The challenges of intercultural relations in an increasingly globalised world, and the consequences this has for local relations of living together, are discussed in this collection. It considers the critical but productive possibilities of the 'convivial turn'. It was first published as a special issue of the Journal of Intercultural Studies.

Introduction: Convivialities: An Orientation 1. Unpacking Intercultural Conviviality in Multiethnic Commercial Streets 2. Settling in a Super-Diverse Context: Recent Migrants' Experiences of Conviviality 3. Extended Encounters in Primary School Worlds: Shared Social Resource, Connective Spaces and Sustained Conviviality in Socially and Ethnically Complex Urban Geographies 4. Convivial Labour and the 'Joking Relationship': Humour and Everyday Multiculturalism at Work 5. Rethinking Youth Conviviality: The Possibilities of Intercultural Friendship Beyond Contact and Encounter 6. Multicultural Conviviality in the Midst of Racism's Ruins

Amanda Wise is Associate Professor of Sociology at Macquarie University, Australia. Her research interests focus on everyday multiculturalism, urban diversity, race and ethnic relations, migration and transnational migrant labour.

Greg Noble is Professor at the Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University, Australia. His research interests focus on the intersection of youth, ethnicity and gender; migration and everyday multiculturalism; Bourdieusian theory; and multicultural education.