Gareth Millington
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 124669 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Gareth Millington |
| PRENOMES | Gareth |
| SOBRENOME | Millington |
| ASSINATURA | MILLINGTON G |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of York |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3337-1513 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 22 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 109 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2005 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Images Assisting Wor[l]ds
Black history murals are often understood as examples of state or corporate obfuscation of racial inequality, sometimes known as “artwashing”; or, conversely, as “insurgent” political interventions. Focusing on murals in historically Black neighborhoods in South and West Philadelphia, this article instead highlights the processual, but no less political, relations involved in the production of Black history murals. Departing from “presentist” pol…
History, Healing, and the African American Museum in Philadelphia
This article is about a museum and its city. During the Covid-19 lockdowns of 2020 and 2021, the Philadelphia Black Docents Collective (BDC), based at the African American Museum in Philadelphia (AAMP) decided that if the museum could not open, they would continue their work in other ways. Using the city as a 'living archive' they led tours, gave talks and produced online resources. Our focus is on BDC's claim that by sharing the history of black…
Feminisms, women's histories and heritage in 'inner city' London and Paris
Despite being stigmatised and racialised during the latter half of the twentieth century, the 'inner city' in London and quartier populaire in Paris also became known for resistance, conviviality and possibility. These aspects are now being remembered in varied public forms, from murals to museums, archives to monuments. This article has two aims. First, to outline examples of curatorial activism and the heritagisation of feminism/s and women's h…
Negotiations with whiteness in British Turkish Muslims' encounters with Islamophobia
In the post-9/11 and 7/7 era in Britain, Muslim subjects have been racially labelled as non-white, equated with a security threat. Similarly, within Turkey's secular public sphere, Muslims are portrayed as anti-modern and illiberal. This prompts some British Turkish Muslims, descendants of immigrant Turks, to strategically embrace white, European identities. Drawing from semi-structured interviews, this article reveals how 'whiteness' is a privil…
Version city
Small Axe, directed by Steve McQueen for BBC / Amazon Studios, was released in the UK and US over Autumn-Wintser 2021/22. Across five films it acknowledges events and records experiences of African Caribbean populations in London during the 1970s and 1980s. Drawing upon semi-structured interviews with members of the production team and mise-en-scène analysis, our aim is to understand how Small Axe contributes to the production of urban history by…
Neo-Pentecostal Urban Infrastructures in Lagos, Nigeria
This article examines how the urban fabric of Lagos is being transformed by neo-Pentecostal forms of Christian religiosity-a transformation not only of inner, 'private' lives but also of urban infrastructures and their provision. Neo-Pentecostal churches in Lagos now provide a range of infrastructures such as roads, bridges, electricity, water, healthcare, plus banking and educational facilities as well as a range of residential options. Church e…
Cosmopolitisation, urbanisation and circulation
Peterborough is a perfect city from which to understand every day, vernacular or ‘bottom-up’ iterations of cosmopolitanism. It is also an ideal place from which to observe the social effects of exp
What makes city life meaningful is the things we hide’
In this article we bring Marshall Berman’s writings on public space, politics and subjectivity into dialogue with a literary rendering of similar themes by Orhan Pamuk in his 2015 novel A Strangeness in my Mind. Our aim is to elaborate upon Berman’s undeveloped notion of ‘existential space’—first suggested in a review of an earlier Pamuk novel—through an extended encounter between the authors. This article begins by comparing the urban writings o…
Central London under siege
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 …
I found the truth in Foot Locker”
The article begins with an overview of what is implied in the notion of the “post‐political” before looking closely at post‐political interpretations of the 2011 London riots. It presents a critique of the restricted sense of political subjectivity in such accounts. It demonstrates how participation in the riots and their aftermath may be seen as indicative of an embryonic form of urban politics that works with and against the post‐political city…
