Studying Diversity, Migration and Urban Multiculture Studying Diversity, Migration and Urban Multiculture Convivial Tools for Research and Practice Edited by Mette Louise Berg and Magdalena Nowicka First published in 2019 by UCL Press University College London Gower Street London WC1E 6BT Available to download free: www.uclpress.co.uk Text © Contributors, 2019 Images © Contributors and copyright holders named in the captions, 2019 The authors have asserted their rights under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 to be identified as the authors of this work. A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from The British Library. This book is published under a Creative Commons 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0). This licence allows you to share, copy, distribute and transmit the work; to adapt the work and to make commercial use of the work providing attribution is made to the authors (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work). 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Introduction: Convivial tools for research and practice 1 Mette Louise Berg and Magdalena Nowicka Part I: Conceptualising and performing conviviality 15 2. Convivial research between normativity and analytical innovation 17 Magdalena Nowicka 3. Convivial practices in communities of research 36 Ann Phoenix Part II: Convivial collaborations 57 4. The fabric of faith: A reflection on creative arts practice research 59 Claire Dwyer, Nazneen Ahmed and Katy Beinart 5. Examining conviviality and cultural mediation in arts-based workshops with child language brokers: Narrations of identity and (un)belonging 76 Sarah Crafter and Humera Iqbal 6. Migration, memory and place: Arts and walking as convivial methodologies in participatory research – A visual essay 96 Maggie O’Neill, Bea Giaquinto and Fahira Hasedžić v Part III: Ethics, relationships and power 121 7. Failing better at convivially researching spaces of diversity 123 Ben Gidley 8. Making something out of nothing: On failure and hope in community activism and research 141 Agata Lisiak and Alicja Kaczmarek 9. Ethnographies of urban encounters in super-diverse contexts: Insights from Shepherd’s Bush, west London 159 Adele Galipo Part IV: Reflections on convivial research and practice 173 10. Strategies to make conviviality the heart of campaigns for the rights of migrants 175 Don Flynn 11. Breaking down barriers to co-production between research teams and civil society organisations 186 Karin Woodley and Charlotte Gilsenan 12. Afterword: Giving multiculture a name 192 Les Back Index 197 vi CONTENTS List of figures Figure 4.1 Fabric of Faith sewing group, July 2016. Source: authors 67 Figure 4.2 My Life is but a Weaving installation, St Thomas’s Church, April 2017. Source: authors 69 Figure 5.1 Fernanda shows the group how to create an ‘identity-map’ reflecting their feelings on their country of origin, the UK, and ‘now’. Source: Pia Jaime 84 Figure 5.2 In this picture, Kitty has brought in some bracelets as her ‘objects of importance’. Source: Pia Jaime 85 Figure 5.3 In this picture, Ania is telling the rest of the group about her sketch of her hand ­sculpture. Source: Pia Jaime 85 Figure 5.4a–c These photographs capture the final design of Ofelia’s hand sculpture. Source: Pia Jaime 88 Figure 5.5a–b These photographs capture the final design of Jola’s hand sculpture. Source: Pia Jaime 89 Figure 6.1 Good Neighbour installation by Fahira Hasedžić. Source: Karen Fraser 105 Figure 6.2 Nottingham Trent University. Source: Bea Giaquinto 108 Figure 6.3 Nottingham Theatre Royal. Source: Bea Giaquinto 111 Figure 6.4 Nottingham Market Square. Source: Bea Giaquinto 112 Figure 6.5 Castle mosaic. Source: Bea Giaquinto 113 vii Contributors Editors Mette Louise Berg is an anthropologist and associate professor at the Thomas Coram Research Unit within the Department of Social Science at UCL. She was previously at the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS), University of Oxford. Her research interests include migra- tion, diasporas and transnationalism, urban diversity and conviviality, gender and generation, and ethnographic methods. Mette has conducted fieldwork on diversity in London, and has worked on the Cuban diaspora for many years. Magdalena Nowicka is a sociologist and professor of migration and transnationalism at the Institute of Social Sciences at Humboldt Uni- versity of Berlin, and head of the Integration Department at DeZIM e.V. (German Center for Integration and Migration Research) in Berlin. Her interests are in qualitative research methods, interethnic relations and dynamics of social inequality. Contributors Nazneen Ahmed is a research associate on the Making