The Ethics of Indifference
Community and Solitude in the City
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8092356 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Fran Tonki (0009-0001-8484-0669, Goldsmiths University of London, corresponding author), Fran Tonkiss (Goldsmiths College, England) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 297-311 |
| Publication date | 2003-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Cultural Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1367-8779 • E-ISSN: 1460-356X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/13678779030063004 |
| OpenAlex | W1988872252 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 63 |
| References cited | 14 |
Modern social theory has frequently represented city life as isolating, as degrading of social ties and as inimical to community. In another register, however, urban contexts have also been primary sites for imagining and re-imagining forms of community, especially on the basis of shared social spaces or elective identities. The discussion in this article explores this relation between solitude and community in the city. While a language of community has been important for articulating various politics of difference, I suggest that an ethics of indifference also opens up certain rights to the city. The point, however, is not simply to set a conception of indifference or anonymity against one of community or visibility, but rather to think about dissociation as a certain kind of social relation, to consider the solitude of cities as a common, if ambivalent, property. The discussion begins by addressing the nature of indifference and anonymity in urban contexts before turning to New York as the site for recent narratives of a private urban life, and a more public death, in order to explore the complex interplay of difference and indifference, community and solitude, in the city
Aesthetics · Ambivalence · Anonymity · Narrative · Opposition (politics · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Solitude · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Law in Society and Culture · Psychology · Social Psychology
Distanz und Indifferenz
Shallow Solidarities
Urban change and rural continuity in gender ideologies and practices
Walks of Experience
The ethics of inattention
Performing a peer-to-peer economy
The enchantment of human rights; or, What difference does humanitarian indifference make
Rethinking Anthropological Perspectives on Community
Tourism trends
Processes of encountering
The publicness of transit spaces
Market research as ascetic detachment
French and German teenagers in multicultural cities
Distant
On the affective ambivalence of living with cultural diversity
Vulnerable Narcissism and Sense of Community Among Adolescents
Exploring wellbeing in human settlements - A spatial planning perspective
Between ontological security and the right difference
Policing cities
Multicultural Engagements in Lived Spaces
Minding Your Own Business? Understanding Indifference as a Virtue
Becoming invisible
Everyday ethics of the global event
Size matters
Love and Other Injustices
The stranger’, the city and the nation
Everyday peace
Street Harassment as Seriality
Old and new questions for the public sphere
People‐nearby applications and local communities
Youthful socialities in Australia’s urban multiculture
Migrant belonging, social location and the neighbourhood
Absorbing the agony of agonism? The limits of cultural questioning and alternative variations of intercultural civility
Roots and routes in neighbourhoods. Length of residence, belonging and public familiarity in Berlin, Germany
The Urban Public Space
Small Islands, resilience and social control
Falling from the sky
Strange Familiarity
Stress and the ecology of urban experience
Peace between Peace(s)? Urban Peace and the Coexistence of Antagonists in City Spaces
Traditions and transitions
Using the Living Lab Methodology to Build Inclusive Communities
Introduction
Top-down and bottom-up narratives of peace and conflict
Urban civility or urban community? A false opposition in Richard Sennett's conception of public ethos
Asian Americans' Indifference to Black Lives Matter
Mobile encounters
Too Close for Comfort
Translators as mediators of citizenship
Whether you like it or not, this is the future
Cities as Catalysts of Gendered Social Change? Reflections from Zambia
A Clash Of Subcultures? Questioning Queer-Muslim Antagonisms in the Neoliberal City
White, middle-class South Africans moving through Cape Town
Maternal Situations
Beggaring belonging in Africa's no-man's lands
Settling in a Super-Diverse Context
Conviviality, Conflict and Distanciation in Young People's Local Multicultures
It's Like They Have a Cognitive Map of Relations
Conviviality and its others
Respecting the Presence of Others
A Heterotopology of Urban Margins
Encountering Publicness and Multiculture
Architectures of visibility and invisibility
| Unique citing works | 63 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,74 |
| Citation span | 2003 - 2026 (24) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 63 |