‘Are we invisible?’ Power‐geometries of conviviality in a superdiverse London neighbourhood

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.

本文通过使用原始定性数据来分析差异的（不）可见性对超级多样化社会关系的影响，探讨了伦敦一个街区和谐共处的复杂性。它发展了权力几何的概念，以研究社会差异在街区公共空间中是如何产生、被想象和被体验的影响。借鉴一个视觉民族志研究项目中的三个具体实例，它探讨了性别、性取向、阶级和种族如何与族裔、宗教和移民身份相互交叉，从而影响城市和谐共处的情感强度。本文认为，不同的地位和身份是如何分层和交叉的，这可以塑造“世界主义观点”和跨文化关系的发展。通过这样做，该分析细化了在多数/少数关系范围内狭义理解的超级多样性。相反，它促进了对差异在超级多样化的地方日常生活中具有意义以及塑造日常认可和平等形式的复杂多样方式进行更具批判性的民族志探索。本文通过分析权力关系如何影响和谐共处，为关于差异、相遇和公共空间的地理学辩论做出了贡献。它展示了和谐共处是一个矛盾的过程，既充满偏见又存在团结，并且受到结构性不平等和更广泛的政治话语的影响。文章最后强调了居民在城市变化中协商差异时的能动性和对话空间的作用。