Skip to main content

Research Repository

Advanced Search

Ethnicity and the multicultural city: living with diversity

Amin, A.

Authors

A. Amin



Abstract

In the wake of the race disturbances in Oldham, Burnley, and Bradford in Summer 2001, the author explores the possibilities for intercultural understanding and dialogue. He argues that, although the national frame of racial and ethnic relations remains important, much of the negotiation of difference occurs at the very local level, through everyday experiences and encounters. Against current policy emphasis on community cohesion and mixed housing, which also tends to assume fixed minority ethnic identities, the author focuses on prosaic sites of cultural exchange and transformation, plural and contested senses of place, an agonistic politics of ethnicity and identity, and the limitations of the White legacy of national belonging in Britain.

Citation

Amin, A. (2002). Ethnicity and the multicultural city: living with diversity. Environment and Planning A, 34(6), 959-980. https://doi.org/10.1068/a3537

Journal Article Type Article
Publication Date 2002
Deposit Date Nov 7, 2006
Journal Environment and Planning A
Print ISSN 0308-518X
Electronic ISSN 1472-3409
Publisher SAGE Publications
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 34
Issue 6
Pages 959-980
DOI https://doi.org/10.1068/a3537
Keywords Race, Ethnic relations, Conflict, Deprivation, Segregation, Generational change, Local community.

You might also like



Downloadable Citations