The cosmopolitan contradictions of planetary urbanization
This paper explores the empirical, conceptual and theoretical gains that can be made using cosmopolitan social theory to think through the urban transformations that scholars have in recent years termed planetary urbanization. Recognizing the global spread of urbanization makes the need for a cosmopolitan urban sociology more pressing than ever. Here, it is suggested that critical urban sociology can be invigorated by focusing upon the disconnect…
Sub/Urban Histories Against The Grain
This paper considers how literary and cinematic constructions of Essex noir expose the darker, chaotic sides to working-class embourgeoisement: initially via post-War suburbanisation and later, via Margaret Thatcher's attempt to encourage competitive individualism and entrepreneurship. Noir angles a "dark mirror" to suburban Essex and develops a distinctive aesthetics of social and cultural change, while also puncturing myths of social mobility a…
Urbanization and the City Image in Lowry at Tate Britain
This article explores cultural cityism at a time when a more expansive, 'planetary' urbanization is argued to have superseded 'the city' as the dominant urban form. It takes an essentially Lefebvrian problematic and works this through an examination of one aspect of contemporary metropolitan culture, the L.S. Lowry exhibition at Tate Britain, held in the summer of 2013. The article scrutinizes the juxtaposition of Lowry's images of the industrial…
Remaining faithful to the city
Marshall Berman was an optimistic and provocative writer on cities and urban life. The article begins by examining examples of Marshall Berman’s unique approach to understanding the potential of cities to help people discover themselves and each other, including his analysis of Alfred Eistenstaedt’s photograph of the VJ Day kiss in Times Square (included in his final book On the Town). Berman’s unique contribution to understanding urban culture, …
Anti-riots“ und Postpolitik in der neoliberalen Stadt
The outer-inner city
This article explores the emergence of ‘outer-inner cities’ located on the periphery of London and New York. As traditional ‘zones in transitions’ and inner city districts of both cities have gentrified, these neighbourhoods no longer offer an affordable entry point to the low-waged immigrants whose work is necessary to keep the global city working. Moreover neoliberal practices of immigrant and working class dispersal in addition to the manipula…
Man Dem Link Up
Commentaries on the London riots of August 2011 have tended to ignore the urban context of the disturbances or have treated the city and the urban as an implicit part of their analysis - merely as a backdrop to events. This paper offers an urban perspective in arguing that the socio-spatiality of contemporary London - the legacy of competing forms of urban modernism - plays a critical role in explaining how and why the disturbances unfolded in th…
'Race', Culture and the Right to the City
'Race', Culture and the Right to the City
Adopting a perspective inspired by Henri Lefebvre, this book considers the spread of multiculture from the central city to the periphery and considers the role that 'race' continues to play in structu
Territorial Stigma and the Politics of Resistance in a Parisian Banlieue
Drawing on research carried out in the Parisian banlieue of La Courneuve, this article contributes to the sociological analysis of urban marginalisation in post-riot France. Beginning with a discussion of the broad relationship between society and space, drawing on Pierre Bourdieu's relational understanding of social space and how these complexities are inscribed in the urban, it moves on to consider how this relates to Lefebvre's production of s…
Racism, Class Ethos and Place
The British public view asylum-seekers in generally negative terms. Yet whilst there are an abundance of reports and opinion polls that measure levels of hostility in order to fuel political 'debate' very little is known about how asylum seekers are spoken about in more quotidian contexts. Based on an ethnographic study of racism in Southend-on-Sea, Essex this paper identifies two kinds of narrative (abstract truths and context-dependent stories)…
Meaning, materials and melancholia
Whilst social science has recognized that racist discourse often attempts to ‘fix’ outsider groups to particular locations, much less has been said about the locations themselves. The Palace Hotel is a prominent feature in gossip and public debate concerning the presence of ‘asylum-seekers’ in the seaside town of Southend-on-Sea, Essex. This paper considers why this is so. As a basis for the development of a theoretical model, the focus of the pa…
Territorial Stigma and the Politics of Resistance in a Parisian Banlieue
