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Everyday urban encounters as stratification practices

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  • Peter Dirksmeier
  • Ilse Helbrecht

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Geographies of urban encounter explore how people live with difference in contemporary, super-diverse cities. For a deeper understanding of the role of encounters for living with cultural and social differences, we conceptualise encounters as manifestations of Foucauldian micro-mechanisms of power conducted by affects. Affects, understood as complex, reflexive states of being, are direct responses to social or environmental stimuli. Our main point is that affects have a great impact on situational struggles for interactional dominance as expressions of power. On the empirical basis of video-recorded chance interactions in Berlin and focus groups we analyse the influence affects display in mutual negotiations of power as situational stratifications between interlocutors. As our main result we conclude that spaces of mundane transgression emerge out of the impact of affects, which can be observed in moments of situational stratification on account of the influence that affects can have on passers-by.

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  • Peter Dirksmeier & Ilse Helbrecht, 2015. "Everyday urban encounters as stratification practices," City, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 19(4), pages 486-498, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:19:y:2015:i:4:p:486-498
    DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2015.1051734
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    1. Talja Blokland & Robert Vief & Daniela Krüger & Henrik Schultze, 2023. "Roots and routes in neighbourhoods. Length of residence, belonging and public familiarity in Berlin, Germany," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 60(10), pages 1949-1967, August.
    2. Brenda S. A. Yeoh, 2015. "Affective practices in the European city of encounter," City, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 19(4), pages 545-551, August.

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