Rethinking co-existence from the margins
How do we live together?
Between growing diversity and rising inequalities, this simple question has turned into a challenge for many democratic societies.
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About co-imagine
Beyond debates about integration and the alleged incompatibility between cultures, the project zooms in into people’s everyday relationships unfolding in a cosmopolitan metropolis, a provincial town, and a rural area in Finland and France. Drawing on ethnographic methods, it explores how different people inhabit these places together, the bonds they form with others (or the lack thereof), and their struggles to build a meaningful existence there.
Latest posts
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BLOG POST: Making relative place in eastern Helsinki
In a fieldwork blog post Saara Toukolehto ponders about relative discourses of place through which her interlocutors both described as well as manipulated the sense of place they…
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BLOG POST: The distant others and conferencing in troubled times
This year’s ETMU conference theme – ‘breaking barriers’ – cannot be separated from the broader context of an escalated state violence with regard to migration control and authoritarian tendencies…
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BLOG POST: Da Bus*—Density in everyday encounters
In a fieldwork blog post Bruno Lefort shares an encounter he had with an elderly lady on the bus while conducting fieldwork in the provincial town of Troyes,…