Drawing on research carried out in the Parisian banlieue of La Courneuve, this article contributes to the sociological analysis of urban marginalisation in post-riot France. Beginning with a discussion of the broad relationship between society and space, drawing on Pierre Bourdieu's relational understanding of social space and how these complexities are inscribed in the urban, it moves on to consider how this relates to Lefebvre's production of s…
I found the truth in Foot Locker”
The article begins with an overview of what is implied in the notion of the “post‐political” before looking closely at post‐political interpretations of the 2011 London riots. It presents a critique of the restricted sense of political subjectivity in such accounts. It demonstrates how participation in the riots and their aftermath may be seen as indicative of an embryonic form of urban politics that works with and against the post‐political city…
The cosmopolitan contradictions of planetary urbanization
This paper explores the empirical, conceptual and theoretical gains that can be made using cosmopolitan social theory to think through the urban transformations that scholars have in recent years termed planetary urbanization. Recognizing the global spread of urbanization makes the need for a cosmopolitan urban sociology more pressing than ever. Here, it is suggested that critical urban sociology can be invigorated by focusing upon the disconnect…
Meaning, materials and melancholia
Whilst social science has recognized that racist discourse often attempts to ‘fix’ outsider groups to particular locations, much less has been said about the locations themselves. The Palace Hotel is a prominent feature in gossip and public debate concerning the presence of ‘asylum-seekers’ in the seaside town of Southend-on-Sea, Essex. This paper considers why this is so. As a basis for the development of a theoretical model, the focus of the pa…
Negotiations with whiteness in British Turkish Muslims' encounters with Islamophobia
In the post-9/11 and 7/7 era in Britain, Muslim subjects have been racially labelled as non-white, equated with a security threat. Similarly, within Turkey's secular public sphere, Muslims are portrayed as anti-modern and illiberal. This prompts some British Turkish Muslims, descendants of immigrant Turks, to strategically embrace white, European identities. Drawing from semi-structured interviews, this article reveals how 'whiteness' is a privil…
Man Dem Link Up
Commentaries on the London riots of August 2011 have tended to ignore the urban context of the disturbances or have treated the city and the urban as an implicit part of their analysis - merely as a backdrop to events. This paper offers an urban perspective in arguing that the socio-spatiality of contemporary London - the legacy of competing forms of urban modernism - plays a critical role in explaining how and why the disturbances unfolded in th…
Racism, Class Ethos and Place
The British public view asylum-seekers in generally negative terms. Yet whilst there are an abundance of reports and opinion polls that measure levels of hostility in order to fuel political 'debate' very little is known about how asylum seekers are spoken about in more quotidian contexts. Based on an ethnographic study of racism in Southend-on-Sea, Essex this paper identifies two kinds of narrative (abstract truths and context-dependent stories)…
Urbanization and the City Image in Lowry at Tate Britain
This article explores cultural cityism at a time when a more expansive, 'planetary' urbanization is argued to have superseded 'the city' as the dominant urban form. It takes an essentially Lefebvrian problematic and works this through an examination of one aspect of contemporary metropolitan culture, the L.S. Lowry exhibition at Tate Britain, held in the summer of 2013. The article scrutinizes the juxtaposition of Lowry's images of the industrial…
Central London under siege
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 …
Neo-Pentecostal Urban Infrastructures in Lagos, Nigeria
This article examines how the urban fabric of Lagos is being transformed by neo-Pentecostal forms of Christian religiosity-a transformation not only of inner, 'private' lives but also of urban infrastructures and their provision. Neo-Pentecostal churches in Lagos now provide a range of infrastructures such as roads, bridges, electricity, water, healthcare, plus banking and educational facilities as well as a range of residential options. Church e…
What makes city life meaningful is the things we hide’
In this article we bring Marshall Berman’s writings on public space, politics and subjectivity into dialogue with a literary rendering of similar themes by Orhan Pamuk in his 2015 novel A Strangeness in my Mind. Our aim is to elaborate upon Berman’s undeveloped notion of ‘existential space’—first suggested in a review of an earlier Pamuk novel—through an extended encounter between the authors. This article begins by comparing the urban writings o…
