Special issue introduction: Urban friendship networks: Affective negotiations and potentialities of care
Special issue introduction: Urban friendship networks: Affective negotiations and potentialities of care
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专题介绍：城市友谊网络：情感谈判与关怀的潜力
DOI：
10.1177/0042098017737281
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发表时间：
2018
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影响因子：
4.7
通讯作者：
T. Bunnell
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作者：
Laavanya Kathiravelu;T. Bunnell
在种族、国籍、移民地位和社会经济阶层等更大的结构框架内，融入、同化和“陌生人”在大都市中的地位问题已经被压倒性地概念化了。这提出并反映了围绕差异化战略、城市排斥和当代城市日常生活中固有的等级制度的重要问题。然而，在赋予这种分析模式特权的同时，城市环境中其他更具活力、弹性、潜伏性和隐蔽性的亲和力、关联性和联系形式往往被忽视。友谊就是其中之一。这期特刊中的文章开始更深入、更持久地关注友谊作为一种关系模式，它是许多城市互动的特征，也在人口结构多样化的城市空间中呈现出特殊的形式。这期特刊的特别贡献是将城市研究、多样性研究、对社会资本和网络的理解以及当代关于友谊的讨论的文献汇集在一起。对这一专题的介绍认为，采用友谊等替代调查框架可以打破关于同族团结的先验假设，并为理解社会网络提供替代的认识论起点。通过这样做，这项研究不仅有助于当代对不同城市的解读，而且扩大了对城市居民经常从事的例行公事、情感和物质劳动的理解。这篇文章呼吁关注像友谊这样的非正式纽带，认为正是在这样一个未知的领域里，才有了关怀和愉快的城市生活的可能性。
Issues of integration, assimilation and the place of ‘strangers’ within metropolitan contexts have been overwhelmingly conceptualised within the larger structural frames of ethnicity, nationality, immigration status and socio-economic class. This raises and reflects important issues around strategies of differentiation, urban exclusion and the hierarchies inherent in everyday life within contemporary cities. However, in privileging such modes of analysis, other more dynamic, elastic, latent and surreptitious forms of affinity, relatedness and connection within the urban environment are often left unexamined. Friendship is one of these. The articles in this special issue initiate a deeper and more sustained focus on friendship as a relational modality that characterises many urban interactions, and that also takes on particular forms within demographically diverse city spaces. The particular contribution of this special issue is in bringing together the literature from urban studies, research on diversity, understandings of social capital and networks and contemporary discussions of friendship. This introduction to the special issue argues that adopting alternative frameworks of enquiry such as friendship can serve to unsettle a priori assumptions about co-ethnic solidarity, and provide alternative epistemological starting points in understanding social networks. In doing so, this research not only contributes to contemporary readings of diverse cities but extends understandings of the routine affective and material labour that urban dwellers regularly undertake. Calling for a focus on informal bonds like friendship, this article suggests that it is within such unexplored spheres that possibilities of care and convivial city living exist.