Inner city : an emotional history of racialized urban England, 1968-2017 / Michael Romyn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Romyn, Michael, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociology, Urban--England--History--20th century.

Sociology, Urban.

Sociology, Urban--England--History--21st century.

England--Race relations--History--20th century.

England.

England--Race relations--History--21st century.

Sociology, Urban--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations

illustration

Other Title:

Emotional history of racialized urban England, 1968-2017

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2026]

Summary:

'Inner City' presents a new way of approaching the social history of contemporary urban England. By examining the emotional experience of England's heavily politicised and racialised inner cities, it shows how feelings and other affective states underpinned everyday lives during a period marked by repressive policing, racialised exclusions, disproportionate psychiatric detention, welfare state retrenchment, and urban 'regeneration.' It also reveals the centrality of emotion to moments of large-scale urban rupture, including the New Cross Massacre in 1981, the uprisings of the 1980s, and the fire at Grenfell Tower in 2017. Drawing on oral testimonies and a range of archives, the book asks how this affective terrain honed modes of endurance, survival, and resistance in impoverished city space.

Contents:

Feeling Babylon: growing up Black in a time of ‘crisis’

Willing hands: rebuilding in New Cross

‘Big, Black and dangerous’: The pathologisation of dissent

Women’s space and internal(ised) borders

L8 under siege

Epilogue: shadows of 2011.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Oxford Academic, viewed September 1, 2026).

Other Format:

Print version : Romyn, Michael. Inner city.

ISBN:

9780197910870

0197910874

OCLC:

1599106850

Publisher Number:

CIPO000408937