Global Coventry
Migration, Diaspora and Place-Making
Global Coventry
Migration, Diaspora and Place-Making
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Description
This exciting collection of interdisciplinary essays studies the cultural history of Coventry's global populations.
Coventry has long been a place where diverse cultures mix. Attracting workers, traders and artisans, as well as migrants, refugees and students, the city is home to an incredible range of global and local communities and yet its place in the history of English cities, urban studies, and British social history has been obscure. Global Coventry: Migration, Diaspora and Place-Making offers an insightful and novel collection of essays by historians, sociologists, geographers and community-based scholars to make the case for Coventry's significance across these disciplines.
Focusing in particular on Coventry's Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities but also well beyond, Global Coventry contributes to histories of place-making by foregrounding race, gender, class and sexuality as essential to our understanding of the city.
Across thirteen chapters, Global Coventry provides a wide-ranging analysis of the historical and social trajectories which brought people from all over the world to the city and how they made sense of their lives. The contributions expand on Coventry's global and imperial connections, its built and affective environments, and the creative and contested belonging forged by its migrant and refugee communities. They show the strength of Coventry's global entanglements, and its effects in generating a distinct urban space
If you are interested in urban studies, histories of place-making and regional multiculture in modern British history, Global Coventry is essential reading.
Table of Contents
Part I: New Ways of Seeing the City
2. Since when are we global? Material traces of Coventry's global past', 1700-1875, Anne Gerritsen (University of Warwick, UK)
3. Ethnicity and unemployment in Coventry, 1981-2021, Matteo Mazzamurro (Queen Mary University London)
4. Beyond the Frame: Photography and the Hidden Histories of South Asian Coventry, Pippa Virdee (University of Warwick, UK)
Part II: Interventions and Encounters in the City
5. The half-mile-walk: dust, holes, frictions, and reconciliation, Aya Nassar (Durham University) and Nirmal Puwar (Goldsmiths, University of London)
6. Spatial Inscriptions: Exploring Narratives and Experiences of Race, Gender and Class in the City, Tana Forrest (University of Edinburgh, UK)
7. The Coventry Community Development Project: Race and Poverty in 1970s Hillfields, Ben Kyneswood (Coventry University, UK)
8. Twice Forgotten: Archives, Memory and the Coventry Experiment, Shahnaz Akhter (University of Warwick, UK)
Part IV: Place-making in the City
9. Kin Wa (26 Warwick Row): The Chinese meeting place in Coventry, 1960s-80s, Pippa Virdee (University of Warwick, UK) and Rakesh Ankit (Loughborough University, UK)
10. Queer Migrants of Colour in Coventry, Somak Biswas (University of Warwick, UK)
11. 'For me, here life is perfect': Coventry Voices Echoed by a Research-Art Response, Reem Doukmak (University of Warwick, UK) and Paul O'Donnell (Independent Artist)
12. Kalmaan Coventry Diyaaan: The Quills of Coventry; Vernacular Writing in the City, Virinder S. Kalra (University of Warwick, UK)
13. 'Sent from Coventry', Somak Biswas (University of Warwick, UK), Anne Gerritsen (University of Warwick, UK), Aya Nassar (Durham University, UK), Pippa Virdee (University of Warwick, UK)
Product details
| Published | 08 Jul 2027 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 256 |
| ISBN | 9781350519992 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 20 bw illus |
| Dimensions | 234 x 156 mm |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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