City, Street and Citizen av Suzanne Hall

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<P>How can we learn from a multicultural society if we don¿t know how to recognise it? The contemporary city is more than ever a space for the intense convergence of diverse individuals who shift in and out of its urban terrains. The city street is perhaps the most prosaic of the city¿s public parts, allowing us a view of the very ordinary practices of life and livelihoods. By attending to the expressions of conviviality and contestation, ¿City, Street and Citizen¿ offers an alternative notion of ¿multiculturalism¿ away from the ideological frame of nation, and away from the moral imperative of community. This book offers to the reader an account of the lived realities of allegiance, participation and belonging from the base of a multi-ethnic street in south London.</P><P></P><P>¿City, Street and Citizen¿ focuses on the question of whether local life is significant for how individuals develop skills to live with urban change and cultural and ethnic diversity. To animate this question,