Everyday multiculturalism
By: edited by Amanda Wise and Selvaraj Velayutham
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9780230210370
Subjects: Multiculturalism; Cultural pluralism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 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; title: 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; title: 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; title: 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; title: 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; title: 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.