Stansfeld, Katherine;
(2024)
‘Are we invisible?’ Power‐geometries of conviviality in a superdiverse London neighbourhood.
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
, Article e12688. 10.1111/tran.12688.
(In press).
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Abstract
This paper explores the complexities of conviviality in a London neighbourhood by using primary qualitative data to analyse the implications of the (in)visibility of difference for superdiverse social relations. It develops the concept of power‐geometries to examine the implications of how social differences are produced, imagined, and experienced in the neighbourhood's public spaces. Drawing on three situated examples from a visual ethnographic research project, it explores the affective intensities of how gender, sexuality, class, and race intersect with ethnicity, religion, and migrant status to shape urban conviviality. The paper argues the way different positions and identities are layered and intersect can shape the development of ‘cosmopolitan outlooks’ and intercultural relations. In doing so, the analysis refines understandings of superdiversity conceived narrowly within the remit of majority/minority relations. It promotes instead more critically ethnographic explorations of the complex and varied ways difference has meaning in everyday lives in superdiverse places and shapes everyday forms of recognition and equality. The paper contributes to debates on geographies of difference, encounter, and public space by analysing how power relations affect conviviality. It demonstrates how conviviality is an ambivalent process that is punctuated by both prejudices and solidarities and is shaped by structural inequalities and wider political discourses. The paper concludes by highlighting the role of agency and space for dialogue for residents negotiating differences among urban change.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | ‘Are we invisible?’ Power‐geometries of conviviality in a superdiverse London neighbourhood |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1111/tran.12688 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/tran.12688 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2024 The Authors. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Royal Geographical Society (with The Institute of British Geographers). This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| Keywords: | Conviviality, intersectionality, London, power-geometry, superdiversity, urban ethnography |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education 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 > Centre for Languages and Intl Educatn |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10192419 |
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