Overview

In many countries, particularly in the Global North, established forms of solidarity within communities are said to be challenged by the increasing ethnic and cultural diversity of the population. Against the backdrop of renewed geopolitical tensions – which inflate and exploit ethno-cultural, rather than political-economic cleavages – concerns are raised that ethnic and cultural diversity challenge both the formal mechanisms of redistribution and informal acts of charity, reciprocity and support which underpin common notions of community. This book focuses on the innovative forms of solidarity that develop around the joint appropriation and the envisaged common future of specific places. Drawing on examples from schools, streets, community centres, workplaces, churches, housing projects and sporting projects, it provides an alternative research agenda from the 'loss of community' narrative. It reflects on the different spatiotemporal frames in which solidarities are nurtured, the connections forged between solidarity and citizenship, and the role of interventions by professionals to nurture solidarity in diversity. This timely and original work will be essential reading for those working in human geography, sociology, ethnic studies, social work, urban studies, political studies and cultural studies.

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Author:   Stijn Oosterlynck (University of Antwerp, Belgium) ,  Nick Schuermans (Vrije Universiteit, Belgium) ,  Maarten Loopmans (KU Leuven, Belgium)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780367218904

ISBN 10:   0367218909
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   17 January 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. Beyond social capital: place, diversity and solidarity 2. Mundane mutualities: solidarity and strangership in everyday urban life 3. Learning to cope with superdiversity: place-based solidarities at a (pre-)primary Catholic school in Leuven, Belgium 4. Building coalitions: solidarities, friendships and tackling inequality 5. Self-building in northern Italy: housing and place-based solidarities among strangers 6. Challenging the figure of the ‘migrant entrepreneur: place-based solidarities in the Romanian arrival infrastructure in Brussels 7. The spatial solidarity of intentional neighbouring 8. Football for solidarity: bridging gaps between the Baka and the Bantu in East Cameroon 9. Domesticating, festivalizing and contesting space: spatial acts of citizenship in a super-diverse neighbourhood in Amsterdam 10. Afterword: solidarities, conjunctures, encounters

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Stijn Oosterlynck is Associate Professor in Urban Sociology at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. Nick Schuermans is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre on Inequalities, Poverty, Social Exclusion and the City of the University of Antwerp and a teaching associate at the geography department of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium. Maarten Loopmans is Associate Professor at the Division of Geography at KU Leuven, Belgium.

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