‘Throwntogetherness’ in hostile environments

In this paper, we set a framework for the Special Feature on urban living together by highlighting main forces which, contend, have significantly reshaped citizenship in recent times. Nearly two decades after formulation of Doreen Massey’s influential concept ‘throwntogetherness’, engage it conversation with differing, often contrasting, realities. Throwntogetherness highlights making space through fluidity, openness and diversity within ‘power geometry’ global neoliberalism. We analyse concept’s engagement countervailing forces, particular neo-nationalism digitisation city. These mobilised range ‘hostile environment’ policies towards migrant, indigenous marginalized communities, propelling practices bordering, denial rights, housing displacement exclusion. The new assemblage further argue, intensify dialectic tension between throwntogetherness ‘thrownapartness’ increasingly lead to ‘urban apartheid’ cities across globe. draw contributions which these tensions Bologna, Rome, Singapore, Glasgow, Budapest, Jerusalem/Al-Quds Dhaka. case studies illustrate re-making citizens throwntogether thrownapart contemporary hostile environments.