Central London under siege

Diaspora, 'race' and the right to the (global) city

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3564537
AutoresDavid Garbin (University of Kent, autor de correspondencia), Gareth Millington (0000-0003-3337-1513, University of York)
Año2018
Volumen66
Número1
Páginas138-154
Fecha de publicación2018-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Sociological Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0038-0261 • E-ISSN: 1467-954X
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0038026117703251
OpenAlexW2606997977
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas40

Drawing upon an ethnography of recent Congolese diasporic protests in central London, this article pays attention to the traversal histories of 'race' and the postcolonial dynamics that precede the emergence of a contemporary diasporic 'right to the city' movement. The authors critically engage with Henri Lefebvre's 'right to the city' as a way of explaining how the urban is not only the site but also, increasingly, a stake in urban protests. In doing so the authors relocate urban centrality - its meaning, symbolic power and heuristic status in protests - in a context where activists' claims are not restricted to one city or, simply, the political present. Rather, protestors talk about making geopolitical connections between local and global scales and contemporary and historical injustices. Drawing upon Simone's notion of 'black urbanism', the authors claim to enrich Lefebvre's original formulation by unpacking the complex performative dimensions of protest as they intersect with race and, more specifically, blackness and postcolonialism. It is concluded that activists' experience is fundamentally ambivalent; they are at once enchanted and disenchanted with protest in central London

Aesthetics · Context (archaeology) · Diaspora · Global city · Media studies · Performative utterance · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Right to the city · Sociology · Transnationalism · Urbanism · Architecture · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · History · Law · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Migration, Refugees, and Integration