Descripción del proyecto
Creación de mejores espacios urbanos para culturas diversas
El cambio en los estándares migratorios ha dado lugar a nuevas realidades en las ciudades globalizadas, caracterizadas por la diversidad cultural. Debido a la aparición de una población urbana migrante que es diferente a nivel social y económico y que mantiene vínculos transnacionales, se hizo indispensable desarrollar nuevos enfoques de la gobernanza que resultasen eficaces ante esta nueva situación. Se debate sobre el papel que pueden desempeñar las instituciones culturales como las universidades en la creación de espacios comunes donde personas de diferentes culturas puedan vivir e interactuar. El proyecto financiado con fondos europeos HubCities tiene como objetivo explorar y analizar cómo las ciudades globalizadas no occidentales utilizan las universidades y las instituciones culturales para hacer frente a estos retos nuevos. Se centrará especialmente en los casos de Doha y Singapur, dos ciudades particularmente diversificadas. Se investigará cómo se debate sobre la diversidad y cómo se percibe y trata.
Objetivo
Can cities plan their cultural diversity? What role do cultural and higher education policies play in promoting diverse cities? The HubCities project will analyse how cities use of universities and cultural institutions as instruments in the governance of cultural diversity, to target and attract transnational publics, construct discursive frameworks that promote diversity and create third spaces where people of different cultural backgrounds come together and interact. Changing migration patterns have led to the rise of an urban migrant population that is transnationally connected and socio-economically differentiated. This context renders traditional models of governance of cultural diversity obsolete and requires new approaches. As nation-states are being increasingly challenged on this issue, there has been a mounting push towards the urban scale to reflect on new strategies. HubCities aims to address this challenge with a focus on cultural and higher education policies as these play an important role in managing urban diversity yet are rarely envisaged as diversity policies. The project intends to investigate non-Western globalizing cities where this issue has been less studied. It focuses on two highly-diverse cities: Doha and Singapore. Using mixed research methods, the project will analyse these policies, drawing on Peggy Levitt’s notion of “diversity management regime” that designates the different “strategies, labels, and power relations underlying how difference gets talked about, measured, and negotiated”. The HubCities project will also use video as a methodological tool, to investigate the new spaces for culture and higher education planned in Doha and Singapore, and to contribute to the reflection on the role of such educational and cultural infrastructures in constructing civic spaces and stimulating interactions across diverse communities.
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MSCA-IF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF)Coordinador
50014 Fiesole
Italia