Research within literatures on multiculturalism and cosmopolitanism has moved beyond studying the institutional basis and discursive negotiations of differences towards an understanding of the embodied and practical dimensions of everyday social interactions. An emergent literature has also started to consider the role of vibrant material agents, atmosphere, and their environmental contexts in understanding diversity spaces. We wish to contribute to this literature through a visual and material ethnographic approach, taking two cafes in Copenhagen, Denmark as emblematic cases. We locate these sites in the particular socio-cultural space of Nørrebro – a neighbourhood characterised by the ethnic diversity of its inhabitants, but also by political tensions, government-supported gentrification, and community-driven restructuring and rebuilding. Taking an ecological approach to these spaces, we argue that socio-material arrangements may serve to solve or express diversity through the aesthetic organisation of human and non-human actors. We interpret such material forms as co-constitutive agents of diversity politics.

文献中关于多元文化主义和世界主义的研究已经从研究制度基础和差异的辩论式讨论转向了对日常社会互动的具体和实际方面的理解。新兴的文献也开始考虑充满活力的物质媒介，大气及其环境背景在理解多样性空间中的作用。我们希望通过视觉和物质民族志方法为这部文学做出贡献，以丹麦哥本哈根的两家咖啡馆为代表。我们将这些地点定位在Nørrebro特定的社会文化空间中-该社区以其居民的种族多样性为特征，但也因政治紧张局势，政府支持的中产阶级化以及社区驱动的结构调整和重建而具有特色。我们以生态学的方式来研究这些空间，我们认为社会物质的安排可能通过人类和非人类参与者的审美组织来解决或表达多样性。我们将这种物质形式解释为多元化政治的共同构成主体。