Standing Committee

Superdiversity, Migration and Cultural Change

DIVCULT aims to better understand the relevance of arts and culture in the theoretical and policy debates about immigrant incorporation and diversity in Europe and beyond. Over the last years, artistic activities have found increasing interest among migration researchers because they prove to be a means of moving beyond ethnic differences towards narratives of identity and belonging that are more apt to capture the current post-migrant reality in many cities and countries.

We intend to cover a wide range of artistic and cultural activities in our analyses ranging from music, literature, cinema and theatre to sports, fashion, clothing, design and food.

The idea is to jointly work on the following dimensions: 

  • Theoretical and conceptual issues
  • Methodologies
  • Relevance and social impact

These dimensions constitute the general framework in which the researchers involved can initiate joint research activities, organise workshops and conferences and prepare publications.

DIVCULT builds on previous work carried out in the IMISCOE Standing Committee on Popular Art, Diversity and Cultural Policies in Post-Migration Urban Settings (POPADIVCIT) founded in 2010. POPADIVCIT focussed on the political and institutional framework of immigrant artistic activities, the social relations between all actors involved as well as on their impact in particular in terms of political participation and mobilisation. The work has resulted in several special issues of journals.  

Names of coordinators

Marco Martiniello

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Wiebke Sievers

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Agenda of activities 

DIVCULT has organized a conference open to all of its members on 30-31 January 2020 in Brussels in order to discuss theoretical, methodological and impact issues connected to the SC topics and to prepare a concrete plan of activities for the coming four years.

Output

25-26 September 2019, Liège: Conference Immigration, Cultural Participation and New Forms of Political Solidarity: Global Perspectives, http://blogs.ulg.ac.be/arts-minorites/en/immigration-cultural-participation-and-new-forms-of-political-solidarity-global-perspectives  

Special issues prepared in the framework of the SC POPADIVCIT:

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