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SUMMARY:Crisis in Berlin and Paris: Diversity\, Culture\, and the Good Lif
 e - Sami Everett and Jan Bock (Woolf Institute)
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CONTACT:Jan- Jonathan Bock
DESCRIPTION:The crisis year 2015 forced Europeans to reflect intensely on 
 issues of migration\, integration\, culture\, citizenship\, and collective
  identity. In France\, the January killings at Charlie Hebdo and in a Kosh
 er superstore\, and the November gun attacks in northern Paris\, intensifi
 ed debates about the co-existence of cultural and religious groups. The ye
 ar of terror was accompanied by the significant electoral success of the f
 ar-right Front National\, which advocates the return to a pre-globalisatio
 n\, pre-diversity\, pre-European France. In Germany\, the arrival of over 
 one million refugees revealed inadequacies in public administration\, whic
 h struggled with the influx of up to 10\,000 people daily. The national mo
 od was initially largely in favour of receiving the newcomers. When their 
 numbers stabilized at high rates and politicians called the situation a na
 tional emergency\, however\, Germans became divided between supporters and
  harsh critics of Chancellor Merkel’s refusal to close the country’s b
 orders.\n\nIn their paper\, Sami Everett and Jan Bock analyse the impact o
 f contemporary crises on debates about diversity\, cultural difference\, a
 nd belonging\, focussing on their respective research sites in two Europea
 n capitals. They illustrate how Berliners and Parisians experienced challe
 nges and violent transformations during the year 2015 through an examinati
 on of questions that were much neglected in media discourses on exceptiona
 l crisis scenarios: what does it mean to live a good life in 21st-century 
 urban neighbourhoods? \n\nDrinks and snacks will be served. Everyone is we
 lcome.
LOCATION:The Garden Room\, St Edmund's College
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