Researching the ordinary

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2147991
AutoresBen Gidley (0000-0003-2492-1384, Birkbeck, University of London, autor de correspondencia)
Año2019
Volumen42
Número3
Páginas402-408
Fecha de publicación2019-02-17
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEthnic and Racial Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0141-9870 • E-ISSN: 1466-4356
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01419870.2019.1536274
OpenAlexW2908430689
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas17

Lived Experiences of Multiculture is an important contribution to a growing body of work that seeks to understand how people live together with difference, identified by the late Stuart Hall as the constitutive question of our time. The ordinaryThe book's starting point is a discourse about diversity dominated by the shrill voices of anxiety and pessimism, amplified by the entrepreneurs of fear who occupy centre stage in our public debates.Citing Greg Noble's descriptive account of an "unpanicked" multiculture, the book's agenda is to actively unpanick our cultural debate.This unpanicking proceeds through a valorisation of the ordinary, building on Suzanne Hall (2012), who talks of "the measure of the ordinary", and Jennifer Robinson 's work (2006) on all cities as "ordinary

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