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Urban Encounters

Juxtapositions of Difference and the Communicative Interface of Global Cities

University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK, m.georgiou{at}leeds.ac.uk

This article explores the communicative interface of global cities, especially as it is shaped in the juxtapositions of difference in culturally diverse urban neighbourhoods. These urban zones present powerful examples, where different groups live cheek by jowl, in close proximity and in intimate interaction — desired or unavoidable. In these urban locations, the need to manage difference is synonymous to making them liveable and one's own. In seeking (and sometimes finding) a location in the city and a location in the world, urban dwellers shape their communication practices as forms of everyday, mundane and bottom-up tactics for the management of diversity. The article looks at three particular areas where cultural diversity and urban communication practices come together into meaningful political and cultural relations for a sustainable cosmopolitan life: citizenship, imagination and identity.

Key Words: cosmopolitanism • cultural citizenship • cultural diversity • diaspora • global city • urban communication

International Communication Gazette, Vol. 70, No. 3-4, 223-235 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/1748048508089949


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