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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
- 160800 Sociology
- 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
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/6620
- Identifier
- mq:389
- Identifier
- ISSN:1469-9540
- Identifier
- mq-rm-2005003021
- Language
- eng
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