Introduction

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Camilo D. Trumper
Keyword(s):  
Urban Politics ◽  
Nicolas Guillen

Álvaro Ramírez’s documentary short, Brigada Ramona Parra, is a synesthetic exploration of urban politics in Chile. The folkloric group Quilapayun’s memorable interpretation of the Nicolás Guillén poem La Muralla, set to music in the late 1960s, initially dominates the movie’s soundscape. But the sound is jagged, cutting suddenly as the filmmakers follow members of the Communist Youth’s Brigada Ramona Parra (BRP) muralist “brigades.” Quilapayun gives way to the sounds of the young members’ chants, the rumble of the street, interviews, and everyday conversations that contextualize the grainy images of the Brigada. Ramírez’s camera stays with the ...

Space

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian D. Liddy
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Urban Politics ◽  
Spatial Politics ◽  
Common Lands ◽  
Ordinary Citizens

Urban liberties—the privileges and responsibilities linked to citizenship—were understood spatially. This chapter argues that urban politics were spatial politics. Space was not only the terrain upon which wider political battles were fought, but the object of contestation in its own right. The chapter identifies an idea of public space, in which ordinary citizens were anxious about and sensitive to its proper use. Spatial politics in towns were specifically about boundaries. Townspeople conceived a connection between three seemingly separate practices: encroachment upon streets and lanes; the segregation of religious houses within ecclesiastical closes; and the enclosure of common lands. In the course of their disputes, townspeople learned to become citizens.

Contesting the City

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian D. Liddy
Keyword(s):  
Urban Politics ◽  
Low Countries ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Urban Citizenship ◽  
Town Government ◽  
Medieval Europe ◽  
Political Narrative ◽  
Classical Models ◽  
The Rich ◽  
The City

The political narrative of late medieval English towns is often reduced to the story of the gradual intensification of oligarchy, in which power was exercised and projected by an ever smaller ruling group over an increasingly subservient urban population. This book takes its inspiration not from English historiography, but from a more dynamic continental scholarship on towns in the southern Low Countries, Germany, and France. Its premise is that scholarly debate about urban oligarchy has obscured contemporary debate about urban citizenship. It identifies from the records of English towns a tradition of urban citizenship, which did not draw upon the intellectual legacy of classical models of the ‘citizen’. This was a vernacular citizenship, which was not peculiar to England, but which was present elsewhere in late medieval Europe. It was a citizenship that was defined and created through action. There were multiple, and divergent, ideas about citizenship, which encouraged townspeople to make demands, to assert rights, and to resist authority. This book exploits the rich archival sources of the five major towns in England—Bristol, Coventry, London, Norwich, and York—in order to present a new picture of town government and urban politics over three centuries. The power of urban governors was much more precarious than historians have imagined. Urban oligarchy could never prevail—whether ideologically or in practice—when there was never a single, fixed meaning of the citizen.

‘Seeing like a city’, or ‘seeing like a state’ in a city? Paris, capital of femonationalism

2021 ◽  
pp. 239965442110025
Author(s):  
Claire Hancock
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Urban Politics ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Common Factor ◽  
Local Democracy ◽  
Municipal Policy ◽  
City Life ◽  
Women In Decision Making ◽  
The City

This paper questions the ‘seeing like a city’ vs. ‘seeing like a state’ opposition through a detailed discussion of urban politics in the city of Paris, France, a prime example of the ways in which the national remains a driving dimension of city life. This claim is examined by a consideration of the shortcomings of Paris’s recent and timid commitment local democracy, lacking recognition of the diversity of its citizens, and the ways in which the inclusion of more women in decision-making arenas has failed to advance the ‘feminization of politics’. A common factor in these defining features of the Hidalgo administration seems to be the prevalence of ‘femonationalism’ and its influence over municipal policy-making.

scholarly journals Organising care and community in the era of the ‘gay disease’: Gay community responses to HIV/AIDS and the production of differentiated care geographies in Vancouver

Urban Studies ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 004209802098490
Author(s):  
John Paul Catungal ◽  
Benjamin Klassen ◽  
Robert Ablenas ◽  
Sandy Lambert ◽  
Sarah Chown ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Politics ◽  
Systems Of Care ◽  
The West ◽  
Gay Community ◽  
Gendered Politics ◽  
Aids Crisis ◽  
Social Geographies ◽  
Long Term Survivors ◽  
Differentiated Care ◽  
Hiv Aids

Scholarship on the place of the HIV/AIDS crisis in urban geographies of sexual minority activism has powerfully insisted on the importance of community organising as a response to state and societal failures and to their homophobic, AIDS phobic and morally conservative underpinnings. This paper extends this scholarship by examining the urban social geographies of exclusion produced by such community organising efforts. It draws on the perspectives of long-term survivors of HIV/AIDS (LTS) in Vancouver to highlight the differentiated care geographies of HIV/AIDS that resulted from the racialised, classed and gendered politics and urban imaginations enacted by gay and allied HIV/AIDS organising. Though LTS networks, spaces and politics of care and community were more extended than Vancouver’s gay community during the 1980s and 1990s, the centring of the West End gay village in many community-led responses to HIV/AIDS resulted in LTS geographies outside the West End being excluded from important systems of care and community. LTS narratives of the city at the time of the ‘gay disease’ thus tell an urban politics of sexual and health activisms as shaped not only by processes of heteronormativity and homophobia but also of racially, colonially and class-inflected homonormative urban imaginaries.

Ashé-Caribbean Imagery and Folklore in Four Poems of Nicolás Guillén

CLA Journal ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 61 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 5-30
Author(s):  
Thomas Edison
Keyword(s):  
Nicolas Guillen
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