European cities : modernity, race and colonialism / edited by Noa K. Ha and Giovanni Picker.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ha, Noa, editor.

Picker, Giovanni, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cities and towns--Europe.

Cities and towns.

Sociology, Urban--Europe.

Sociology, Urban.

Minorities--Europe--Social conditions.

Minorities.

Cultural pluralism--Europe.

Cultural pluralism.

Postcolonialism--Europe.

Postcolonialism.

Europe--Race relations.

Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 269 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2022.

Summary:

European cities: modernity, race and colonialism is a multidisciplinary collection of scholarly studies that sets out to rethink urban Europe from a race-conscious perspective, reflexively and critically aware of colonial entanglements and what came to be known as ''modernity''. The twelve original contributions engage various combinations of urban studies, postcolonial, decolonial and race critical theories. The results are empirical and theoretical analyses critically centring on the multiple ways in which race partakes in the production of urban space in the twenty-first-century former metropole. European cities across the East-West divide get in this way decentred and detached from dominant Eurocentric analyses and (self-)representations; viewed from global and historical perspectives, their aura of alleged ''modernity'' leaves the proscenium to offer the reader an opportunity to start imagining and understanding urban living and politics otherwise. After decades of rigorous critical race scholarship on various global urban regions, European cities is a comprehensive attempt to squarely centre race in analyses of urban Europe. The book may appeal to all students and learners both within and outside academia; scholars; activists; journalists; and policy makers interested in urban life, governance, planning, racism, Europe and colonialism.

Contents:

Introduction: rethinking the European urban / Noa K. Ha and Giovanni Picker

Part I: Provincialising historicism. Parochial imaginations: the 'European city' as a territorialised entity / Anke Schwarz

Countermapping colonial amnesia in Parisian landscapes / Tania Mancheno

Provincialising industry: hyperreal urban modernity in nineteenth-century Buenos Aires / Antonio Carbone

Part II: Provincialising (urban) geography. Provincialising convivality: convivial boundary-making in post-Ottoman, socialist and divided Mitrovica / Pieter Troch

Urban infrastructures, migration and the reproduction of colonial forms of difference / Aidan Mosselson

Decolonising Cottbus: unmasking coloniality/modernity and 'imperial difference' in post (real)socialist urban sites of remembrance / Miriam Friz Trzeciak and Manuel Peter

Part III: Provincialising the (urban) political. Decolonial migrant claims to the metropole: views from two Mediterranean cities / Mahdis Azarmandi and Piro Rexhepi

Portuguese urban studies: between race and the absence of racism / Ana Rita Alves

Between hope and despair: how racism and anti-racism produce Madrid / Stoyanka Eneva

Theorising Hamburg from the south: racialisation and the development of Wilhelmsburg / Julie Chamberlain

Coda: toward urban provisioning / AbdouMaliq Simone.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 23 Feb 2026).

Other Format:

Print version: Ha, Noa K. European Cities

ISBN:

9781526169952

1526169959

9781526158420

1526158426

9781526158444

1526158442

OCLC:

1330894099