1st Edition
Urban Marginality, Racialisation, Interdependence Learning from Eastern Europe
1. Thinking from the East: Urban marginality, racialisation and interdependence in Eastern Europe
Filip Alexandrescu, Ryan Powell and Ana Vilenica
Part 1. Racialisation and the production of the urban margins
2. Dispossessed, segregated, exploited: On racialised residential capitalism in postsocialist Czechia
Václav Walach and Petr Kupka
3. Urbanization of racial capitalism in Serbia: Transition, racialisation, evictions
Ana Vilenica and Vladimir Mentus
4. From social housing to evictions: State-led displacement and the urban poor in Bucharest
Irina Zamfirescu
5. Maintaining marginality: A genealogy of security mechanisms against Roma in Baia Mare
Manuel Mireanu
Part 2. Mobilities and the shifting urban margins
6. Human capital and digital citizenship: Postsocialism’s urban dispossessions
Erin McElroy
7. Locked in permanent temporariness: Internally displaced persons in Serbia
Stefan Surlic, Natalija Perisic and Jelena Birmancevic
8. The Russian minority in the Baltic capitals: Examining marginalisation in the context of urban dynamics
Rūta Ubarevičienė and Donatas Burneika
Part 3. Enduring and countering urban marginality
9. Depoliticised urban commons: Romania’s perpetuating slum formations, deepening housing struggles, and political disinterest
Dominic Teodorescu
10. Doing and undoing communities: Opposing municipal narratives and spatial politics in a diverse neighbourhood of Budapest
Vera Messing and Tünde Virág
11. Between transformation and marginality: Urban life and socially engaged art at the fringe of Prishtina
Vjollca Krasniqi and Blerta Hoçia
12. Infrastructures of marginality in a city with “war on the horizon”: Insights from Lyman, Ukraine
Anastasiya Ryabchuk and Olga Papash
Part 4. Race, post-socialism and the city: Reflections and new horizons
13. Roma ghettos within the abyss of European modernity: Technologies of control and emancipatory horizons
Cayetano Fernández
14. Post-socialist racial geographies studies
Michele Lancione
Biography
Filip Alexandrescu is a Senior Researcher (2nd degree) at the Research Institute for Quality of Life in Bucharest, Romania.
Ryan Powell is Professor of Urban Studies in the School of Geography and Planning at the University of Sheffield, UK.
Ana Vilenica is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow for the ERC project ‘Inhabiting Radical Housing’ at the Polytechnic and University of Turin’s Inter-university Department of Regional & Urban Studies and Planning (DIST) and a core member of the Beyond Inhabitation Lab.
“This is a crucial and long overdue intervention in critical urban thought that refines our understanding of interdependence. By explaining global urban linkages hitherto only partially considered while centring the margins of heterogeneous geographies of the European East, its thoughtful lessons will spur both scholarly debates and community struggles for racial justice”.
-Giovanni Picker, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of Glasgow, and author of ‘Racial Cities’.
“The volume is a rich kaleidoscope of faces of urban marginality in Eastern Europe – from racialised dispossession of Roma, through forms of collective displacement to glimpses of hope and resistance. A scholarly case for analytical relevance of categories of racial capitalism and post-socialism in the 21st century”.
-Barbora Černušáková, Hallsworth Fellow, University of Manchester.
“Eastern European cities have been at the forefront of many ambitious and contested forms of urbanism in the 20th century, and are at the forefront of illiberalism, racial capitalism, and urban warfare in the 21st century. This is a tour-de-force for provincializing the study of urban marginality”.
-Liviu Chelcea, University of Bucharest.
“The book is essential to East European scholarship. It could be a start, alongside similar endeavors from the region, for remaking urban studies beyond geographical dichotomies by examining how capitalism became global through dismantling East European state socialism and shaping its post-socialist transformations.”
-Enikő Vincze, urban and housing studies scholar and activist.
