Exploring the Transnational Neighbourhood: Perspectives on Community-Building, Identity and Belonging - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 9462703485 ISBN 13: 9789462703483

Verlag: Leuven University Press, 2022

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Urban neighbourhoods have come to occupy the public imagination as a litmus test of migration, with some areas hailed as multicultural success stories while others are framed as ghettos. In an attempt to break down this dichotomy, Exploring the Transnational Neighbourhood filters these debates through the lenses of geography, anthropology, and literary and cultural studies. By establishing the interdisciplinary concept of the 'transnational neighbourhood', it presents these localities – whether Clichy-sous-Bois, Belfast, El Segundo Barrio or Williamsburg – as densely packed contact zones where disparate cultures meet in often highly asymmetrical relations, producing a constantly shifting local and cultural knowledge about identity, belonging, and familiarity.

Exploring the Transnational Neighbourhood offers a pivotal response to one of the key questions of our time: How do people create a sense of community within an exceedingly globalised context? By focusing on the neighbourhood as a central space of transcultural everyday experience within three different levels of discourse (i.e., the virtual, the physical local, and the transnational-global), the multidisciplinary contributions explore bottom-up practices of community-building alongside cultural, social, economic, and historical barriers.

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Stephan Ehrig is lecturer in German at the University of Glasgow. Britta C. Jung is lecturer in German at Maynooth University. Gad Schaffer is lecturer in Geography and Multidisciplinary Studies at Tel-Hai Academic College.

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Urban neighbourhoods have come to occupy the public imagination as a litmus test of migration, with some areas hailed as multicultural success stories while others are framed as ghettos. In an attempt to break down this dichotomy, Exploring the Transnational Neighbourhood filters these debates through the lenses of geography, anthropology, and literary and cultural studies. By establishing the interdisciplinary concept of the 'transnational neighbourhood', it presents these localities – whether Clichy-sous-Bois, Belfast, El Segundo Barrio or Williamsburg – as densely packed contact zones where disparate cultures meet in often highly asymmetrical relations, producing a constantly shifting local and cultural knowledge about identity, belonging, and familiarity.

Exploring the Transnational Neighbourhood offers a pivotal response to one of the key questions of our time: How do people create a sense of community within an exceedingly globalised context? By focusing on the neighbourhood as a central space of transcultural everyday experience within three different levels of discourse (i.e., the virtual, the physical local, and the transnational-global), the multidisciplinary contributions explore bottom-up practices of community-building alongside cultural, social, economic, and historical barriers.

Stephan Ehrig is Lecturer in German at the University of Glasgow.Britta C. Jung is Lecturer in German at Maynooth University.Gad Schaffer is Lecturer in Geography at Tel-Hai Academic College.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Leuven University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2022
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 9462703485
• ISBN 13: 9789462703483
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 342
• Herausgeber: Ehrig Stephan, C. Jung Britta, Schaffer Gad
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• Verantwortliche Person: Nicht verfügbar