Buch, Englisch, 340 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 233 mm, Gewicht: 530 g
Perspectives on Community-Building, Identity and Belonging
Buch, Englisch, 340 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 233 mm, Gewicht: 530 g
ISBN: 978-94-6270-348-3
Verlag: Leuven University Press
Urban neighbourhoods have come to occupy the public imagination as a
litmus test of migration, with some areas hailed as multicultural success
stories while others are framed as ghettos. In an attempt to break down this
dichotomy, Exploring the Transnational Neighbourhood filters these
debates through the lenses of geography, anthropology, and literary and
cultural studies. By
establishing the interdisciplinary concept of the 'transnational
neighbourhood', it presents these localities
– whether Clichy-sous-Bois, Belfast, El Segundo Barrio or Williamsburg – as
densely packed contact zones where disparate cultures meet in often highly
asymmetrical relations, producing a constantly shifting local and cultural
knowledge about identity, belonging, and familiarity.
Exploring the Transnational Neighbourhood
offers a pivotal response to one of the key questions of our time: How do
people create a sense of community within an exceedingly globalised context? By
focusing on the neighbourhood as a central space of transcultural everyday
experience within three different levels of discourse (i.e., the virtual, the
physical local, and the transnational-global), the multidisciplinary
contributions explore bottom-up practices of community-building alongside
cultural, social, economic, and historical barriers.
Contributors: Christina Horvath (University of Bath), Maria Roca
Lizarazu (NUI Galway), Emilio Maceda Rodriguez (Universidad Autónoma de
Tlaxcala), Naomi Wells (IMLR, University of London), Anne Fuchs (University
College Dublin), Gad Schaffer (Tel-Hai Academic College), Daniela Bohórquez
Sheinin (University of Michigan), Anna Marta Marini (Universidad de Alcalá), Godela
Weiss-Sussex (IMLR, University of London), Britta C. Jung (Maynooth
University), Emma Crowley (University of Bristol), Mary Mazzilli (University of
Essex)
Ebook available in Open Access.
This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).
Blog post ‘Exploring
the Transnational Neighbourhood’, by Britta C. Jung, Gad Schaffer, Stephan
Ehrig, 3 Feb 2023
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
- Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Mehrsprachigkeit
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
- Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
- Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften
- Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein
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Acknowledgements
Exploring the Transnational Neighbourhood: An Introduction Stephan Ehrig, Britta C. Jung and Gad Schaffer
Challenging Accusations of Separatism: Transnational Neighbourhood and Vernacular Cosmopolitanism in Insa Sané’s Comédie urbaine (2006–2017) Christina Horvath
SECTION I VIRTUAL NEIGHBOURHOODS
“We will be ephemeral”: Encounter, Community and Unsettled Cosmopolitanism in Senthuran Varatharajah’s Vor der Zunahme der Zeichen (2016) Maria Roca Lizarazu
All Saints Catholic Church in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NYC: From Religious Space to Transnational Territory of Multiterritorial Mexican Immigrants Emilio Maceda Rodríguez
Networking and Representing the Transnational Neighbourhood Online: The Linguistic Landscapes of Latin Americans in London’s Seven Sisters Naomi Wells
SECTION II OVERLAPPING NEIGHBOURHOODS
The Translocalisation of Place: Sectarian Neighbourhoods, Boundaries and Transgressive Practices in Anna Burns’ Belfast Anne Fuchs
The Quiet Unification of a Divided City: Jerusalem’s Train-Track Park Gad Schaffer
Ruins and Representation: Remembering Flushing Meadows–Corona Park in Queens, New York City Daniela Bohórquez Sheinin
The Materiality of the Wall(s): Mural Art and Counterspace Appropriation in El Paso’s Chihuahuita and El Segundo Barrio Anna Marta Marini
SECTION III NEGOTIATING STRANGENESS AND MOBILE NEIGHBOURHOODS
Transnational Neighbourhoods in Barbara Honigmann’s Das überirdische Licht (2008) and Chronik meiner Straße (2016) Godela Weiss-Sussex
Territories of Otherness: Genoa’s Prè Neighbourhood as a Deviant Terrain and Exotic Counterspace in Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer’s La Superba (2013) Britta C. Jung
“Your Allah can’t see you here”: Moscow’s Subterranean Spaces and Dissimulated Life in Svetlana Alexievich’s Vremya sekond khend (2013) Emma Crowley
Transnational Neighbourhood and Theatrical Practices: The Concept of Home, Negotiating Strangeness and Familiarity, and the Experience of Migrant Communities in North Essex Mary Mazzilli
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