Resistance and the City

Challenging Urban Space
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-36918-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 27, 238 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 739 g

Reihe: Spatial Practices

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Ehland, Christoph

Fischer, Pascal

Fachgebiete

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

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

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.