Abstract
Since the 1990s, social scientists have noted that public spaces in cities have become increasingly inhospitable to the ‘other’, debating whether the spatial component of interaction between strangers is capable of mediating social and cultural differences (Fincher and Iveson 2008; Amin 2012; Hall 2012; Sennett 2018; Berg and Nowicka 2019). The theme of this Special Issue—‘Urban encounters: living with difference in cities’—speaks to a need to explore topics of belonging, identity, participation and interaction with others within urban spaces more deeply. It aims to unpack the concepts of encounter and interaction with others (Valentine 2008; Mayblin et al. 2016) in the hope of building pathways between disciplines and approaches. Daily life, here, becomes a point of enquiry and a practical challenge. Looking at everyday spaces and the quotidian as a sphere of interaction, the key concepts which emerge—relating to the management of diversity and contestations of identity and belonging—are as conflicted as the situations they tend to describe.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | mnae017 |
| Pages (from-to) | 1-9 |
| Number of pages | 9 |
| Journal | Migration Studies |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| Early online date | 24 May 2024 |
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| Publication status | Published - 1 Jun 2024 |
Bibliographical note
© The Author(s) 2024. Published by Oxford University Press.This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Funder
Funding support for this article was provided by the UK Economic and Social Research Council, in the form of an Incubator Grant awarded to the first author for the original symposium.Themes
- Migration, Displacement and Belonging