Stories of cosmopolitan belonging : emotion and location / edited by Hannah Jones and Emma Jackson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jones, Hannah, 1980-

Jackson, Emma, 1978-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Identity (Psychology)--Social aspects.

Identity (Psychology).

Belonging (Social psychology).

Social integration.

Home.

Cosmopolitanism.

Physical Description:

xii, 209 pages : color illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2014.

Summary:

What does it mean to belong in a place, or more than one place? This exciting new volume brings together work from cutting-edge interdisciplinary scholars researching home, migration and belonging, using their original research to argue for greater attention to how feeling and emotion is deeply embedded in social structures and power relations. Stories of Cosmopolitan Belonging argues for a practical cosmopolitanism that recognises relations of power and struggle, and that struggles over place are often played out through emotional attachment. Taking the reader on a journey through research encounters spiralling out from the global city of London, through English suburbs and European cities to homes and lives in Jamaica, Puerto Rico and Mexico, the contributors show ways in which international and intercontinental migrations and connections criss-cross and constitute local places in each of their case studies. With a reflection on the practice of 'writing cities' from two leading urbanists and a focus throughout the volume on empirical work driving theoretical elaboration, this book will be essential reading for those interested in the politics of social science method, transnational urbanism, affective practices and new perspectives on power relations in neoliberal times. The international range of linked case studies presented here will be a valuable resource for students and scholars in sociology, anthropology, urban studies, cultural studies and contemporary history, and for urban policy makers interested in innovative perspectives on social relations and urban form. Book jacket.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Reflections: Writing cities / Michael Keith

pt. I Local worlds/cosmopolitan formations: London and/in the world

1.Emotion, location and urban regeneration: The resonance of marginalised cosmopolitanisms / Suzanne M. Hall

2.Intersemiotic fruit: Mangoes, multiculture and the city / Alex Rhys-Taylor

3.The pigeon and the weave: The middle classes, dis/comfort and the multicultural city / Emma Jackson

pt. II Places that don't exist: England(s) and elsewheres

4.Uncomfortable feelings: How local belonging works on local policy makers / Hannah Jones

5.Dread culture: Music and identity in a British inner city / Kieran Connell

6.Ambivalent affect/emotion: Conflicted discourses of multicultural belonging / Sophie Watson

pt. III Displacement, its aftermaths and futures: Tracing connection to, from and through Europe

Contents note continued: 7.Post-political narratives and emotions: Dealing with discursive displacement in everyday life / Helena Holgersson

8.`This bridge is just like the one in Visegrad!': Dwelling, embodying and doing home across space / Kristina Grunenberg

9.Diaspora tours and place attachment: A unique configuration of emotion and location / Zeynep Turan Hoffman

pt. IV Cosmopolitanism in the home: North American belongings

10.Crime watch: Mediating belonging and the politics of place in inner-city Jamaica / Rivke Jaffe

11.Agency, ambivalence and emotions in a public housing anti-demolition struggle / Melissa Fernandez Arrigoitia

12.Revolutionary affect: Feeling modern in Mexico City / Adam Kaasa.

Notes:

"Earthscan from Routledge"--Title page.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138000643

1138000647

9781138000650

1138000655

OCLC:

867001090

Publisher Number:

11411631