Resistance and the city : : challenging urban space / / edited by Christoph Ehland, Pascal Fischer.

• Superior document: Spatial practices ; 27
• TeilnehmendeR: Ehland, Christoph.; Fischer, Pascal.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill / Rodopi,, 2018.
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Spatial Practices 27.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (248 pages)
• Other title: Front Matter --; Copyright Page --; Contents --; Acknowledgements --; Notes on Contributors --; General Introduction /; Introduction: Challenging Urban Space /; Contested Civic Spaces in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries --; Civic Subversion in London’s Public Rituals in the Seventeenth Century /; The Earl of Rochester: Sexual Politics, Riots and the Chaos of the Carnivalesque /; Rus in Urbe: Parks in Eighteenth-Century Cities /; The Slippery Slope to the Gallows: Crime and Punishment in Early Eighteenth-Century London /; Urban Rioting in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries --; Giving Meaning to Anarchy: Contemporary Interpretations of Rioting in 18th-Century Britain /; Blending Spaces: The Gordon Riots in Literature /; The “Capital of Discontent”? Urban Resistance in Manchester /; Reimagining Urban Space --; Creating Situationist Ambiences: Peter Ackroyd’s London: The Biography /; Reshaping the City: The Eruv as Stealth Architecture /; Challenging Urban Realities in Recent London Writing: Iain Sinclair’s Ghost Milk and John Lanchester’s Capital /; Creative Transformations of the City --; Critical Urban Studies and/in ‘Right to the City’ Movements: The Politics of Form in Activist Cultural Production /; Street Art as Reclaiming the Streets /; Graffiti as a Place of Resistance in British Poetry /; The Berlin Wall as Mobile Ruin /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004369201
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Christoph Ehland, Pascal Fischer.

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.