This timely and interdisciplinary book deals with urban marginality as a multi-faceted process of urban transformation that engenders a wide range of experiences world-wide.
This timely and interdisciplinary book deals with urban marginality as a multi-faceted process of urban transformation that engenders a wide range of experiences world-wide.
Through the application of new empirical material and novel theoretical syntheses that exceed conceptual binaries (East-West, North-South), the authors explore shifting contemporary experiences of marginality in various urban contexts in Eastern Europe (EE). The unique articulation between global processes – such as gentrification, financialization, racialization and spatialization – and the distinctive histories, contestations and dislocations that characterize EE cities calls for increasing scholarly attention. The volume explores new patterns and drivers of urban marginality and racialization, and at the same time connects these to wider problematics of “advanced capitalist” cities as well as to post-socialist and anti-colonial urbanisms. The fourteen chapters contribute to a more nuanced understanding of global urbanism that decentres dominant Anglophone conceptualisations. Contributions focus empirically and theoretically on Czechia, Estonia, Hungary, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Serbia and Ukraine.
The volume is recommended for students and urban scholars in EE and beyond, but will also be of interest to activists involved in housing and urban justice as well as in broader struggles towards the anti-racist city.
'1. Thinking from the East: Urban marginality, racialisation and
interdependence in Eastern Europe. Part
1. Racialisation and the production
of the urban margins.
2. Dispossessed, segregated, exploited: On racialised
residential capitalism in postsocialist Czechia.
3. Urbanization of racial
capitalism in Serbia: Transition, racialisation, evictions.
4. From social
housing to evictions: State-led displacement and the urban poor in Bucharest.
5. Maintaining marginality: A genealogy of security mechanisms against Roma
in Baia Mare. Part
2. Mobilities and the shifting urban margins.
6. Human
capital and digital citizenship: Postsocialisms urban dispossessions.
7.
Locked in permanent temporariness: Internally displaced persons in Serbia.
8.
The Russian minority in the Baltic capitals: Examining marginalisation in the
context of urban dynamics. Part
3. Enduring and countering urban marginality.
9. Depoliticised urban commons: Romanias perpetuating slum formations,
deepening housing struggles, and political disinterest.
10. Doing and undoing
communities: Opposing municipal narratives and spatial politics in a diverse
neighbourhood of Budapest.
11. Between transformation and marginality: Urban
life and socially engaged art at the fringe of Prishtina.
12. Infrastructures
of marginality in a city with war on the horizon: Insights from Lyman,
Ukraine. Part
4. Race, post-socialism and the city: Reflections and new
horizons.
13. Roma ghettos within the abyss of European modernity:
Technologies of control and emancipatory horizons.
15. Post-socialist racial
geographies studies.
Filip Alexandrescu is a Senior Researcher (2nd degree) at the Research Institute for Quality of Life in Bucharest, Romania.
Ryan Powell is Professor of Urban Studies in the School of Geography and Planning at the University of Sheffield, UK.
Ana Vilenica is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow for the ERC project Inhabiting Radical Housing at the Polytechnic and University of Turins Inter-university Department of Regional & Urban Studies and Planning (DIST) and a core member of the Beyond Inhabitation Lab.
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