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Animal Encounters: a genre of contact (2017)
Book Chapter
Wilson, H. F. (in press). Animal Encounters: a genre of contact. In A. Bohm, & J. Ullrich (Eds.), Animal Encounters: Contact, Interaction and Relationality. J.B.Metzler

On the Paradox of ‘Organised’ Encounter (2017)
Journal Article
Wilson, H. F. (2017). On the Paradox of ‘Organised’ Encounter. Journal of Intercultural Studies, 38(6), 606-620. https://doi.org/10.1080/07256868.2017.1386631

Encounters are politically and pedagogically charged. They have long been celebrated for their ability to chip away at prejudices, enact cultural destabilisations, shape subjectivities, and produce new knowledges. Yet encounters come with risk. The p... Read More about On the Paradox of ‘Organised’ Encounter.

Everyday Brexits (2017)
Journal Article
Anderson, B., & Wilson, H. (2018). Everyday Brexits. Area, 50(2), 291-295. https://doi.org/10.1111/area.12385

In this commentary we explore how geographers might respond to the event of ‘Brexit’ – the decision and process of the United Kingdom to leave the European Union after the referendum of 23 June 2016. Although it is necessary to understand the ways in... Read More about Everyday Brexits.

Encounters. (2016)
Book Chapter
Wilson, H. F. (2016). Encounters. In M. Jayne, & K. Ward (Eds.), Urban Theory: New Critical Perspectives (109-121). Routledge

The possibilities of encounter. (2016)
Book Chapter
Wilson, H. F., & Darling, J. (2016). The possibilities of encounter. In H. F. Wilson, & J. Darling (Eds.), Encountering the City: Urban Encounters from Accra to New York (1-24). Routledge

An urban laboratory for the multicultural nation? (2015)
Journal Article
Wilson, H. F. (2015). An urban laboratory for the multicultural nation?. Ethnicities, 15(4), 586-604. https://doi.org/10.1177/1468796815577703

At a time when urban space is considered central to understanding how multicultural societies cohere, this paper examines how the urban and the nation are related. To do so, the paper focuses upon Birmingham, UK, which has been presented as a testing... Read More about An urban laboratory for the multicultural nation?.

The Possibilities of Tolerance: Intercultural Dialogue in a Multicultural Europe (2014)
Journal Article
Wilson, H. F. (2014). The Possibilities of Tolerance: Intercultural Dialogue in a Multicultural Europe. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 32(5), 852-868. https://doi.org/10.1068/d13063p

Tolerance is everywhere. The Council of Europe endeavours to build it, schools are required to teach it, and neighbours are asked to extend it. It features in citizenship ceremonies, city-marketing campaigns, and religious texts and is attached to a... Read More about The Possibilities of Tolerance: Intercultural Dialogue in a Multicultural Europe.

Collective life: parents, playground encounters and the multicultural city. (2013)
Journal Article
Wilson, H. F. (2013). Collective life: parents, playground encounters and the multicultural city. Social and Cultural Geography, 14(6), 625-648. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2013.800220

For parents, the school playground is a site of daily intermingling—an important and yet often overlooked site of sociality. Yet whilst it is a space where common needs and experiences are shared, and where friendships and subtle gestures of familiar... Read More about Collective life: parents, playground encounters and the multicultural city..

Multicultural learning: parent encounters with difference in a Birmingham primary school. (2013)
Journal Article
Wilson, H. F. (2014). Multicultural learning: parent encounters with difference in a Birmingham primary school. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 39(1), 102-114. https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12015

In the UK, schools are considered vital to the realisation of intercultural cities, to the strengthening of community relations and to the development of new forms of social learning. This paper brings work on the geographies of education and learnin... Read More about Multicultural learning: parent encounters with difference in a Birmingham primary school..

Learning to think differently: Diversity training and the ‘good encounter’ (2012)
Journal Article
Wilson, H. F. (2013). Learning to think differently: Diversity training and the ‘good encounter’. Geoforum, 45, 73-82. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2012.10.001

At a time of ongoing economic and social insecurity the capacity to live with difference is under renewed strain. In this context, community outreach organisations and projects of intervention that deal with diversity-related tensions are essential.... Read More about Learning to think differently: Diversity training and the ‘good encounter’.