AAG 2016 call for papers
Session title: Experiencing difference: contestations and negotiations over place in super-diverse neighborhoods
Organizers: Myrte Hoekstra & Fenne Pinkster (Universiteit van Amsterdam)
Living in cities today invariably means living among people who are different from oneself. The concept of super-diversity has been coined by Vertovec (2007) to capture the increasingly varied background of urban populations as a result of processes of international migration, individualization and social fragmentation. At a more micro level, attention has been paid to how this increasing diversity is experienced, negotiated and ‘lived out’ in different types of neighborhoods. Urban scholars have analyzed the ways in which shared understandings and narratives of place are created through social and political processes, and how they structure local power dynamics and struggles over space (see e.g. Leitner 2012, Madden 2014, Robertson and Colic-Peisker 2015, Valentine 2008, Wessendorf 2014). This session builds on such studies and focuses on everyday experiences of diversity at the local level and how diversity affects the ways in which neighborhood spaces and resources are used, claimed, contested or otherwise rendered meaningful by individual residents and by resident groups. We invite contributions that are situated at the interplay between diversity, place-making processes, and the politics of place.
We especially welcome papers that:
- look at diversity from multiple angles and/or the interaction between different manifestation of diversity
- explore the in/exclusionary practices that accompany community building processes in diverse neighborhoods
- consider a variety of actors including how institutional/policy actors deal with and respond to diversity at the local level
- focus on spaces of encounter in a wide range of neighborhoods in diverse geographical settings
Submission procedure:
Potential session participants should send an abstract of maximum 250 words to Myrte Hoekstra ([log in to unmask]) by Friday October 16th . Notification of acceptance will be sent by Friday October 23rd. Please note that participants are also expected to register and submit their abstracts through the AAG website themselves before Thursday October 29th.
References:
- Leitner, H. (2012). Spaces of encounters: Immigration, race, class, and the politics of belonging in small-town America.Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 102(4): 828-846.
- Madden, D.J. (2014). Neighborhood as spatial project: Making the urban order on the downtown Brooklyn waterfront.International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 38(2): 471-497.
- Robertson, S. and Colic-Peisker, V. (2015). Policy narratives versus everyday geographies: Perceptions of changing local space in Melbourne’s diverse North. City & Community, 14(1): 68-86.
- Valentine, G. (2008). Living with difference: Reflections on geographies of encounter. Progress in Human Geography,32(3): 323-337.
- Vertovec, S. (2007). Super-diversity and its implications. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 30(6): 1024-1054.
- Wessendorf, S. (2014). ‘Being open, but sometimes closed’. Conviviality in a super-diverse London neighbourhood.European Journal of Cultural Studies, 17(4): 392-405.
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