Sub/Urban Histories Against The Grain
This paper considers how literary and cinematic constructions of Essex noir expose the darker, chaotic sides to working-class embourgeoisement: initially via post-War suburbanisation and later, via Margaret Thatcher's attempt to encourage competitive individualism and entrepreneurship. Noir angles a "dark mirror" to suburban Essex and develops a distinctive aesthetics of social and cultural change, while also puncturing myths of social mobility a…
Meaning, materials and melancholia
Whilst social science has recognized that racist discourse often attempts to ‘fix’ outsider groups to particular locations, much less has been said about the locations themselves. The Palace Hotel is a prominent feature in gossip and public debate concerning the presence of ‘asylum-seekers’ in the seaside town of Southend-on-Sea, Essex. This paper considers why this is so. As a basis for the development of a theoretical model, the focus of the pa…
Racism, Class Ethos and Place
The British public view asylum-seekers in generally negative terms. Yet whilst there are an abundance of reports and opinion polls that measure levels of hostility in order to fuel political 'debate' very little is known about how asylum seekers are spoken about in more quotidian contexts. Based on an ethnographic study of racism in Southend-on-Sea, Essex this paper identifies two kinds of narrative (abstract truths and context-dependent stories)…
'Race', Culture and the Right to the City
'Race', Culture and the Right to the City
Adopting a perspective inspired by Henri Lefebvre, this book considers the spread of multiculture from the central city to the periphery and considers the role that 'race' continues to play in structu
Territorial Stigma and the Politics of Resistance in a Parisian Banlieue
Drawing on research carried out in the Parisian banlieue of La Courneuve, this article contributes to the sociological analysis of urban marginalisation in post-riot France. Beginning with a discussion of the broad relationship between society and space, drawing on Pierre Bourdieu's relational understanding of social space and how these complexities are inscribed in the urban, it moves on to consider how this relates to Lefebvre's production of s…
The outer-inner city
This article explores the emergence of ‘outer-inner cities’ located on the periphery of London and New York. As traditional ‘zones in transitions’ and inner city districts of both cities have gentrified, these neighbourhoods no longer offer an affordable entry point to the low-waged immigrants whose work is necessary to keep the global city working. Moreover neoliberal practices of immigrant and working class dispersal in addition to the manipula…
Man Dem Link Up
Commentaries on the London riots of August 2011 have tended to ignore the urban context of the disturbances or have treated the city and the urban as an implicit part of their analysis - merely as a backdrop to events. This paper offers an urban perspective in arguing that the socio-spatiality of contemporary London - the legacy of competing forms of urban modernism - plays a critical role in explaining how and why the disturbances unfolded in th…
Anti-riots“ und Postpolitik in der neoliberalen Stadt
Remaining faithful to the city
Marshall Berman was an optimistic and provocative writer on cities and urban life. The article begins by examining examples of Marshall Berman’s unique approach to understanding the potential of cities to help people discover themselves and each other, including his analysis of Alfred Eistenstaedt’s photograph of the VJ Day kiss in Times Square (included in his final book On the Town). Berman’s unique contribution to understanding urban culture, …
I found the truth in Foot Locker”
The article begins with an overview of what is implied in the notion of the “post‐political” before looking closely at post‐political interpretations of the 2011 London riots. It presents a critique of the restricted sense of political subjectivity in such accounts. It demonstrates how participation in the riots and their aftermath may be seen as indicative of an embryonic form of urban politics that works with and against the post‐political city…
The cosmopolitan contradictions of planetary urbanization
This paper explores the empirical, conceptual and theoretical gains that can be made using cosmopolitan social theory to think through the urban transformations that scholars have in recent years termed planetary urbanization. Recognizing the global spread of urbanization makes the need for a cosmopolitan urban sociology more pressing than ever. Here, it is suggested that critical urban sociology can be invigorated by focusing upon the disconnect…
Sub/Urban Histories Against The Grain
