scholarly journals From urban space to urban history—an introduction

Author(s):  
Miko Flohr
Keyword(s):  
2018 ◽  
Vol 61 (4) ◽  
pp. 726-756
Author(s):  
Florian Riedler

AbstractThis article focuses on communal boundaries in nineteenth-century Ottoman Niš, a city located in what is today southern Serbia. In particular, it explores the implications of Robert Hayden’s model of “antagonistic tolerance” for Ottoman urban history. In a first step, by taking into consideration the urban form of Niš from a long-term historical perspective, we consider how urban space was divided between inhabitants with different religious backgrounds. The article then turns to consider the symbolic boundaries that existed between confessional groups in nineteenth-century Niš, which can be traced by looking at the construction of churches and mosques. By examining the ways in which communal boundaries were expressed, negotiated and changed through church and mosque buildings, we can begin to render the confessional policies of the Ottoman authorities more transparent.


Urban History ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 537-546 ◽  
Author(s):  
MARION PLUSKOTA

Since the first outcries from feminist historians in the early 1970s against the absence of women as historical subjects, tangible progress has been made towards the inclusion of both female and male identities and experiences in historical research. The definition of gender as a ‘category of analysis’ brought about a small revolution in historical research, especially in social, economic and, more recently, cultural history. Traditional narratives about the marginal economic role of women or their limited participation in the public sphere have subsequently been re-evaluated and new hypotheses about people's gendered experiences have emerged. This growing interest in the formation and influence of gender identities is also increasingly discernible in urban history, where gender analysis has proven to be of particular relevance in understanding men's and women's use of urban space and, vice versa, the ways that the urban environment shaped the construction of people's gendered identities.


Urban History ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 509-520 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANNA MAZANIK

Urban studies and urban history have, in recent decades, become a booming field in Russia. The most likely explanation for this is the post-Soviet development and transformation of Russian cities. It is not only the demographic growth – although for some cities it has been quite substantial in the last 25 years – but rather the striking changes made to urban space, economy, governance, social organization and residential patterns that have provoked interest in urban research among scholars and the general public. Reflecting this wave of interest, several new centres of urban studies emerged in Russia during the 2000s (for example, the Strelka Institute, the Graduate School of Urban Studies at the National Research University Higher School of Economics and the programme in urban studies at the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences).


Author(s):  
Fabio Augusto Morales

This paper discusses the restoration project of the Odeion of Perikles at Athens, carried by the Cappadocian king Ariobarzanes II sometime between 63 and 52 BC, after its partial destruction during the Sullan sack of 86 BC. This sack occurred as a punishment for the alliance between Athens and the Pontic king Mithridates VI in his war against Rome. In that context, the restoration project of this fifth century B.C. covered-theatre was meaningful for the formation of diplomatic links and networks between Athens, Rome and Cappadocia, in particular considering the complexity of the antibarbarian narratives involved. From the viewpoint of the Athenian urban history, the restoration project is an eloquent example of a new attitude towards the urban space which would become a central feature in the social production of Athenian space throughout the first century B.C.: the antiquarian urbanism.


Author(s):  
Victoria Konstantinova ◽  
Ihor Lyman

The review is dedicated to activities of Research Institute of Urban History. The main attention turns to directions of the work of the Research Institute: 1. Multifaceted studying of urban history (continuation of individual Institute’s member's studies on various components of the urban past; realization of joint research projects connected with urbanization; organization of conferences and meetings dedicated to urban issues; cooperation with other research in­stitutions and associations involved in studying urban past); 2. Developing a website of the Institute, which should become a platform for communica­tion scholars and the public involved and interested in urban history as well as for publishing articles and archival collections of the Research Institute; 3. Work as editorial board and authors of historical-cultural anthology “Frontiers of the city”. 4. Conducting oral historical research on urban history with the formation of an archive of oral historical narrative (theoretical and practical training for interviewers; preparing and conducting expeditions; systematization, processing the collected materials; preparation of materials for publication); 5. Development and maintenance of the archive of film doc­uments related to urban history (heuristic work in archives; identifying and copying film documents from private collections; participation in creation on the basis of these film documents documentaries and popular science films on the history of cities); 6. Development and maintenance of the depositary of photographs related to the history of “urban space”; 7. Creating in the structure of the Research Institute the Museum of Berdyansk State Pedagog­ical University, which is a broader context may be considered as a museum of the history of education in an urban area; 8. Public activities aimed at popularization of urban history and at the interaction of researchers with society (organization of exhibitions, competitions, etc.; initiation and implementation of public projects).


ILUMINURAS ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 15 (36) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Luiza Goulart Koehler ◽  
Valéria Aydos

Este artigo apresenta uma reflexão sobre as formas de sociabilidade e as relações sociais que habitavam o espaço urbano do Beco do Rosário na Porto Alegre dos anos 1920. Inspiradas pela problemática da espacialização das relações de dominação de classe na urbanização das cidades e da incipiente presença do recorte de raça como central para compreensão desta questão, as autoras convidam os leitores a compartilharem de uma "ficcionalização do passado", (Pesavento, 2003) na linguagem da história em quadrinhos. A partir da perspectiva da personagem Vitória a narrativa busca lançar luz sobre um imaginário possível do ser menina e negra nesta época e enfoca as micro resistências cotidianas (Scott, 2002) de combate aos estereótipos e à discriminação acionadas pela menina. Esta produção de uma "ficção controlada", como a chama Pesavento, propõe não apenas falar de um passado que se "inventa" a partir de fontes de pesquisa primárias e secundárias disponíveis no presente (relatórios da municipalidade, notas de imprensa, mapas e plantas oficiais, atas de vereança, desenhos e literatura), mas também convida o leitor a refletir sobre possíveis quebras de dicotomias entre verdade e ficção, ciência e literatura. Palavras-chave: História Urbana. Beco do Rosário. História em QuadrinhosBeco do Rosário: space and sociabilities of an alley in Porto AlegreAbstractThis article presents a reflection on the forms of sociability and social relations that inhabited the Beco do Rosário urban space in Porto Alegre in the 1920s. Inspired by the problem of spatial relations of class domination in the urbanization of cities and the incipient presence of issue of race as a central matter to understand it, the authors invite readers to share in a "fictionalization of the past" (Pesavento, 2003) in the language of comics. From the perspective of the character Victoria, the narrative seeks to shed light on a possible imaginary of being both a girl and black at that time and focuses on the everyday microresistences (Scott, 2002) to combat stereotypes and discrimination triggered by the girl. This production of a "controlled fiction", as called by Pesavento, proposes not only to talk about a past "invented" from sources of primary and secondary research available at the present (the municipality reports, press releases, maps and official plans, municipal government minutes, drawings and literature), but also invites the reader to reflect on possible breakages of dichotomies between fact and fiction, science and literature.Key words: Urban History. Beco do Rosário. Comics.  


2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 137
Author(s):  
Henry Kam Kah

The re-introduction of multi-party politics and the liberalisation of politics in Cameroon during the 1990s unleashed a venomous language of conflict in some cities. In the coastal region, the expression of “come-no-go,” synonymous to a dreaded skin disease, was/is frequently used to denigrate people from the grassfields of the country. Many were descendants of migrants to the commercial plantations established by the Germans. Meanwhile, the archbishop of Yaounde at the time called Anglophones “l’ennemi dans…la maison” or “enemies in the house.” This followed the launching of the Social Democratic Front (SDF) party in Bamenda against a government ban. This article examines the power of derogatory language in Cameroon’s urban space. Lingoes of conflict and segregation have denigrated some people and remain a challenge to national unity and integration in Cameroon since the reunification of 1961.


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