Special issue that highlights social, economic and cultural exclusions. As seen in the papers presented in this volume most forms of exclusion are gendered. The major contribution of this volume's focus is on gendered exclusion in global cities and examines the intersections between culture, gender and identity and analyzes how power relations and gendered subordination are still actually dominant factors in shaping and re-shaping the lives of women as well as men. The special is divided into: 1. 'Tolerance and beyond as expressed in different perspectives of everyday life' and 2. 'Tolerance towards people of diversity and beyond?'.