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Making a place in footscray: everyday multiculturalism, ethnic hubs and segmented geography / Oke, Nicole; Sonn, Christopher C; McConville, Christopher

Oke, Nicole	Journal Article
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In this article, we explore through analyses of interviews the meanings and experiences of everyday multiculturalism in a suburb in Melbourne, Australia. The people we interviewed valued and experienced diversity in different, yet interrelated ways: as an experience of multiculturalism, as providing comfort in diversity and as embodied in ethnic hubs in a segmented geography. Everyday racism can make forging belonging and connections across diverse ethnic groups difficult. Yet, Footscray is constructed as a place in which diversity is regarded as normative and protective. Our focus on a local suburb has allowed us to develop insight into the diverse ways identities are constituted through multiple understandings and experiences of diversity.

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Ethnic Group ; Belonging ; Place - Making ; Everyday Multiculturalis ; Footscray

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Towards a real sustainable agri-food security and food policy: beyond the ecological fallacies? / Marsden, Terry

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2012.

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The recent rises in food prices represent the 'tip of the iceberg' and a 'canary in the mine' moment for world agriculture. They are underlain by a continuing 'race to the bottom' and speculative process whereby systems of resource production and exploitation are continuing to rely upon 'infinite supply' assumptions and narrow technological solutions to 'feeding the world'. I argue here that these conditions are leading to a dominant policy framing that tends to marginalise diverse and place-based agro-ecological systems by creating a new legitimacy for bio-economic rather than eco-economic solutions. Government and policy-making bodies need to redefine and widen their approaches to agriculture and agri-food in ways that recognise its social, cultural, political and spatially diverse contribution in a post-carbon world.

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Sustainability ; Agri - Food ; Place - Making ; Eco - Economy ; Bio - Economy

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