European cities: Modernity, race and colonialism is a multidisciplinary collection of scholarly studies which rethink European urban modernity from a race-conscious perspective, being aware of (post-)colonial entanglements. The twelve original contributions empirically focus on such various cities as Barcelona, Buenos Aires, Cottbus, Genoa, Hamburg, Madrid, Mitrovica, Naples, Paris, Sheffield, and Thessaloniki, engaging multiple combinations of global urban studies, from various historical perspectives, with postcolonial, decolonial and critical race studies. Primarily inspired by the notion of Provincializing Europe (Dipesh Chakrabarty) the collection interrogates dominant, Eurocentric theories, representations and models of European cities across the East-West divide, offering the reader alternative perspectives to understand and imagine urban life and politics. With its focus on Europe, this book ultimately contributes to decades of rigorous critical race scholarship on varied global urban regions.
European cities is a vital reading for anyone interested in the complex interactions between colonial legacies and constructions of ‘modernity’, in view of catering to social change and urban justice.
Table of Content
Introduction: rethinking the European urban – Noa K. Ha and Giovanni Picker
Part I: Provincialising historicism
1 Parochial imaginations: the ‘European city’ as a territorialised entity – Anke Schwarz
2 Countermapping colonial amnesia in Parisian landscapes – Tania Mancheno
3 Provincialising industry: hyperreal urban modernity in nineteenth-century Buenos Aires – Antonio Carbone
Part II: Provincialising (urban) geography
4 Provincialising conviviality: convivial boundary-making in post-Ottoman, socialist and divided Mitrovica – Pieter Troch
5 Urban infrastructures, migration and the reproduction of colonial forms of difference – Aidan Mosselson
6 Decolonising Cottbus: unmasking coloniality/modernity and ‘imperial difference’ in urban sites of remembrance – Miriam Friz Trzeciak and Manuel Peters
Part III: Provincialising the (urban) political
7 Decolonial migrant claims to the metropole: views from two Mediterranean cities – Mahdis Azarmandi and Piro Rexhepi
8 Portuguese Urban Studies: between race and the absence of racism – Ana Rita Alves
9 Between hope and despair: how racism and anti-racism produce Madrid – Stoyanka Eneva
10 Theorising Hamburg from the South: racialisation and the development of Wilhelmsburg – Julie Chamberlain
Coda: toward urban provisioning – Abdou Maliq Simone
About the author
Noa K. Ha is a Lecturer in Spatial Strategies at the weissensee academy of art and design berlin Giovanni Picker is a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Glasgow
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