Resistance and the city : : challenging urban space / / 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, t...
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Superior document: | Spatial practices ; 27 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill / Rodopi,, 2018. |
Year of Publication: | 2018 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Spatial Practices
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (248 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: Challenging Urban Space / Christoph Ehland and Pascal Fischer
- Contested Civic Spaces in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
- Civic Subversion in London’s Public Rituals in the Seventeenth Century / Christoph Ehland
- The Earl of Rochester: Sexual Politics, Riots and the Chaos of the Carnivalesque / Norbert Lennartz
- Rus in Urbe: Parks in Eighteenth-Century Cities / Mihaela Irimia
- The Slippery Slope to the Gallows: Crime and Punishment in Early Eighteenth-Century London / Kerstin Frank
- Urban Rioting in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
- Giving Meaning to Anarchy: Contemporary Interpretations of Rioting in 18th-Century Britain / Gerd Stratmann
- Blending Spaces: The Gordon Riots in Literature / Pascal Fischer
- The “Capital of Discontent”? Urban Resistance in Manchester / Bernd Hirsch
- Reimagining Urban Space
- Creating Situationist Ambiences: Peter Ackroyd’s London: The Biography / Stephan Kohl
- Reshaping the City: The Eruv as Stealth Architecture / Margaret Olin
- Challenging Urban Realities in Recent London Writing: Iain Sinclair’s Ghost Milk and John Lanchester’s Capital / Ingo Berensmeyer and Catharina Löffler
- Creative Transformations of the City
- Critical Urban Studies and/in ‘Right to the City’ Movements: The Politics of Form in Activist Cultural Production / Jens Martin Gurr
- Street Art as Reclaiming the Streets / Marie Hologa
- Graffiti as a Place of Resistance in British Poetry / István D. Rácz
- The Berlin Wall as Mobile Ruin / Blake Fitzpatrick.