The Coining of Convivial Public Space
Homelessness, Outreach Work, and Interaction Order
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22018363 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robin Smith (0000-0001-7457-9690, Cardiff University), Jonathan Ablitt (0000-0002-6182-6485, Cardiff University), Joe Williams (0000-0003-2125-8951, Cardiff University), Tom Hall (0000-0002-9001-6684, Cardiff University) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Publication date | 2023-06-15 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Urban Planning (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2183-7635 • E-ISSN: 2183-7635 |
| Publisher | Cogitatio (PUBLISHER • PT) |
| DOI | 10.17645/up.v8i4.6457 |
| OpenAlex | W4380997379 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 37 |
This article engages with the “convivial turn” in writings about the city and offers a reorientation of sorts. Beginning with encounters, rather than particular spaces, we make the case that conviviality and its limits are realised in practices. Rather than starting in set piece urban spaces designed to foster conviviality we start out on the move, with frontline street-based care and outreach workers in Cardiff, Wales, and Manhattan, New York City, as they seek out and meet up with those sleeping on city streets. This provides a view of an improvised conviviality that makes the most of whatever the material affordances of a given city space happen to provide. Our research points to how these encounters necessarily take place in marginal settings and times due to the sorts of exclusions that can be built into contemporary city spaces that can at the same time be welcoming to the public, but hostile toward those most in need and vulnerably located in the centre of things. In this sense, we approach conviviality as a fragile interactional accomplishment and, in doing so, see questions of conviviality and conflict as less of a big-picture paradox of togetherness and distance, hope and hate in urban life, and more of a dynamic relation of co-presence and visibility. Public space, and indeed public life, might then be reconsidered not as a location but, rather, an active, shifting accomplishment, variously coloured by the politics of seeing and being seen
Aesthetics · Affordance · Architectural engineering · Art · Everyday life · Media studies · Outreach · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Public space · Sociology · Computer Science · Engineering · Homelessness and Social Issues · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Urban Planning and Governance
Entanglements of Improvisation, Conviviality, and Conflict in Everyday Encounters in Public Space
Moral landscapes and morally meaningful encounters
Lecture or Lager
When Multispecies Ethnography Encounters a Shelter-Based Clinic
The Disappearance of Urban Horses and the Rise of Homelessness and Mental Illness
Tacit Racism
Planning and Diversity in the City
The New Urban Frontier
After Empire
Advances in Membership Categorisation Analysis
Encounters
Lectures on Conversation
Conviviality by design
Urban interaction ritual
Situating revanchism in the contemporary city
Convivial encounters
Desire lines and defensive architecture in modern urban environments
Small Things in Everyday Places
A Shared Everyday Ethic of Public Sociability
Human Practices and the Observability of the ‘Macrosocial
Mobilities at work
Bobbing in the park
The New Urban Frontier
Cold shoulders and napkins handed
Comparing convivialities
The Cosmopolitan Canopy
The Interaction Order
Passing Propinquities in the Multicultural City
Valuing the bowling alley
Contested Urban Rhythms
Convivialities
Urban Multiculture and Everyday Encounters in Semi-Public, Franchised Cafe Spaces
Conviviality, disability and design in the city
Knowing the city
Accusations
Community and Conviviality? Informal Social Life in Multicultural Places
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,67 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |