The logics that develops in underclass neighbourhoods is likely to be of a different nature from those that develop among the highly educated world travellers of the culture industries. The urban poor, ethnically mixed ghetto is an arena that does not immediately cater to the construction of explicitly new hybrid identities. In periods of global stability and/or expansion, the problems of survival are more closely related to territory and to creating secure life spaces. Class identity, local ghetto identity, tend to prevail...