Resistance and the City
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-36918-4 (ISBN)
The essays collected in this volume unfold a panorama of urban phenomena of resistance that reach from the seventeenth to the twenty-first centuries, thus revealing the essential vulnerability of urban space to all forms of subversion. Taking their readers to diverse places and moments in history, the contributions remind us of the struggles over the concrete as well as the imaginary space we call the city.
The collection maps the various challenges experienced by urban communities, ranging from the unmistakably hegemonic claim of civic festivities in early modern London to the perceived threat posed by newly created parks in the Restoration period and from the dangers of criminality and riots in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to the transformation of the Berlin Wall into souvenirs scattered around the globe.
Contributors: Ingo Berensmeyer, Christoph Ehland, Pascal Fischer, Blake Fitzpatrick, Kerstin Frank, Jens Martin Gurr, Bernd Hirsch, Marie Hologa, Mihaela Irimia, Stephan Kohl, Norbert Lennartz, Catharina Löffler, Margaret Olin, István Rácz, Gerd Stratmann.
Christoph Ehland is Professor of English Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Paderborn in Germany. In his writing he focuses on Scottish Literature, the early modern period, and literary commemorative culture. Pascal Fischer is Professor of English and American Cultural Studies at the University of Bamberg in Germany. He has published on Jewish-American literature and culture, the Romantic period, and contemporary culture.
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
General Introduction
Christoph Ehland and Pascal Fischer
Introduction: Challenging Urban Space
Christoph Ehland and Pascal Fischer
Part 1: Contested Civic Spaces in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
1 Civic Subversion in London’s Public Rituals in the Seventeenth Century
Christoph Ehland
2 The Earl of Rochester: Sexual Politics, Riots and the Chaos of the Carnivalesque
Norbert Lennartz
3 Rus in Urbe: Parks in Eighteenth-Century Cities
Mihaela Irimia
4 The Slippery Slope to the Gallows: Crime and Punishment in Early Eighteenth-Century London
Kerstin Frank
Part 2: Urban Rioting in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
5 Giving Meaning to Anarchy: Contemporary Interpretations of Rioting in 18th-Century Britain
Gerd Stratmann
6 Blending Spaces: The Gordon Riots in Literature
Pascal Fischer
7 The “Capital of Discontent”: Urban Resistance in Manchester
Bernd Hirsch
Part 3: Reimagining Urban Space
8 Creating Situationist Ambiences: Peter Ackroyd’s London: The Biography
Stephan Kohl
9 Reshaping the City: The Eruv as Stealth Architecture
Margaret Olin
10 Challenging Urban Realities in Recent London Writing: Iain Sinclair’s Ghost Milk and John Lanchester’s Capital
Ingo Berensmeyer and Catharina Löffler
Part 4: Creative Transformations of the City
11 Critical Urban Studies and/in “Right to the City” Movements: The Politics of Form in Activist Cultural Production
Jens Martin Gurr
12 Street Art as Reclaiming the Streets
Marie Hologa
13 Graffiti as a Place of Resistance in British Poetry
István D. Rácz
14 The Berlin Wall as Mobile Ruin
Blake Fitzpatrick
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 23.09.2018 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Spatial Practices ; 27 |
| Verlagsort | Leiden |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 531 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| Technik ► Architektur | |
| ISBN-10 | 90-04-36918-X / 900436918X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-90-04-36918-4 / 9789004369184 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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