Interethnic Alliances and Transdiasporic Appropriations: the New Sounds of the Metropolis

The dramatic event that shook London in July 2005 has stirred up a debate that, for decades, has been rehearsing concepts like hybridity, multiethnic scenarios and images of multicultural worlds. While the academic-driven, media-fed focus on such issues has always been high and profitable, the local contexts characterised by such phenomena have been worryingly neglected, together with their political and ideological implications.