Ethnography, Diversity and Urban Space

Mette Louise Berg · Ben Gidley · Nando Sigona

apr 2016 · Routledge

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The chapters in this volume examine the racial and ethnic landscape of Britain in a contemporary era of neoliberalism and financial crisis. A key aspect of neoliberal thought is the belief that we live in a ‘post-racial’ in which the problems of racism and xenophobia have been overcome. However, cultural retrenchment and coded xenophobia have been sweeping the political terrain, accompanied by ‘new racisms’ and ‘new racial subjects’ that only close contextual analysis can unpick. The scholarship contained in this collection challenges those who suggest that we live in a post-racial time. By focusing on particular locations in Britain at a particular moment, the volume explores local stories of ‘race’ and racism across changing sociopolitical ground. This book is essential reading for scholars and students of race, racism, diaspora, multiculturalism, post-colonialism, transnationalism and post-race.

This book was originally published as a special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies.

Informazioni sull'autore

Mette Louise Berg is a lecturer in the anthropology of migration at the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society, and the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford, UK.

Ben Gidley

is a researcher at the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society, University of Oxford, UK.

Nando Sigona

is a lecturer and Birmingham fellow at the Institute for Research into Superdiversity, and the School of Social Policy, University of Birmingham, UK.