergent nature of social differentiation while at the same time explaining the stability of modes of differentiation. The comparative approach provides a nuanced analysis of how diversity in urban environments occurs as a result of locally, socially and temporally specific practices. In this book, Klückmann discusses how social work, city administration and volunteer work prefigure positions and relations of people in the context of migration. Thus, it will appeal to students and scholars of social and cultural anthropology, European ethnology, sociology, human/cultural geography, cultural studies in addition to practitioners in the fields of intercultural relations, social and public policy as well as urban development. At a time when diversity is taking an increasingly prominent place in public and academic debate, Situational Diversity offers a new perspective by understanding diversity framed in the local context, characterised through different forms of social differentiation. Based on ethnographic fieldwork and archival research on migration-driven diversity in two neighbourhoods in Stuttgart (Germany) and Glasgow (United Kingdom), the book presents a concept that takes into account the contingent and emergent nature of social differentiation while at the same time explaining the stability of modes of differentiation. The comparative approach provides a nuanced analysis of how diversity in urban environments occurs as a result of locally, socially and temporally specific practices. In this book, Klückmann discusses how social work, city administration and volunteer work prefigure positions and relations of people in the context of migration. Thus, it will appeal to students and scholars of social and cultural anthropology, European ethnology, sociology, human/cultural geography, cultural studies in addition to practitioners in the fields of intercultural relations, social and public policy as well as urban development.-- Provided by publisher Front Matter ....Pages i-xvii Introduction: Exploring an Elephant (Matthias Klückmann)....Pages 1-33 Situational Diversity (Matthias Klückmann)....Pages 35-76 Knowledge Production/Transfer (Matthias Klückmann)....Pages 77-100 Exploring (Matthias Klückmann)....Pages 101-126 Creating Presence (Matthias Klückmann)....Pages 127-163 Supporting (Matthias Klückmann)....Pages 165-191 Situational Modes of Differentiation (Matthias Klückmann)....Pages 193-214 Conclusion (Matthias Klückmann)....Pages 215-220 Back Matter ....Pages 221-226