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116589
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2012.
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Increasingly, the term 'desi' amongst British Asians has been commonly used to describe South Asian diasporic cultural forms and practices, particularly regarding musical genres and styles. This article opens up debate on its contested meanings and usage within the London Asian urban music scene. In unpacking the complex and contradictory meanings and uses of 'desi' across time, space and place, 'desiness' becomes exemplary of the ambivalent spaces of youthful diasporic identities in process. I argue that cultural practices, such as music production and consumption, provide critical tools to critique one-dimensional notions of 'Britishness' and 'Asianness', as well as to reassert normative notions of belonging and diaspora. The exploration of diasporic identities in the making within the spaces of London Asian cultural production highlights the importance of everyday forms and practices and fosters a better understanding of multiculture and new modes of belonging in London.
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123188
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2013.
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This article applies methods and concepts derived from a 'sensory turn' within the social sciences to a street market, popular with migrants to East London, to explore the socio-sensory processes through which convivial metropolitan multiculture is produced. Arguing against critiques of 'eating the other' and reductive accounts of cross-cultural interaction (assimilation, acculturation, boutique cosmopolitanism, etc.), this article hones a sensory attention on the market place and reveals the ways urbanites come to live with difference and, between them, develop metropolitan multicultures.
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123186
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2013.
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Three tower blocks and three low-rise blocks: nearly a hundred languages and over a hundred countries of origin. A council estate in a super-diverse neighbourhood is not only a space of concentrated difference and division, but also an intercultural space where new modes of living together emerge. At the same time, it is connected in an increasing number of ways with various outsides which make its internal space more complex. This article is based on a long-term collaborative research programme that included commissioned local policy research, academic ethnography and an artistic visual collaboration. It argues that multiple research strategies, including radically collaborative modes of inquiry, are required to represent the multiple, incommensurate perspectives co-present in the dense urban space of the estate.
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185327
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This article is based on analysis of narrative interviews with individuals active in local community work in the aftermath of the Grenfell Tower fire. It explores how the public spaces and buildings around the tower were claimed and shared by the community, first for emergency support and then for collective mourning, remembrance, worship, and activism. Applying the social psychology of community participation, the article elaborates place identity as a form of social identity and shows how participation functions to organise shared representations of local conditions and facilitate empowerment for social change. Further, the article posits that, in contexts of urban super-diversity, the shared use of local spaces, including faith spaces, generates new forms of belonging-in-multiculture that can become the basis for community development and collective struggle against racialised marginalisation.
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117880
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2013.
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In this contribution we provide a response to Ash Amin's account of the changing role of both growing multiculture and phenotypical racism in contemporary societies. We argue that it is important to bring the wider historical context of the present into any rounded analysis of the contemporary political debates about multiculture and race. Amin's account raises important theoretical and political issues that need to be explored from both a conceptual and empirical persepctive if we are to be able to better understand the present as well as develop a frame for making sense of the future.
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