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After the Cosmopolitan?: Multicultural Cities and the Future of Racism - Hardcover

Keith, Michael

 
9780415341684: After the Cosmopolitan?: Multicultural Cities and the Future of Racism
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 041534168X ISBN 13: 9780415341684
Publisher: Routledge, 2005

Synopsis

After the Cosmopolitan? argues that both racial divisions and intercultural dialogue can only be understood in the context of the urbanism through which they are realized.

All the key debates in cultural theory and urban studies are covered in detail:

  • the growth of cultural industries and the marketing of cities
  • social exclusion and violence
  • the nature of the ghetto
  • the cross-disciplinary conceptualization of cultural hybridity
  • the politics of third-way social policy.

In considering the ways in which race is played out in the world's most eminent cities, Michael Keith shows that neither the utopian naiveté of some invocations of cosmopolitan democracy, nor the pessimism of multicultural hell can adequately make sense of the changing nature of contemporary metropolitan life.

Authoritative and informative, this book will be of interest to advanced undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers of anthropology, cultural studies, geography, politics and sociology.

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Michael Keith

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2005
Language
English
ISBN 10 
041534168X
ISBN 13 
9780415341684
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
240