ABSTRACT
Living the Global City (1997) is renowned for what it tells us about the nature of community and belonging in the ‘global age’. It also contains the outline of a sophisticated account of the stranger under conditions of globalization, or the ‘globalization of strangeness’ (see Rumford 2013). This chapter will critically evaluate Living the Global City as a resource for constructing a new theory of the stranger. It will explore the idea that the real stranger is one who is indifferent to the maintenance of ‘milieu’ and/or the borders separating milieux. In such a situation the conventional stranger – the outsider or the one marked off by cultural difference – might, in fact, prove to be more neighbourly.