Suburban Faith project. She has a doctorate in postcolonial literature from Wadham Col- lege Oxford, and has worked at the Universities of Kent and Oxford. Her recent publications include ‘Historicizing Diaspora Spaces: Performing Faith, Place and Race in London’s East End’ (in Religion in Diaspora, edited by Sondra L. Hausner and Jane Garnett, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). Les Back is professor of sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London. His work attempts to create a sensuous or live sociology committed to new modes of sociological writing and representation. His books include: Live viii Methods with Nirmal Puwar (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012); Cultural Sociology: An Introduction with Andy Bennett, Laura Desfor Edles, Margaret Gib- son, David Inglis, Ronald Jacobs and Ian Woodward (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012); The Art of Listening (Berg, 2007); Auditory Cultures Reader with Michael Bull (Berg, 2003); Out of Whiteness with Vron Ware (University of Chicago Press, 2002); The Changing Face of Football: Racism and Mul- ticulture in the English Game, with Tim Crabbe and John Solomos (Berg, 2001); New Ethnicities and Urban Culture: Racisms and Multiculture in Young Lives (Routledge, 1996). In 2011, he published a free online book called Academic Diary (http://www.academic-diary.co.uk/) that argues for the values of scholarship and teaching. In April 2016, a book version of the blog was published including a lot of new writing entitled Aca- demic Diary: Or Why Higher Education Still Matters. He also writes jour- nalism and has made documentary films. Katy Beinart is a lecturer in architecture at the University of Brighton and a multidisciplinary artist whose work includes projects for the National Trust, Canal & River Trust, and the Ghetto Biennale in Haiti. She has recently completed a practice-based PhD at UCL, which explored salt, migration and regeneration in Brixton, London (http://www.katybeinart. co.uk/saltedearth.html). Sarah Crafter is a senior lecturer in the School of Psychology at the Open University. She has a PhD in cultural psychology and human devel- opment, and her theoretical and conceptual interests are grounded in sociocultural theory, transitions, critical or contested ideas of ‘normative’ development and cultural identity development. Her work with child language brokers grew out of a broader interest in the constructions or representations of childhood in culturally diverse settings. Claire Dwyer is professor of human geography at UCL and co-director of the Migration Research Unit. She led the research project Making Sub- urban Faith (2014–18), funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, and has research interests in the geographies of migration and multiculturalism. Her publications include New Geographies of Race and Racism (Ashgate, 2008) and Identitites and Subjectivities (Springer, 2016). Don Flynn has worked in the field of migration policy since the mid-1970s, when he started work as a caseworker at a London law centre. Since then, he has worked as policy officer for the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants, a national legal rights organisation. He currently leads the CONTRIBUTORS ix Migrants’ Rights Network (MRN), which works to improve networking between migrant and refugee community organisations and other civil soci- ety organisations working to support the rights of all migrants. He is also involved in networking with migrants’ rights organisations across Europe and is a former chair of PICUM – the Platform for International Cooper- ation on Undocumented Migrants. He is a member of the steering group of the UK Race and Europe Network (UKREN). UKREN brings together groups concerned with racial equality in the UK with an interest in monitoring and influencing development in the rest of Europe. He regularly writes on themes relating to the politics of immigration and blogs on the MRN website (http://www.migrantsrights.org.uk). He tweets as @donflynnmrn. Adele Galipo is a social anthropologist and honorary research associate at the UCL Department of Social Science. She was previously a Swiss National Science Foundation fellow and visiting academic at the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS), University of Oxford. Her research interests include return migration, transnationalism, diasporas and refugees, urban diversity and conviviality, gender, humanitarian action, and international development. Bea Giaquinto has since the 1990s worked with communities on the margins, including refugees and asylum seekers, homeless and vulner- ably housed people, and new emerging communities.