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Biographical Narratives of Encounter: The Significance of Mobility and Emplacement in Shaping Attitudes towards Difference.
- Source :
- Urban Studies (Sage Publications, Ltd.); Jul2014, Vol. 51 Issue 9, p1979-1994, 16p
- Publication Year :
- 2014
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Abstract
- This paper is located within work in urban studies about the significance of contact with difference as a means for reducing prejudice and achieving social change. Recent approaches, influenced by theories of affect, have emphasised non-conscious everyday negotiations of difference in the city. In this paper it is argued that such approaches lose sight of the significance of the subject: of the reflective judgements of ‘others’ made by individuals; of our ability to make decisions around the control of our feelings and identifications; and of the significance of personal pasts and collective histories in shaping the ways we perceive and react to encounters. Rather, this paper uses a biographical approach focusing on interviewees’ narratives of encounter. Through its attention to processes of mobility and emplacement, it contributes to debates about when contact with difference matters by highlighting the importance of everyday social normativities in the production of moral dispositions. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
- Subjects :
- URBAN studies
PREJUDICES
MINORITIES
SOCIAL change
SOCIAL groups
ETHICS
SOCIAL mobility
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00420980
- Volume :
- 51
- Issue :
- 9
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Urban Studies (Sage Publications, Ltd.)
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 96208768
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098013504142