Main entry:

Fincher, Ruth, author.

Title & Author:

Everyday equalities : making multicultures in settler colonial cities / Ruth Fincher, Kurt Iveson, Helga Leitner, and Valerie Preston.

Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2019]
©2019

Description:

viii, 262 pages ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: everyday urban multicultures : encountering difference, enacting equality -- Encounters with difference in the urban everyday : a relational approach -- The political potential of encounters : being together in difference as equals -- Making a home in Melbourne -- Working for a living in Toronto -- Moving around the city in Sydney -- Making publics in Los Angeles -- Conclusion: towards a praxis of being together in difference as equals -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Summary:

If city life is a "being together of strangers," what forms of being together should we strive for in cities with ethnic and racial diversity? 'Everyday Equalities' seeks evidence of progressive political alternatives to racialized inequality that are emerging from everyday encounters in Los Angeles, Melbourne, Sydney, and Toronto--settler colonial cities that, established through efforts to dispossess and eliminate indigenous societies, have been destinations for waves of immigrants from across the globe ever since. 0'Everyday Equalities' finds such alternatives being developed as people encounter one another in the process of making a home, earning a living, moving around the city, and forming collective actions or communities. Here four leading scholars in critical urban geography come together to deliver a powerful and cohesive message about the meaning of equality in contemporary cities. Drawing on both theoretical reflection and urban ethnographic research, they offer the formulation "being together in difference as equals" as a normative frame to reimagine the meaning and pursuit of equality in today's urban multicultures. 0As the examples in 'Everyday Equalities' indicate, much emotional labor, combined with a willingness to learn from each other, negotiate across differences, and agitate for change goes into constructing environments that foster being together in difference as equals. Importantly, the authors argue, a commitment to equality is not only a hope for a future city but also a way of being together in the present.

ISBN:

9780816694631 hardcover alkaline paper
081669463X hardcover alkaline paper
9780816694648 paperback alkaline paper
0816694648 paperback alkaline paper
electronic book
9781452960081
1452960089

Subject:

Multiculturalism Case studies.
City planning Case studies.
Ethnicity Case studies.
Equality Case studies.
Sociology, Urban Case studies.
Multiculturalisme Études de cas.
Ethnicité Études de cas.
Sociologie urbaine Études de cas.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General.
City planning.
Equality.
Ethnicity.
Multiculturalism.
Sociology, Urban.

Form/genre:

Case studies.
Études de cas.

Added entries:

Iveson, Kurt, author.
Leitner, Helga, author.
Preston, Valerie (Valerie Ann), author.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 306302
Call No.: BIB 251917
Status: Available