Intersectionality and the City

Exploring Violence and Inequality in Urban Space
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-65899-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Reihe: The Refiguration of Space

This book combines intersectional perspectives and urban research to demonstrate the importance of intersectionality as a concept that can complement ‘refigurational’ understandings of social change as the outcome of spatial conflicts. Showing how intersectionality enables us to grasp the intersecting categories of inequality in these spatial tensions, it remains attentive to the role of social difference and power in these processes, as well as to modes of normativity and resistance. With case studies gathered from a range of national contexts, it provides rich empirical insights into the relationship between urban spatialities, power dynamics and embodied social inequalities, addressing the manner in which different conflicts are made manifest intersectionally in and through situated urban spaces. The chapters consider issues such as the gendering and racialization of urban spaces; urban marginality and environmental pressures; intersectional power dynamics in research; heteronormative and cisgender-centric structures in the city; ageing in the city; young people, control and insecurity; police violence; migrant emplacement and activism; racialized gentrification and commoning, and pandemic safety and protest, to explore the uneven outcomes of spatial planning and urban development. As such, it draws attention to the interplay of various forces in the production of exclusion and injustice and will therefore appeal to scholars of sociology, geography and urban studies with interests in inequality, social change and resistance to exclusion.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Miro Born, Anthony

Bernroider, Lucie

Kulz, Christy

Gang, Sung Un

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Exploring urban violence and inequality from intersectional perspectives

Part 1: Conceptual terrains

2. Intersectionality: Gendering and racializing urban spaces

3. Arriving/being stopped: Six fatal shots and the sociology of place

4. Only a researcher’s struggle? Reconceiving the ethnographic field as a relational space

5. Exploring urban spaces of socio-environmental entanglement in Lagos: A collaboration between a researcher and a visual artist

6. Urban violence, the state, and intersectionality: A conversation with Javier Auyero

Part 2: The social life of urban violence

7. “Half bread is better than none”: Surviving in the Accra airport city

8. Negotiating everyday symbolic violence: Young Londoners imagining their futures from a deprived area

9. Escaping territories of terror: Protective strategies against intersectional violence at checkpoints

10. Young, female, disadvantaged: How parental guidance and societal gender stereotypes shape girls’ and young women’s spatial knowledge

11. Aging and intersectionality in the city: A critique of spaces of thrownapartness in Berlin (Germany)

12. Affective violence of the gaze in gender-segregated restrooms: An intersectional analysis

13. Kreuzberg is a construction site: A grounded theory in pictures

Part 3: Challenging urban violence

14. Intersectional geographies in the urban grid: (B)ordering technologies and migrant agency and resistance

15. The making of Keung To Bay: Fandom, urban space and affective alliance in Hong Kong

16. Risky migrants and citizens in need of protection: The transformation of safety on the conjuncture of pandemic and protest

17. Struggles in search of a ground: Protests after lockdown

Über Autor(innen)

Lucie Bernroider, Dr., is an anthropologist at the Collaborative Research Center “Re-Figuration of Spaces” at Technische Universität Berlin. Her research interests include space, gender and class, neoliberal urban development, and the anthropology of violence, with a regional focus on South Asia. She holds a doctorate from the University of Heidelberg and has been a visiting scholar at the Delhi School of Planning and Architecture.

Anthony Miro Born, PhD, is a sociologist and geographer with a particular interest in social inequality. Born’s research focuses on the intersections of urban inequality and social class from multiple perspectives. He is currently an ESRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Christy Kulz, PhD, is a guest professor of sociology at Technische Universität Berlin. Her research interests focus on cultural sociology, with a particular attention to how intersectional inequalities are made through everyday practices in urban space. Her publications include the research monograph Factories for Learning (2017) and the edited collection Inside the English Education Lab (2022).

Sung Un Gang, Dr., is a scholar of media and cultural studies at the Institute of Architecture, Technische Universität Berlin. As a research associate at the Collaborative Research Center “Re-Figuration of Spaces”, he investigates the everyday spaces and digital communication practices of queer inhabitants in Seoul, South Korea. His main research areas include queer and intersectional feminism, urban culture and space, and postcolonial historiography.