Living together in the super-diverse city: mapping vernacular geographies and urban relational space

在超级多元化的城市中共同生活：绘制乡土地理和城市关系空间

• 批准号: ES/V011618/1
• 负责人: Katherine Stansfeld
• 金额: $ 12.76万
• 依托单位: Queen Mary University of London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Fellowship
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FV011618%2F1
• 关键词: Living; together; super; diverse; city; Living; together; super; diverse; city

In the past two decades, London has become a 'global city' due to substantial transformations in its 'economic base, spatial organisation and social structure' (Sassen, 2001:4). In the London Borough of Haringey, where my doctoral research took place, over 70% of young people are from ethnic minority backgrounds and over 100 languages are spoken. Super-diversity has been introduced as a concept by Steven Vertovec (2007) to recognise this exceptional diversity and the unpredictable, mobile and complex forms of migration to urban areas. Consequently, concerns of social identity, place-making, cohesion and belonging have become crucial in London and many other world cities. Difference has for many come to be viewed as a problem needing to be resolved and yet, in places where everyday multiculture is lived, it seems to be largely celebrated. As Paul Gilroy (2004:xi) has argued 'processes of cohabitation and interaction...have made multiculture an ordinary feature of social life in Britain's urban areas'.Therefore, it is crucially important for us to ask and understand: what does difference really mean for our everyday lives and geographies in these super-diverse neighbourhoods? And how do these processes of cohabitation and interaction shape and produce urban places?This research takes these questions as a starting point. It argues that space is crucially the arena in which our lives unfold, and an analysis of place enables an understanding of the politics of contemporary co-existence. Focused on the super-diverse neighbourhood of Finsbury Park, the research investigates how multicultural places shape people and vice versa, how Finsbury Park is made up of many everyday experiences and 'vernacular geographies', the local practices of place-making.Through further research and publishing, this fellowship will make accessible to a range of audiences how this coexistence is lived in everyday places and the different implications of this. I will contribute to existing scholarship and debate by developing concepts of superdiversity, difference and conviviality, addressing key questions of the social relations implicated within urban change. Through the academic publications and conference presentations included in the fellowship, I am moving beyond stalled debates that either celebrate or reject notions of multiculturalism by adding a critical and nuanced view that opens up new avenues of inquiry. I combine innovative visual and mapping methodological approaches to demonstrate the relevance of geographical knowledge of space and place in understanding the complex ways we live together with difference. This fellowship will adopt different strategies to put my findings into publications and make the results accessible. E.G. through a Knowledge Exchange programme with Manor House Development Trust (MHDT), a community-based resident led charity that provides holistic community development. This will involve a co-designed research activity to develop findings that explore how forms of 'community' and 'conviviality' are constituted through experiences of place and shared encounters in contexts of regeneration. I will focus on making the results relevant to local NGOs and government and can have a tangible impact on policies and community-based projects through a running a Stakeholder Workshop and writing a Stakeholder Report. During the fellowship I will complete an overseas visit to University of Cape Town to develop new research proposals that will ensure this research can be built upon in new contexts. I would like to develop my research in South Africa, to investigate how the complexity of diversity manifests in the post-apartheid city. This visit will increase my research networks through contributing to the programming of the Urban Humanities Hub of the Africa Centre for Cities and will contribute to my own career trajectory ensuring the research can continue to have an impact into the future.

在过去的二十年中，由于其“经济基础，空间组织和社会结构”的重大转变，伦敦已成为一个“全球城市”（Sassen，2001：4）。在我的博士研究的伦敦伦敦自治市镇，超过70％的年轻人来自少数民族背景，并讲了100多种语言。史蒂文·韦尔托维克（Steven Vertovec，2007）将超级多样性作为一个概念引入，以认识到这种非凡的多样性以及无法预测的，移动和复杂的移民形式到城市地区。因此，在伦敦和许多其他世界城市中，人们对社会身份，场所建设，凝聚力和归属感的关注变得至关重要。许多人的差异被视为需要解决的问题，但是，在日常多元文化的地方，似乎在很大程度上被庆祝了。正如保罗·吉尔罗伊（Paul Gilroy，2004：XI）所说的“同居和互动的过程……使多元文化成为英国城市社会生活的普通特征”。因此，对我们询问和理解的至关重要：对这些超级多样社区中我们的日常生活和地理学有什么意义？这些同居和互动的过程如何形成并产生城市场所？这项研究将这些问题作为起点。它认为，空间至关重要的是我们生活展开的舞台，对地点的分析使人们可以理解当代共存的政治。该研究专注于Finsbury Park的超级多样性社区，研究了多元文化的地方如何塑造人们，反之亦然，Finsbury Park如何由许多日常的经验和“白话地理”组成，当地的习惯是在地方创作的本地实践，通过进一步的研究和出版，这一学位可以使这些范围的观众访问这些范围，而这些范围是这些地方的范围。我将通过发展超多样性，差异和欢乐的概念来为现有的奖学金和辩论做出贡献，并解决城市变化中涉及的社会关系的关键问题。通过奖学金中包括的学术出版物和会议演讲，我超越了停滞的辩论，即庆祝或拒绝多元文化主义的概念，添加了一种批判和细微的观点，从而打开了新的询问途径。我结合了创新的视觉和映射方法学方法，以证明空间的地理知识和位置在理解我们生活的复杂方式与差异的相关性。该奖学金将采用不同的策略，将我的发现纳入出版物中，并使结果易于访问。例如。通过与Manor House Development Trust（MHDT）的知识交流计划，这是一个社区居民LED慈善机构，提供整体社区发展。这将涉及一项共同设计的研究活动，以开发研究结果，以探讨“社区”和“欢乐”的形式是如何通过在再生背景下的地点和共享相遇而构成的。我将专注于与当地非政府组织和政府相关的结果，并通过开展利益相关者研讨会并撰写利益相关者报告对政策和基于社区的项目产生切实影响。在奖学金期间，我将完成海外访问开普敦大学的访问，以制定新的研究建议，以确保这项研究可以在新的背景下建立。我想开发在南非的研究，以研究种族隔离城市多样性的复杂性如何表现。这次访问将通过为非洲城市中心城市人文中心的编程做出贡献，从而增加我的研究网络，并将为我自己的职业轨迹做出贡献，以确保研究能够继续对未来产生影响。