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Taking a multimodal focus on superdiversity, this project focuses on the voices of Leeds Kirkgate Market – a historical linguistic/cultural hub for dense interethnic exchanges that is currently undergoing rapid change.

Within this pilot stage, we consider processes of exceptional multi-ethnic accommodation and micro-interaction in Kirkgate Market within a wider discursive context of inter-ethnic conflict as increasingly normative.

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News

UGRLS Scholar practices ethnography in Kirkgate Market

Introduction by Penny Rivlin. In this post, Leeds Voices Undergraduate Research & Leadership Scholarship Award scholar Rianna Haree reflects on her new role and first...

Scoping trip: Newcastle Grainger Market

By Tom Jackson Following the highly successful multimodal analysis of Leeds Kirkgate Market, the ‘voices’ team are planning a wider study of city markets in...

'The City Talking': Sara Gonzalez featured in film on Kirkgate Market

The Guardian journalist John Baron has produced a film, 'The City Talking: John Baron on Kirkgate Market' which features Leeds Voices team member and coordinator...

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Events

Elisabetta Adami seminar at Lancaster University

Elisabetta Adami, University of Leeds Posted on 27 April by Penny Rivlin Towards a multimodal analysis of (super)diversity in place Tuesday 17 May 1:00 –...

Leeds Voices presents at UCL

Leeds Voices Co-I Elisabetta Adami has been invited to hold a work-in-progress seminar at University College London. Drawing on her multimodal analysis in Leeds Kirkgate...

Superdiversity and trans-ethnography

Visiting Scholar Dr Suzanne Hall (LSE) February 4th, 2016, 14:00 — 15:30 Seminar Room 1, Leeds Humanities Research Institute. As part of its Sadler Seminar...

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