Resistance and the city : negotiating urban identities: race, class, and gender /

Resistance and the city : negotiating urban identities: race, class, and gender / / edited by Christoph Ehland, Pascal Fischer.

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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, t...

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TeilnehmendeR:
Ehland, Christoph.
Fischer, Pascal.
Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill / Rodopi,, 2018.
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Spatial Practices 28.
Physical Description:1 online resource (229 pages).
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes on Contributors
  • General Introduction / Christoph Ehland and Pascal Fischer
  • Introduction: Negotiating Urban Space / Christoph Ehland and Pascal Fischer
  • Race and Ethnicity
  • Black Citizens – British Spaces: Struggles in the 1970s and 1980s and Cinematic Representations / Ingrid von Rosenberg
  • Resisting Topographies: Immigration, Space and the City in Contemporary British Film / Ralf Schneider
  • Heterotopias as Spaces of Resistance in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children (1981) / Katrin Röder
  • Changing Uses of the City in Contemporary Black British Novels / Merle Tönnies and Anna Lienen
  • Social Class
  • “Poor is Cool”: The Working-Classes as Myth in Pulp’s “Common People” / Christoph Singer
  • Chavs: The Clash of Social Classes in Urban Britain / Frank Erik Pointner
  • The Other Dublin: Homelessness, Abject Comedy and Challenges to the Urban Order in Lenny Abrahamson’s Adam and Paul (2004) / Mark Schmitt
  • In the Ghetto: Inequality, Riots and Resistance in London-Based Science Fiction of the Twenty-First Century / Barbara Korte
  • Gender and Sexuality
  • ‘Lost to the Streets’: Violence, Space and Gender in Urban Crime Fiction / Gill Plain
  • The Urban Residential Balcony as Interstitial Site / Sabine H. Smith
  • Muslims against Gays? Faith, Sexuality, Resistance and London’s East End / Oliver von Knebel Doeberitz
  • Scenic Subversions: On Bruce LaBruce’s Re-queering of That Cold Day in the Park / Ger Zielinski.

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