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Title: Hope and belonging in a multicultural suburb
Related: Journal of intercultural studies, Vol. 26, Issue 1 & 2, p. 171-186
DOI: 10.1080/07256860500074383
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 2005
Author/Creator: Wise, Amanda
Description: In this paper I explore the complex nature of multiculturalism as place-sharing, of cross-cultural interaction, or multiculturalism of inhabitance. I investigate, in particular, the struggles over and potentials for a sense of hopefulness and belonging in a culturally diverse suburb shared by more than one ethnic group. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in the Sydney suburb of Ashfield, I present a series of ethnographic vignettes that represent what I term 'hopeful intercultural encounters'. I theorise these in terms of Simmel's notion of gratitude, and Hage's notion of 'hope on the side of life' as a means of reflecting on the social possibilities for new forms of integration in culturally diverse localities.
Description: 16 page(s)
Subject Keyword: multiculturalism
Subject Keyword: cultural diversity
Subject Keyword: intercultural relations
Subject Keyword: intercommunal relations
Subject Keyword: social cohesion
Subject Keyword: hope
Subject Keyword: racism
Subject Keyword: age
Subject Keyword: place
Resource Type: journal article
Organisation: Macquarie University. Centre for Research on Social Inclusion

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