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)

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...

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.