Multiculture and Public Parks: Researching Super-diversity and Attachment in Public Green Space

• Published in: Population space and place Vol. 21; no. 5; pp. 463 - 475
• Main Authors: Neal, Sarah, Bennett, Katy, Jones, Hannah, Cochrane, Allan, Mohan, Giles
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.07.2015
• Subjects: Attachment; Crosscultural Differences; Cultural aspects; Cultural Pluralism; Culture; diversity; Economic research; Economics; encounter; Encounters; Exchange; Fieldwork; materiality; multiculture; Parks; Population; public parks; Public Space; Public spaces; research practices; Social aspects; Social research; Space; Urban Areas

Situating itself in encounter and public space debates and borrowing from non‐representational theory approaches, this paper uses data from the authors' 2‐year Economic and Social Research Council research project to consider how local urban parks can work as sites of routine encounter, mixity,...