Beebeejaun, Yasminah;
(2022)
Whose diversity? Race, space and the European City.
Journal of Urban Affairs
10.1080/07352166.2022.2075269.
(In press).
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Abstract
European cities have increasingly highlighted diversity as a marker of their progressive status. A growing field of research argues that “super-diverse” neighborhoods exemplify a normalization of ethnic and racial difference as a positive facet of everyday life. However, contemporary manifestations of urban diversity cannot be disentangled easily from the European colonial legacy that underlies a series of racial and spatial imaginaries. I argue that an inadequate conceptualization of race and ethnicity limits our appreciation of ongoing struggles over the meaning of urban diversity. The claimed reconfiguration of European cities as sites of normative diversity obscures the ongoing epistemological framing of Europe as white, thereby placing longstanding ethnic and racial minorities within a hierarchy of belonging. Contemporary narratives that focus on the normalization of difference in diverse neighborhoods fail to sufficiently engage with the dynamics of structural racism that underpin ethnic and racial categorizations.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Whose diversity? Race, space and the European City |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/07352166.2022.2075269 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/07352166.2022.2075269 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2022 The Author(s). Published with license by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. |
| Keywords: | Ethnicity; race; multiculturalism; superdiversity; postcolonial urbanism |
| UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > The Bartlett School of Planning UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10153083 |
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