Super-diverse street: a 'trans-ethnography' across migrant localities

Lecture by dr. Suzanne Hall (London School of Economics and Political Science)

Lecture

Dr Suzanne Hall will discuss an ethnography of the economic and cultural life of Rye Lane, an intensely multi-ethnic street in Peckham, South London. The effects of accelerated migration into London are explored through the reshaping and diversification of its interior, street and city spaces. A ‘trans-ethnography’ is pursued across the compendium of micro, meso and macro urban spaces, without reifying one above the other.

The ethnographic stretch across intimate, collective and symbolic city spaces serves to connect how the restrictions and circuits of urban migration have different impacts and expressions in these distinctive but interrelated urban localities. Hall argues for a ‘trans-ethnography’ that engages within and across a compendium of urban localities, to understand how accelerated migration and urban ‘super-diversity’ transform the contemporary global city.

Dr Suzanne Hall

Suzanne Hall is an urban ethnographer, and has practiced as an architect in South Africa. Her research and teaching interests include social and economic forms of inclusion and exclusion in the context of global urbanisation, and she currently focuses on the micro-economies and spaces of urban migration. From 1997 to 2003 her practice engaged with the role of design in the context of rapid urbanisation in poor and racially segregated areas in Cape Town, and her work has been published and exhibited nationally and internationally. Hall was recently awarded an ESRC Future Research Leaders grant (2015-2017) for a comparative project on ‘Super-diverse Streets: Economies and spaces of urban migration in UK Cities’. 

Participation

Free, followed by drinks. Please register via: urbanstudies@uva.nl

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