Introduction
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Noa K. Ha
Abstract
This introduction sets out to explain the rationale of our edited volume and to introduce the eleven contributions included in the volume. In the first part, we lay out what seem to us as the two main limitations of Social Sciences scholarship on ‘The European City’, namely the silence on colonialism and the history of race, and the relegation of Eastern European urbanism to area studies. After discussing at length these two limitations, we underline the overall contribution of our book that we identify in establishing three thus-far missing connections. The first missing connection is between historical studies of colonialism and the twenty-first-century Sociology of urban Europe; the second connection is between contemporary studies of the relevance of race in urban Europe, and a lack of attention on race in theories of European urbanism. The third missing connection is between established theories of Eastern European cities and the scholarship on ‘Balkanism’ and the ‘East–West slope’. We then explain how the edited volume contributes to establish these three connections before presenting a summary of each chapter.
Abstract
This introduction sets out to explain the rationale of our edited volume and to introduce the eleven contributions included in the volume. In the first part, we lay out what seem to us as the two main limitations of Social Sciences scholarship on ‘The European City’, namely the silence on colonialism and the history of race, and the relegation of Eastern European urbanism to area studies. After discussing at length these two limitations, we underline the overall contribution of our book that we identify in establishing three thus-far missing connections. The first missing connection is between historical studies of colonialism and the twenty-first-century Sociology of urban Europe; the second connection is between contemporary studies of the relevance of race in urban Europe, and a lack of attention on race in theories of European urbanism. The third missing connection is between established theories of Eastern European cities and the scholarship on ‘Balkanism’ and the ‘East–West slope’. We then explain how the edited volume contributes to establish these three connections before presenting a summary of each chapter.
Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Dedication v
- Contents vii
- Figures ix
- Contributors x
- Acknowledgements xiv
- Introduction 1
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Part I: Provincialising historicism
- 1 Parochial imaginations 37
- 2 Countermapping colonial amnesia in Parisian landscapes 56
- 3 Provincialising industry 77
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Part II: Provincialising (urban) geography
- 4 Provincialising conviviality 99
- 5 Urban infrastructures, migration and the reproduction of colonial forms of difference 120
- 6 Decolonising Cottbus 143
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Part III: Provincialising the (urban) political
- 7 Decolonial migrant claims to the metropole 171
- 8 Portuguese Urban Studies 192
- 9 Between hope and despair 213
- 10 Theorising Hamburg from the South 235
- Coda 257
- Index 263
Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Dedication v
- Contents vii
- Figures ix
- Contributors x
- Acknowledgements xiv
- Introduction 1
-
Part I: Provincialising historicism
- 1 Parochial imaginations 37
- 2 Countermapping colonial amnesia in Parisian landscapes 56
- 3 Provincialising industry 77
-
Part II: Provincialising (urban) geography
- 4 Provincialising conviviality 99
- 5 Urban infrastructures, migration and the reproduction of colonial forms of difference 120
- 6 Decolonising Cottbus 143
-
Part III: Provincialising the (urban) political
- 7 Decolonial migrant claims to the metropole 171
- 8 Portuguese Urban Studies 192
- 9 Between hope and despair 213
- 10 Theorising Hamburg from the South 235
- Coda 257
- Index 263
