Everyday Multiculturalism

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Introduction: Multiculturalism and Everyday Life

   1. Introduction: Multiculturalism and Everyday Life

      • Amanda Wise, Selvaraj Velayutham

      Pages 1-17

3. Neighbourhoods

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19

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   2. Everyday Multiculturalism: Transversal Crossings and Working Class Cosmopolitans

      • Amanda Wise

      Pages 21-45

   3. Everyday Cosmopolitanism and the Labour of Intercultural Community

      • Greg Noble

      Pages 46-65

   4. Practices of Difference: Analysing Multiculturalism in Everyday Life

      • Giovanni Semi, Enzo Colombo, Ilenya Camozzi, Annalisa Frisina

      Pages 66-84

4. Food

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 85-85

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   2. Kopitiam: Discursive Cosmopolitan Spaces and National Identity in Malaysian Culture and Media

      • Gaik Cheng Khoo

      Pages 87-104

   3. Eating at the Borders: Culinary Journeys

      • Jean Duruz

      Pages 105-121

5. Shopping

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 123-123

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   2. Brief Encounters of an Unpredictable Kind: Everyday Multiculturalism in Two London Street Markets

      • Sophie Watson

      Pages 125-139

   3. Street-level Cosmopolitanism: Neighbourhood Shopping Streets in Multi-ethnic Montréal

      • Martha Radice

      Pages 140-157

6. Leisure

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 159-159

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   2. The Colour of Muscle: Multiculturalism at a Brooklyn Bodybuilding Gym

      • Jamie Sherman

      Pages 161-176

   3. Fishing the Georges River: Cultural Diversity and Urban Environments

      • Heather Goodall, Stephen Wearing, Denis Byrne, Allison Cadzow

      Pages 177-196

7. Everyday Solidarities, Everyday Politics

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 197-197

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   2. ‘Rubbing Along with the Neighbours’ — Everyday Interactions in a Diverse Neighbourhood in the North of England

      • Maria Hudson, Joan Phillips, Kathryn Ray

      Pages 199-215

   3. Volunteering, Social Networks, Contact Zones and Rubbish: The Case of the ‘Korean Volunteer Team’

      • Francis Leo Collins

      Pages 216-234

8. Everyday Tensions

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 135-135

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   2. We Both Eat Rice, But That’s About It: Korean and Latino Relations in Multi-ethnic Los Angeles

      • Chong-suk Han

      Pages 237-254

This book explores everyday lived experiences of multiculturalism in the contemporary world. Drawing on place-based case studies, contributions focus on encounters and interactions across cultural difference in super-diverse cities to explore what it means to inhabit multiculturalism in our everyday lives.

• community
• environment
• identity
• interaction
• Nation
• politics

"this accessible and methodologically innovative volume should be required reading for anyone interested in multiculturalism, immigrant incorporation and ethnographies" - Ethnic and Racial Studies

• Centre for Research on Social Inclusion, Macquarie University, Australia

  Amanda Wise

• Department of Sociology, Macquarie University, Australia

  Selvaraj Velayutham

DENIS BYRNE leads the research program in Culture and Heritage at the Department of Environment and Climate Change New South Wales, Australia ALLISON CADZOW is Senior Researcher in Environmental and Gender history at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia ILENYA CAMOZZI is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Milan-Bicocca, Italy and Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for Social Research, Frankfurt am Main, Germany FRANCIS LEO COLLINS is Postdoctoral Fellow in the Asia Research Institute at the National University of Singapore ENZO COLOMBO is Professor of Sociology of Culture and Sociology of Intercultural Relations at the University of Milan, Italy JEAN DURUZ is Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies at the University of South Australia, Australia ANNALISA FRISINA is Post-doctoral Fellow at the Department of Sociology, University of Padua, Italy HEATHER GOODALL is Professor of History at University Technology Sydney, Australia CHONG-SUK HAN is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Temple University, USA MARIA HUDSON is Senior Research Fellow at the Policy Studies Institute, UK GAIK CHENG KHOO teaches Cultural Studies, Gender and Film at the Australian National University, Australia GREG NOBLE is Associate Professor in Cultural Studies at the Centre for Cultural Research and the School of Humanities and Languages at the University of Western Sydney, Australia JOAN PHILLIPS is Research Fellow at the Policy Studies Institute, UK MARTHA RADICE is a PhD candidate in Urban Studies at the Institut national de la recherche scientifique Urbanisation Culture Société in Montréal, Quebec, Canada KATHRYN RAY is Senior Research Fellow at the Policy Studies Institute, UK GIOVANNI SEMI is Assistant Professor of Sociology of Culture at the University of Milan, Italy JAMIE SHERMAN is a doctoral candidate at Princeton University, USA SELVARAJ VELAYUTHAM is Lecturer in Sociology in the Department of Sociology, Macquarie University, Australia SOPHIE WATSON is Professor of Sociology at the Open University, UK STEPHEN WEARING is Associate Professor in Leisure and Tourism Studies at University Technology Sydney AMANDA WISE is Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Research on Social Inclusion, Macquarie University, Australia

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