Summary: Multicultural City Series

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• 1 Week 1 Diversity and Decoloniality

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• Why decolonizing- knowledge (re)production?

  - knowledge  (re)production is often very western-centric
  - can imagine in which other ways knowledge (re)production might be ''colonized''.
  -Does this mean non-western knowledge are less relevant
  - what about the knowledge of other underrepresented communities?

• What does this mean for Urban Studies?

  - think critically about the curriculum of the departement.
  - how we as scholars can approach the city from a perspective that always

• 3 week 3 past and Future cities

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• (raised question) how do we deal, imagine and how is our future monetized?

  A lot of global economics is saved investments. Invest and get a return. So, they have an interest in the prediction of countries on which investments are based they come true. For Africa that did not end up very well for African nations themselves.

• 4 paradigmatic city: mumbai

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• Is Mumbai a diverse city?

  Religious demographics:
  

  • Hindu (mostly)
  • muslim
  • christian
  • jain
  • parsi, buddhist, sikh, jew, and atheïst

• What are five scapes of globalization according to A. Appadurai?

  1. Mediascapes
     
  2. technoscapes
  3. ethnoscapes
  4. financescapes
  5. ideoscapes

  = Global cultural flows
  
  

• 6 Block 3: urban ulticulturalism in historical perspective

• 6.1 lecture 1

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• Why can we see Rome as a 'global city'?

  Long stretching networks of cultural and economic exchange. Even beyond the border they know the culture, globally network city (economic and cultural)

• Why do we imagine multicultural cities as new?

  19th century in Europe saw rise of modern nation states. Nations cultivated (or invented) shared identities and cultures. Nations policed their border, culturally (language for example) but also physically. Rise of passport, migration controls, universal citizenship. In the 20th century these European cities/ nations were very stable and nothing changes much. Economic development an fixed political units created demographic stability in these societies. NB. This story is VERY specific to Europe.

• Critique from the political centre

  Multiculturalism threatens overall social cohesion

• Critiques from political left

  • Multiculturalism has focused too much celebrating superfiical cultural feature
    
  • food
  • clothing
  • festivals
  • music
  • (....pp)