1 Author: Dr. Nuno Oliveira Affiliation: CIES-ISCTE/IUL, Lisbon University, Portugal Email: filicastrol@gmail.com, nuno.filipe.oliveira@iscte.pt Title: The production of interculturality in two urban spaces: Lisbon and Granada compared. (draft paper) 1 In this paper I suggest three analytical strands to assess the governance of cultural diversity in contemporary cities, which can even be used as comparative categories, in particular on aspects of their inscription in the public space and the logic of their social organization, what we will call the production of interculturality. This term calls directly to Foucault's idea of producing social realities, practices and forms of subjectivity through the distribution of power in social relations (Foucault 1975, 1979). Of these modalities, I will highlight an economic aspect, another political and other symbolic that structure peoples repertoires and have direct impact on the way cultural diversity is represented, talked about and strategically displayed in the public space. I will start by offering a quick overview on new perspectives and understandings of cultural diversity accommodation in the urban space. Terms such as transnationalism from below, differentiation of difference, conviviality and super-diversity (Smith and Guarnizo, 1998; Bennett, 2001; Gilroy, 2005; Vertovec, 1997) have garnered the favor of the analysis of cultural intersections in spaces where cultural diversity puts in contact cultural affiliations and distinct identifications. But other perspectives, going in the same direction, can be adduced. For example, Wise (2007) recently proposed the term "quotidian transversality", which relates to expressions such as multiculturalism from below or transversality in the philosophical sense of the term 2 . 1 Presented at the Conference Interculturality, Meaning and Identity, Prague 15-17 March, 2014.