This paper considers how literary and cinematic constructions of Essex noir expose the darker, chaotic sides to working-class embourgeoisement: initially via post-War suburbanisation and later, via Margaret Thatcher's attempt to encourage competitive individualism and entrepreneurship. Noir angles a "dark mirror" to suburban Essex and develops a distinctive aesthetics of social and cultural change, while also puncturing myths of social mobility a…
Urbanization and the City Image in Lowry at Tate Britain
This article explores cultural cityism at a time when a more expansive, 'planetary' urbanization is argued to have superseded 'the city' as the dominant urban form. It takes an essentially Lefebvrian problematic and works this through an examination of one aspect of contemporary metropolitan culture, the L.S. Lowry exhibition at Tate Britain, held in the summer of 2013. The article scrutinizes the juxtaposition of Lowry's images of the industrial…
Central London under siege
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 …
What makes city life meaningful is the things we hide’
In this article we bring Marshall Berman’s writings on public space, politics and subjectivity into dialogue with a literary rendering of similar themes by Orhan Pamuk in his 2015 novel A Strangeness in my Mind. Our aim is to elaborate upon Berman’s undeveloped notion of ‘existential space’—first suggested in a review of an earlier Pamuk novel—through an extended encounter between the authors. This article begins by comparing the urban writings o…
Cosmopolitisation, urbanisation and circulation
Peterborough is a perfect city from which to understand every day, vernacular or ‘bottom-up’ iterations of cosmopolitanism. It is also an ideal place from which to observe the social effects of exp
Version city
Small Axe, directed by Steve McQueen for BBC / Amazon Studios, was released in the UK and US over Autumn-Wintser 2021/22. Across five films it acknowledges events and records experiences of African Caribbean populations in London during the 1970s and 1980s. Drawing upon semi-structured interviews with members of the production team and mise-en-scène analysis, our aim is to understand how Small Axe contributes to the production of urban history by…
Neo-Pentecostal Urban Infrastructures in Lagos, Nigeria
This article examines how the urban fabric of Lagos is being transformed by neo-Pentecostal forms of Christian religiosity-a transformation not only of inner, 'private' lives but also of urban infrastructures and their provision. Neo-Pentecostal churches in Lagos now provide a range of infrastructures such as roads, bridges, electricity, water, healthcare, plus banking and educational facilities as well as a range of residential options. Church e…
History, Healing, and the African American Museum in Philadelphia
This article is about a museum and its city. During the Covid-19 lockdowns of 2020 and 2021, the Philadelphia Black Docents Collective (BDC), based at the African American Museum in Philadelphia (AAMP) decided that if the museum could not open, they would continue their work in other ways. Using the city as a 'living archive' they led tours, gave talks and produced online resources. Our focus is on BDC's claim that by sharing the history of black…
Feminisms, women's histories and heritage in 'inner city' London and Paris
Despite being stigmatised and racialised during the latter half of the twentieth century, the 'inner city' in London and quartier populaire in Paris also became known for resistance, conviviality and possibility. These aspects are now being remembered in varied public forms, from murals to museums, archives to monuments. This article has two aims. First, to outline examples of curatorial activism and the heritagisation of feminism/s and women's h…
Negotiations with whiteness in British Turkish Muslims' encounters with Islamophobia
In the post-9/11 and 7/7 era in Britain, Muslim subjects have been racially labelled as non-white, equated with a security threat. Similarly, within Turkey's secular public sphere, Muslims are portrayed as anti-modern and illiberal. This prompts some British Turkish Muslims, descendants of immigrant Turks, to strategically embrace white, European identities. Drawing from semi-structured interviews, this article reveals how 'whiteness' is a privil…
Images Assisting Wor[l]ds
Black history murals are often understood as examples of state or corporate obfuscation of racial inequality, sometimes known as “artwashing”; or, conversely, as “insurgent” political interventions. Focusing on murals in historically Black neighborhoods in South and West Philadelphia, this article instead highlights the processual, but no less political, relations involved in the production of Black history murals. Departing from “presentist” pol…
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