Absorbing the agony of agonism? The limits of cultural questioning and alternative variations of intercultural civility

Bart van Leeuwen

Urban Studies, 2015, vol. 52, issue 4, 793-808

Abstract: Recently the political philosophy of agonism has been applied by urban theorists to model intercultural urban encounters in so-called ‘micro-publics’, such as the workplace or the classroom. The paper examines to what extent agonism offers a viable model for dealing with urban diversity in these mundane, social encounters. I will argue that, applied to these lower-level social contexts, agonism takes the vulnerability of citizens with regard to their ethnic, cultural or religious attachments insufficiently into account. The resulting injuries will most likely be counter-productive to the goal of living with diversity. By way of a contrast, I will offer two less demanding, more practicable types of intercultural civility.

Keywords: agonism; indifference; intercultural civility; micro-publics; respect; urban diversity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1177/0042098014528548

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