Inclusion and exclusion in the suburb

• 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?

The sub-projects relating to these overarching research questions look at:

• the residential environment

• mobility and immobility

• public spaces and meeting-places

• school mobility and school change

• the role of local media

• electronic communication and transnational media

• cultural hybridity and mixing

• narratives of the past and social memory

• religion