{"product_id":"resistance-and-the-city-challenging-urban-space-9789004369184","title":"Resistance and the City: Challenging Urban Space","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements   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","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210752713047,"sku":"9789004369184","price":115.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/resistance-and-the-city-challenging-urban-space-9789004369184","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}