Urban Encounters
Juxtapositions of Difference and the Communicative Interface of Global Cities
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12899031 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Myria Georgiou (0000-0001-8771-8469, University of Leeds, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 70 |
| Issue | 3-4 |
| Pages | 223-235 |
| Publication date | 2008-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Communication Gazette (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1748-0485 • E-ISSN: 1748-0493 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1748048508089949 |
| OpenAlex | W2023751861 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 11 |
This article explores the communicative interface of global cities, especially as it is shaped in the juxtapositions of difference in culturally diverse urban neighbourhoods. These urban zones present powerful examples, where different groups live cheek by jowl, in close proximity and in intimate interaction — desired or unavoidable. In these urban locations, the need to manage difference is synonymous to making them liveable and one's own. In seeking (and sometimes finding) a location in the city and a location in the world, urban dwellers shape their communication practices as forms of everyday, mundane and bottom-up tactics for the management of diversity. The article looks at three particular areas where cultural diversity and urban communication practices come together into meaningful political and cultural relations for a sustainable cosmopolitan life: citizenship, imagination and identity
Aesthetics · Citizenship · Diversity (politics · Economic geography · Everyday life · Geography · Identity (music · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Anthropology · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Urban Planning and Governance
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,36 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2022 (8) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |