[csaa-forum] launch Everyday Multiculturalism

[Gregory Noble]

Invitation....



TO THE LAUNCH OF



EVERYDAY MULTICULTURALISM

Amanda Wise & Selvaraj Velayutham (Eds)

Published by Palgrave 2009


To be launched by

Ghassan Hage

Future Generation Professor, University of Melbourne


When: Friday 16 October

Time: 6pm for 6:30pm

Where: Gleebooks

Upstairs, 191 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe NSW


RSVP: Gleebooks  - Ph 02 9660 2333
www.gleebooks.com.au/events


EVERYDAY MULTICULTURALISM

This book explores everyday lived experiences of multiculturalism in the contemporary world. Drawing on place-based case studies essays 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. Chapters explore themes such as 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. The collection will make informative reading for those interested in current debates around multiculturalism, racism, community cohesion and integration.

ABOUT THE EDITORS

Selvaraj Velayutham is a lecturer in Sociology in the Department of Sociology, Macquarie University. His research interests are in the areas of migration, multiculturalism and sociology of culture and everyday life. He is the author of 'Responding to Globalisation: Nation, Culture and Identity in Singapore'; editor of 'Tamil Cinema: The Cultural Politics of India's Other Film Industry' and co-editor (with Melissa Butcher) of 'Dissent and Cultural Resistance in Asia's Cities'.

Amanda Wise is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Research on Social Inclusion, Macquarie University. She has researched and published on everyday multiculturalism, transnational communities, and refugee studies. She is author of 'Exile and Return Among the Timorese'.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction: The Study of Everyday Multiculturalism; A. Wise &--S. Velayutham

PART ONE: NEIGHBOURHOODS

Everyday Multiculturalism: Transversal Crossings and Working Class Cosmopolitans; A. Wise

Everyday Cosmopolitanism and the Labour of Intercultural Community; G. Noble

Practices of Difference: Analysing Multiculturalism in Everyday Life;  G. Semi, E. Colombo, I. Camozzi &--A. Frisina

PART TWO: 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 THREE: SHOPPING

Brief Encounters of an unpredictable kind: Everyday Multiculturalism in two London street markets; S. Watson

Street-level Cosmopolitanism: Neighbourhood Shopping Streets in Multiethnic Montreal; M. Radice

PART FOUR: 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 FIVE: EVERYDAY SOLIDARITIES, EVERYDAY POLITICS

Rubbing along with the neighbours - 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 SIX: 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

 
Greg Noble
Associate Professor
The Centre for Cultural Research
University of Western Sydney
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Co-author of 'Bin Laden in the Suburbs' (Sydney Institute of Criminology, 2004)