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Hope in a Land of Strangers
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In this article, a response to Ash Amin's new book, "Land of Strangers" considers his argument that an urban commons of multiplicity must be underpinned by a cultural imaginary that creates momentum and musters sentiment with affective force.Abstract:
This response to Ash Amin's new book, ‘Land of Strangers’ considers his argument that an ‘urban commons’ of multiplicity must be underpinned by a cultural imaginary that creates momentum and musters sentiment with affective force. He argues encounters are always deeply mediated and attitudes shaped by material, technological and symbolic influences with provenances near and remote. This paper targets the sphere of public narratives of encounter, providing two examples of interventions aimed at mobilising sentiment towards ideas of intercultural solidarity and care, and at re-working place identities in ways that highlight multiplicity, interdependency, and intersecting realities.read more
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Against Paranoid Nationalism: Searching for Hope in a Shrinking Society
TL;DR: A brief history of white colonial paranoia and the rise of Australian fundamentalism can be found in this article, where the authors discuss the lost art of the well-administered national cuddle and the imaginary of paranoid nationalism.
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Ordinary Cosmopolitanisms: Strategies for Bridging Racial Boundaries among Working Class Men
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TL;DR: In contrast to most literature on cosmopolitanism, which focuses on its elite forms, the authors analyzes how ordinary people bridge racial boundaries in everyday life, based on interviews with interviewees.
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Land of Strangers
TL;DR: This paper argued for a politics of the commons that makes space for, and publicises, rituals of cohabitation, the shared commons, a welfarist biopolitics and other collective interventions that might strengthen civilities of indifference to difference.
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Passing Propinquities in the Multicultural City: The Everyday Encounters of Bus Passengering
TL;DR: This article examined how intercultural relations are continuously developed, destroyed, and remade in the practice of everyday bus travel and gave specific attention to the tacit obligations of public travel and how such obligations both produce and sustain tolerance of others across a journey, revealing the multifaceted nature and workings of multicultural intimacies on the ground.