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Passing Propinquities in the Multicultural City: the everyday encounters of bus passengering

Wilson, H. F.

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Abstract

This paper examines how intercultural relations are continuously developed, destroyed, and remade in the practice of everyday bus travel. Through an ethnographic study of one bus route across Birmingham, UK, the paper explores the formation of relational practices on the move and the bodily orientations, public codes of conduct, material cultures, habits and affects through which they are formed. In particular, this paper gives specific attention to the tacit obligations of public travel and how such obligations both produce and sustain tolerance of others across a journey, to further reveal the multifaceted nature and workings of multicultural intimacies on the ground. In so doing, the paper responds to recent calls to politically revalorise public mobility spaces as key sites of encounter and identity formation, to position the bus as a crucial site of everyday multiculture through which wider processes of differentiation and exclusion are experienced and further understood.

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Wilson, H. F. (2011). Passing Propinquities in the Multicultural City: the everyday encounters of bus passengering. Environment and Planning A, 43(3), 634-649. https://doi.org/10.1068/a43354

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Feb 1, 2011
Online Publication Date Mar 1, 2011
Publication Date 2011-03
Deposit Date Dec 6, 2011
Journal Environment and Planning A
Print ISSN 0308-518X
Electronic ISSN 1472-3409
Publisher SAGE Publications
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 43
Issue 3
Pages 634-649
DOI https://doi.org/10.1068/a43354
Public URL https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1502606



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