Garbin, David and Millington, Gareth Robert orcid.org/0000-0003-3337-1513 (2018) "Central London Under Siege": Diaspora, 'Race' and the Right to the (global) City. The Sociological Review. 138–154. ISSN 1467-954X
Abstract
Drawing upon an ethnography of recent Congolese diasporic protests in central London, this article pays attention to the traversal histories of ‘race’ and the postcolonial dynamics that precede the emergence of a contemporary diasporic ‘right to the city’ movement. The authors critically engage with Henri Lefebvre’s ‘right to the city’ as a way of explaining how the urban is not only the site but also, increasingly, a stake in urban protests. In doing so the authors relocate urban centrality – its meaning, symbolic power and heuristic status in protests – in a context where activists’ claims are not restricted to one city or, simply, the political present. Rather, protestors talk about making geopolitical connections between local and global scales and contemporary and historical injustices. Drawing upon Simone’s notion of ‘black urbanism’, the authors claim to enrich Lefebvre’s original formulation by unpacking the complex performative dimensions of protest as they intersect with race and, more specifically, blackness and postcolonialism. It is concluded that activists’ experience is fundamentally ambivalent; they are at once enchanted and disenchanted with protest in central London.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Keywords: | Congolese,Henri Lefebvre,London,diaspora protests,postcolonial urbanism,right to the city,urban centrality,urban social movements |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Social Sciences (York) > Sociology (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 19 Jul 2017 11:30 |
Last Modified: | 21 Jan 2025 17:27 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1177/0038026117703251 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/0038026117703251 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:119247 |
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