Resistance and the City

Negotiating Urban Identities: Race, Class, and Gender
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-36929-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 28, 220 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 717 g

Reihe: Spatial Practices

The contributions collected in the second volume of Resistance and the City are devoted to the three markers of identity that cultural studies has recognised as paramount for our understanding of difference, inequality, and solidarity in modern societies: race, class, and gender.
These categories, tightly linked to the mechanics of power, domination and subordination, have often played an eminent role in contemporary struggles and clashes in urban space. The confluence of people from diverse ethnic, social, and sexual backgrounds in the city has not only raised their awareness of a variety of life concepts and motivated them to negotiate their own positions, but has also encouraged them to develop strategies of resistance against patterns of social and spatial exclusion.

Contributors: Oliver von Knebel Doeberitz, Barbara Korte, Anna Lienen, Gill Plain, Frank Erik Pointner, Katrin Röder, Ingrid von Rosenberg, Mark Schmitt, Ralf Schneider, Christoph Singer, Sabine Smith, Merle Tönnies, Ger Zielinski

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Ehland, Christoph

Fischer, Pascal

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Architektur: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors

General Introduction

Christoph Ehland and Pascal Fischer

Introduction: Negotiating Urban Space

Christoph Ehland and Pascal Fischer

Part 1: Race and Ethnicity

1 Black Citizens – British Spaces: Struggles in the 1970s and 1980s and Cinematic Representations

Ingrid von Rosenberg

2 Resisting Topographies: Immigration, Space and the City in Contemporary British Film

Ralf Schneider

3 Heterotopias as Spaces of Resistance in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children (1981)

Katrin Röder

4 Changing Uses of the City in Contemporary Black British Novels

Merle Tönnies and Anna Lienen

Part 2: Social Class

5 “Poor is Cool”: The Working-Classes as Myth in Pulp’s “Common People”

Christoph Singer

6 Chavs: The Clash of Social Classes in Urban Britain

Frank Erik Pointner

7 The Other Dublin: Homelessness, Abject Comedy and Challenges to the Urban Order in Lenny Abrahamson’s Adam & Paul (2004)

Mark Schmitt

8 In the Ghetto: Inequality, Riots and Resistance in London-Based Science Fiction of the Twenty-First Century

Barbara Korte

Part 3: Gender and Sexuality

9 ‘Lost to the Streets’: Violence, Space and Gender in Urban Crime Fiction

Gill Plain

10 The Urban Residential Balcony as Interstitial Site

Sabine H. Smith

11 Muslims against Gays? Faith, Sexuality, Resistance and London’s East End

Oliver von Knebel Doeberitz

12 Scenic Subversions: On Bruce LaBruce’s Re-queering of That Cold Day in the Park

Ger Zielinski

Index

Über Autor(innen)

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.