The contributors combine top-down and bottom-up perspectives from a variety of large, mid-size and small European cities to make sense of the links between migrants and ethnic groups and artistic change at the local level. They examine how the city as an artistic space is changed by minority artistic expression and also how local cultural institutions change minority artistic expressions. The chapter authors are drawn from broad variety of disciplines, including anthropology, cultural studies, political science, sociology, urban studies and planning, offering the reader a broad variety of perspectives and insights into this area.
This book was originally published as a special issue of Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power.
Marco Martiniello is Research Director at the Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research (FRS-FNRS) and a Professor of Sociology at the University of Liège, Belgium. He is the director of the Center for Ethnic and Migration Studies, CEDEM-University of Liège, Belgium.