Media
Before I die' wall coming to Toronto this summer
Toronto Star. Reporter: Katie Daubs, May 23, 2012Print
Daubs, Katie (2012) '‘Before I die’ wall coming to Toronto this summer.' The Toronto Star, Toronto, 23 May 2012, p. GT1, GT11.
What Affects Perceptions of Neighbourhood Change?
Published by The Canadian Geographer/Le Géographe canadien
forthcoming (accepted) co-authors: Gosse, Meghan, Howard Ramos, Martha Radice, Jill L Grant, and Paul Pritchard
Unpacking intercultural conviviality in multiethnic commercial streets
Published by Journal of Intercultural Studies 37(5): 432-448 (special issue on Conviviality)
October 15, 2016
Conviviality has recently been taken up to capture everyday living-with-difference in multiethnic cities. Although it has usually been operationalised through an analysis of social interactions framed in neighbourhood or community settings, this article shifts the focus to more tightly delimited public places. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in four multiethnic neighbourhood commercial streets in Montréal, Quebec, it proposes a model that unpacks conviviality in place through four components: microplaces, codes of sociability, perceived intergroup relations, and place image (critical infrastructure). The article further argues that while conviviality not only pertains to relations across cultural difference, when it is intercultural, it overlaps conceptually with everyday cosmopolitanism – situated, emergent practices and discourses of openness to, and engagement with, cultural others. It uses the place-based model of conviviality to show how each of the commercial streets has its own distinct variety of everyday cosmopolitanism. Unpacking conviviality in place keeps us attuned to the many dimensions of social relations that make up contemporary cities.
URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07256868.2016.1211624
Putting the public in public art: An ethnographic approach to two temporary art installations
Published by City & Society
forthcoming (accepted)
Micro-cosmopolitanisms at the urban scale
Published by Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, special issue on ‘Mobility and Cosmopolitanism: Complicating the Interaction between Aspiration and Practice’, 22(5): 588-602
January 1, 2016
Scholars may no longer see cosmopolitanism as the preserve of the jet-setting elite, but they still tend to focus on international travel as the primary means of acquiring cosmopolitan competence. However, one should not confuse mindsets with mileage: if travel does not always generate cosmopolitanism, then neither is it a precondition for it, so stay-at-homes can become cosmopolitan too. This article draws on ethnographic fieldwork in multiethnic neighbourhoods of Montréal, Quebec, to show how cosmopolitanism can be produced and practised within the microcosm of the city. While international mobility is not necessarily part of these negotiations of difference, other kinds of spatial and social mobility are, especially intra-urban mobility and mobility of the imagination. Examining micro-cosmopolitanism at the urban scale, however, also reveals that practices of and aspirations towards cosmopolitanism do not necessarily coincide.
URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1070289X.2014.975711
La cohabitation interethnique dans quatre quartiers de classe moyenne à Montréal : deux petites leçons tirées des discours sur la diversité
Published by Diversité urbaine, 14(1): 5-24
January 1, 2014
co-authors: Germain, Annick, Xavier Leloup and Martha Radice
"Ici, c’est polyethnique": les cadrages de la diversité ethnique dans quatre quartiers de classes moyennes à Montréal
Published by Lien social et politiques no. 76 (Les quartiers urbains en transformation)
forthcoming (accepted) co-authors: Leloup, Xavier, Annick Germain, and Martha Radice.
Biography
Martha Radice is a social anthropologist whose work focuses on the social, spatial and cultural dynamics of cities. She has investigated social relations, especially interethnic relations, and the production of space in multiethnic commercial streets in Montréal. Her ongoing areas of interest are urban anthropology, public space, public art and public culture, multiculturalism and cosmopolitanism, applied urban research, and ethnographic methods.
Radice's current research explores carnival culture in New Orleans, for which she has been awarded a New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation Archive Fellowship (2017) and a SSHRC Insight Grant (2018-2023). She also works with Jill Grant and Howard Ramos on the Halifax team of the Canada-wide Neighbourhood Change Research Project. Her past interdisciplinary research-creation project with Solomon Nagler and Kim Morgan at NSCAD University explored how art can shape the urban public and, conversely, how the urban public can shape artistic production, and resulted in the book Urban Encounters: Art and the Public, co-edited with Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier.
Radice is editor-in-chief of the Journal for Undergraduate Ethnography and Co-Chair of the first ever joint conference of the Canadian Anthropology Society and the American Anthropological Association. She can provide copies of most of her publications by email.
Recognition/Reconnaissance
Burgess Research Award | Professional
Teaching release, awarded on a competitive basis to provide extra time for research. Awarded Fall 2013, taken up Winter 2015.
Research Grants
Grasping Joy: New-Wave Carnival Krewes in New Orleans
Organization: SSHRCDate: April 30, 2018
Grant amount: $183000
Details:
This qualitative research explores carnival "krewes" in New Orleans - the social clubs that produce the parades an parties of carnival - as living laboratories of happiness. It looks into what activities bring people joy as well as how matters of privilege, power, and access to resources can shape people's happiness. Collaborator: Dr. Helen Regis, Louisiana State University.
Tracing the City: Interventions of Art in Public Space
Organization: SSHRC Research-Creation Grant in the Fine ArtsDate: April 30, 2011
Grant amount: 237411
Details:
2011-2015. Co-applicant, ‘Tracing the City: Interventions of Art in Public Space.’ SSHRC Research-Creation Grant in the Fine Arts no. 848-2010-0019, $237 411. PI: Solomon Nagler, NSCAD University; co-applicant : Kim Morgan, NSCAD University. Collaborators: Christopher Kaltenbach, NSCAD University; Ellen Moffat, independent artist; Erin Wunker, Dalhousie University.
Perceptions of Change in Atlantic Cities
Organization: SSHRC Insight GrantDate: April 30, 2015
Grant amount: 418000
Details:
2015-2020. Co-applicant, ‘Perceptions of Change in Atlantic Cities’, SSHRC Insight Grant, $418 000, PI: Howard Ramos, Dalhousie University. Other co-applicants: Lisa Kaider, Mark Stoddart, Memorial U Newfoundland; James McDonald, UNB. Collaborators: Jill Grant, Daniel Rainham, Yoko Yoshida, Dalhousie U; Rima Wilkes, UBC; Michael Haan, Luc Thériault, UNB.
Neighbourhood Change Research Partnership
Organization: SSHRC Partnership GrantDate: April 30, 2012
Grant amount: 2500000
Details:
2012-2019. Co-applicant, ‘Neighbourhood Inequality, Diversity, and Change: Trends, Processes, Consequences, and Policy Options for Canada's Large Metropolitan Areas.’ Short name: ‘Neighbourhood Change Research Partnership.’ SSHRC Partnership Grant no. 895-2011-1004, $2.5 million. PI: J David Hulchanski, University of Toronto. Halifax team leader: Jill Grant, School of Planning, Dalhousie University. See http://neighbourhoodchange.ca/about/research-team/ for full list of co-applicants and community partners.
More information: http://neighbourhoodchange.ca/