Intersectionality and the City Exploring Violence and Inequality in Urban Space

1. Introduction: Exploring urban violence and inequality from intersectional perspectives

Lucie Bernroider, Anthony Miro Born, Christy Kulz and Sung Un Gang

Part 1: Conceptual terrains

2. Intersectionality: Gendering and racializing urban spaces

Martina Löw

3. Arriving/being stopped: Six fatal shots and the sociology of place

Thomas Hoebel

4. Only a researcher’s struggle? Reconceiving the ethnographic field as a relational space

Sung Un Gang

5. Exploring urban spaces of socio-environmental entanglement in Lagos: A collaboration between a researcher and a visual artist

Francesca Ceola

6. Urban violence, the state, and intersectionality: A conversation with Javier Auyero

Anthony Miro Born and Javier Auyero

Part 2: The social life of urban violence

7. “Half bread is better than none”: Surviving in the Accra Airport City

Irene Appeaning Addo

8. Negotiating everyday symbolic violence: Young Londoners imagining their futures from a deprived area

Christy Kulz

9. Escaping territories of terror: Protective strategies against intersectional violence at checkpoints

Iryna Ignatieva

10. Young, female, disadvantaged: How parental guidance and societal gender stereotypes shape girls’ and young women’s spatial knowledge

Anna Juliane Heinrich and Angela Million

11. Aging and intersectionality in the city: A critique of spaces of thrownapartness in Berlin (Germany)

Friederike Enßle-Reinhardt and Ilse Helbrecht

12. Affective violence of the gaze in gender-segregated restrooms: An intersectional analysis

Seoyoung Lee

13. Kreuzberg is a construction site: A grounded theory in pictures

Céline Barry

Part 3: Challenging urban violence

14. Intersectional geographies in the urban grid: (B)ordering technologies and migrant agency and resistance

Paula Medina García and Ana Santamarina Guerrero

15. The making of Keung To Bay: Fandom, urban space and affective alliance in Hong Kong

Lucetta Y. L. Kam and Carol P. H. Chow

16. Risky migrants and citizens in need of protection: The transformation of safety on the conjuncture of pandemic and protest

Jin Haritaworn

17. Struggles in search of a ground: Protests after lockdown

Karim Murji and Steve Pile

Biography

Lucie Bernroider, Dr., is an anthropologist at the Collaborative Research Center “Re-Figuration of Spaces” at Technische Universität Berlin. Her research interests include space, gender and class, neoliberal urban development, and the anthropology of violence, with a regional focus on South Asia. She holds a doctorate from the University of Heidelberg and has been a visiting scholar at the Delhi School of Planning and Architecture.

Anthony Miro Born, PhD, is a sociologist and geographer with a particular interest in social inequality. Born’s research focuses on the intersections of urban inequality and social class from multiple perspectives. He is currently an ESRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Christy Kulz, PhD, is a guest professor of sociology at Technische Universität Berlin. Her research interests focus on cultural sociology, with particular attention to how intersectional inequalities are made through everyday practices in urban space. Her publications include the research monograph Factories for Learning (2017) and the edited collection Inside the English Education Lab (2022).

Sung Un Gang, Dr., is a scholar of media and cultural studies at the Institute of Architecture, Technische Universität Berlin. As a research associate at the Collaborative Research Center “Re-Figuration of Spaces,” he investigates the everyday spaces and digital communication practices of queer inhabitants in Seoul, South Korea. His main research areas include queer and intersectional feminism, urban culture and space, and postcolonial historiography.