Introduction
Chapter 1: The Setting: Salt in the 21st Century
Chapter 2: Social Conflicts: Negotiating Borders and Boundaries
Chapter 3: Spaces of Conflict, Conflicts over Space
Chapter 4: An Iron Fist in a Velvet Glove: From Zero-Tolerance to Policies of Quieting and Convivència
Chapter 5: Between Territorial Stigma and Rural Gentrification: A Rurban Paradise for the Middle-Class?
Chapter 6: Openings and Closures
References
Annex 1: Dramatis Personae
Index
Martin Lundsteen (PhD in social anthropology) is currently a Carlsberg Foundation Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford and Carlsberg Junior Research Fellow at Linacre College. He also teaches in migration and urban studies at Pompeu Fabra University and the University of Girona.
"In the flood of books on immigration, urban ethnic tension, and
gentrification, Convivencia stands out for its multi-scalar design,
the elegance of its theory, and the richness of its field data.
Lundsteen takes the reader deep inside a small town of Catalonia to
show how global forces, national crisis, and local institutions
mesh to produce economic dislocation and class polarization as well
as their obfuscation by a discourse of cultural alterity.
Convivencia is a first-rate contribution to critical anthropology
of the present." --Loïc Wacquant, author of Urban Outcasts and The
Invention of the "Underclass" "Across Europe, race and ethnicity
have been recast as culture. In this closely observed and acute
analysis of the politics of 'convivencia' in Salt, Martin Lundsteen
untangles the politics of integration, collaboration, and
resistance. He exposes how convivencia obscures class and raced
origins of social conflict and the commonalities shared by
'migrants' and citizens and traces opportunities for new kinds of
politics." --Bridget Anderson, Director of Migration Mobilities
Bristol at University of Bristol "This book is an on the spot urban
governance ethnography in a hotspot of urban racialized conflict
that demystifies the Spanish/European polemics around immigration,
conviviality, xenophobia, and youth violence and poverty on the
ground in an era of neoliberal urban gentrification." --Philippe
Bourgois, author of In Search of Respect and Righteous Dopefiend
"In this innovative take on contemporary migration in Europe,
Martin Lundsteen shows us how migration and urban transformations
play out and are perceived in a small town in Catalonia. However,
the analysis does not stop there. In contrast to much literature in
migration studies, the detailed ethnographic analysis here is quite
audaciously articulated within the larger framework of the global
forces at play in current forms of economic, political, and social
structures. This way, Lundsteen combines the world as most people
understand it with the world as it is actually, evolving towards an
extreme form of capitalism. This is a powerful, highly relevant,
and timely book, recommended to anyone interested in migration and
urban studies." --Saskia Sassen, Columbia University "Convivencia
by Martin Lundsteen is a fine-grained and multi-scalar ethnography
of contemporary ideologies regarding ethnic and racial urban
conflicts." --Ethnic and Racial Studies
Across Europe, race and ethnicity have been recast as culture. In
this closely observed and acute analysis of the politics of
'convivencia' in Salt, Martin Lundsteen untangles the politics of
integration, collaboration, and resistance. He exposes how
convivencia obscures class and raced origins of social conflict and
the commonalities shared by 'migrants' and citizens and traces
opportunities for new kinds of politics.
Convivencia by Martin Lundsteen is a fine-grained and multi-scalar
ethnography of contemporary ideologies regarding ethnic and racial
urban conflicts.
In the flood of books on immigration, urban ethnic tension, and
gentrification, Convivencia stands out for its multi-scalar design,
the elegance of its theory, and the richness of its field data.
Lundsteen takes the reader deep inside a small town of Catalonia to
show how global forces, national crisis, and local institutions
mesh to produce economic dislocation and class polarization as well
as their obfuscation by a discourse of cultural alterity.
Convivencia is a first-rate contribution to critical anthropology
of the present.
In this innovative take on contemporary migration in Europe, Martin
Lundsteen shows us how migration and urban transformations play out
and are perceived in a small town in Catalonia. However, the
analysis does not stop there. In contrast to much literature in
migration studies, the detailed ethnographic analysis here is quite
audaciously articulated within the larger framework of the global
forces at play in current forms of economic, political, and social
structures. This way, Lundsteen combines the world as most people
understand it with the world as it is actually, evolving towards an
extreme form of capitalism. This is a powerful, highly relevant,
and timely book, recommended to anyone interested in migration and
urban studies.
This book is an on the spot urban governance ethnography in a
hotspot of urban racialized conflict that demystifies the
Spanish/European polemics around immigration, conviviality,
xenophobia, and youth violence and poverty on the ground in an era
of neoliberal urban gentrification.
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