In Dividing Paradise, Jennifer Sherman tells the story of Paradise Valley, Washington, a rural community where amenity-driven economic growth has resulted in a new social landscape of inequity and privilege, with deep fault lines between old-timers and newcomers. Based on in-dep…
"In Everyday Equalities, four leading scholars in critical urban geography come together to deliver a powerful message about the meaning of equality in contemporary cities. Drawing on both theoretical reflection and urban ethnographic research, they offer the formulation "being …
Introduction: everyday urban multicultures : encountering difference, enacting equality -- Encounters with difference in the urban everyday : a relational approach -- The political potential of encounters : being together in difference as equals -- Making a home in Melbourne -- …
If city life is a "being together of strangers," what forms of being together should we strive for in cities with ethnic and racial diversity? 'Everyday Equalities' seeks evidence of progressive political alternatives to racialized inequality that are emerging from everyday enco…
