Travels of theory across cities: diversity, social justice and urban change
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This article provides a brief historical review of assimilative, politico- economic and multicultural approaches relating diversity with claims for social justice in the U.S. and Europe. The literature review focuses on the transatlantic voyages of the concepts of the ‘stranger’ and the ‘right to the city’ and highlights processes of theory transference which are often silenced in debates about city paradigms. Then the article draws attention to how Mediterranean cities and Athens in particular, can contribute to a relational conceptualization of diversity capable of advancing the transformation of urban spaces.
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Αράπογλου Β. (2015). Travels of theory across cities: diversity, social justice and urban change. Science and Society: Journal of Political and Moral Theory, 30, 151–185. https://doi.org/10.12681/sas.646
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