European cities
Modernity, race and colonialism
European cities: Modernity, race and colonialism is a multidisciplinary collection of scholarly studies that sets out to rethink urban Europe from a race-conscious perspective, reflexively and critically aware of colonial entanglements and what came to be known as 'modernity'.
The twelve original contributions empirically focus on such various cities as Barcelona, Buenos Aires, Cottbus, Hamburg, Madrid, Mitrovica, Paris, Sheffield and Thessaloniki, engaging multiple combinations of urban studies with postcolonial, decolonial and race critical theories. In these chapters, European cities across the East-West divide are decentred and detached from dominant Eurocentric analyses and representations; viewed from global and historical perspectives, destabilising their aura of alleged 'modernity' offers the reader an opportunity to understand and imagine urban living and politics otherwise. Drawing on decades of rigorous critical race scholarship on varied global urban regions, this book unravels and explains key articulations of race and urbanity in Europe.
European cities is vital reading for anyone interested in interrogating the complex interactions between colonial legacies and constructions of 'modernity' in order to rethink the figure of the European city.
Noa K. Ha is Lecturer in Spatial Strategies at the Weissensee Academy of Art Berlin.
Giovanni Picker is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Glasgow.
