Redclift, Victoria;
Rajina, Fatima;
Rashid, Naaz;
(2022)
The Burden of Conviviality: British Bangladeshi Muslims Navigating Diversity in London, Luton and Birmingham.
Sociology
10.1177/00380385221090783.
(In press).
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Abstract
This article considers the convivial turn in migration and diversity studies, and some of its silences. Conviviality has been conceptualised by some as the ability to be at ease in the presence of diversity. However, insufficient attention has been paid to considering who is affectively at ease with whose differences or, more particularly, what the work of conviviality requires of those marked as other vis-a-vis European white normativity. Drawing on in-depth qualitative interviews with British Bangladeshi Muslims in London, Luton and Birmingham, we argue that a focus on ‘ease in the presence of diversity’ obscures the ‘burden of conviviality’ carried by some, but not others. We discuss three key types of burden that emerged from our data: the work of education and explanation, the work of understanding racism, and quite simply the work of ‘appearing unremarkable’.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | The Burden of Conviviality: British Bangladeshi Muslims Navigating Diversity in London, Luton and Birmingham |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1177/00380385221090783 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1177%2F00380385221090783 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2022 by BSA Publications Ltd. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Lficense (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
| Keywords: | British Bangladeshis, conviviality, Islamophobia, multiculture, racism, super diversity |
| UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Social Research Institute UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10148960 |
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