About the project
The project asked:
- Which are the social and cultural processes that contribute to integration and sustainability in the suburb, and how are they embedded institutionally?
- Which are the processes encouraging non-local forms of belonging (ranging from virtual communities to national/ethnic loyalties and transnational ties), and how do they articulate with locality-enhancing processes?
- How do different social arenas and fields of discourse (ranging from sport and school to consumption and kinship) relate to each other with respect to "the production of locality"?
- In what ways are local identifications confronted with nonlocal ones, through e.g. w mobility, transnational ties and commitments, ethnic or religious loyalties?