Conviviality is not enough: a communication perspective to the city of difference

Georgiou, Myria (2016) Conviviality is not enough: a communication perspective to the city of difference. Communication, Culture & Critique . ISSN 1753-9137

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Abstract

This article interrogates the ways in which urban communication enables or prevents politics of conviviality in the multicultural city. A multimethod, primarily qualitative, study in a London neighborhood exposed extensive communicative fragmentation along ethnic and class lines. Does such communicative separation lead to segregation? Is togetherness ever possible? Rather than a togetherness/separation binary, our study revealed a dialectic that rests upon diverging distribution of modes of communication in the city: media often separate urban dwellers and face-to-face communication brings them together in momentary but important association. This dialectic and its various incarnations give rise to a spectrum of politics of conviviality: civility through Othering; civility through negotiation of We-ness and Otherness; and politics of civic engagement and solidarity.

Item Type:	Article
Official URL:	http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(IS...
Additional Information:	© 2016 International Communication Association
Library of Congress subject classification:	H Social Sciences > HE Transportation and Communications H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races
Sets:	Departments > Media and Communications
Date Deposited:	08 Jul 2016 15:48
URL:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/67088/

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