Overview
- Uses complexity, relationality, positionality, materiality as well as various levels of analysis (micro, meso, macro) to form the unique theoretical framework
- Analyses the ways in which local context shapes the way cities deal with migration-driven diversity through different forms of enacting diversity
- Based on ethnographic research in neighbourhoods in Glasgow and Stuttgart
Part of the book series: Global Diversities (GLODIV)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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About this book
At a time when diversity is taking an increasingly prominent place in public and academic debate, Situational Diversity offers a new perspective by understanding diversity framed in the local context, characterised through different forms of social differentiation.
Based on ethnographic fieldwork and archival research on migration-driven diversity in two neighbourhoods in Stuttgart (Germany) and Glasgow (United Kingdom), the book presents a concept that takes into account the contingent and emergent nature of social differentiation while at the same time explaining the stability of modes of differentiation. The comparative approach provides a nuanced analysis of how diversity in urban environments occurs as a result of locally, socially and temporally specific practices.
In this book, Klückmann discusses how social work, city administration and volunteer work prefigure positions and relations of people in the context of migration. Thus,it will appeal to students and scholars of social and cultural anthropology, European ethnology, sociology, human/cultural geography, cultural studies in addition to practitioners in the fields of intercultural relations, social and public policy as well as urban development.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Matthias Klückmann is Global Diversity & Retention Manager at an international company, where he is responsible for developing and implementing inclusion and diversity initiatives. He is affiliated to the Ludwig-Uhland-Institut für Empirische Kulturwissenschaft (Institute of Historical and Cultural Anthropology) at the University of Tübingen, Germany.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Situational Diversity
Book Subtitle: Understanding Modes of Migration-Driven Differentiation in Urban Neighbourhoods
Authors: Matthias Klückmann
Series Title: Global Diversities
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54791-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-54790-5Published: 13 October 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-54793-6Published: 14 October 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-54791-2Published: 12 October 2020
Series ISSN: 2662-2580
Series E-ISSN: 2662-2599
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 226
Number of Illustrations: 11 illustrations in colour
Topics: Social Sciences, general, Urban Studies/Sociology, Social Anthropology