As GUHP approaches its first birthday, the editors of Noteworthy have devoted this ninth edition to the recent work of some of the Project's founding members. As you'll see they do a great job of furthering Noteworthy's mission to highlight the sheer breadth of scholarship in the field of global urban history.
As usual, please consider forwarding this list to your university librarian--or adding these titles to your personal wish list.
In this edition we also salute the Centre for Urban History at Leicester, our partner in the conference "The Pursuit of Global Urban History" (July 11-12. 2019)
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Brand New "Historical Approaches to Researching the Global Urban"
by Mariana Dantas (History, Ohio, USA)
and Emma Hart (History, St. Andrews, UK)
In their recently published chapter, “Historical Approaches to Researching the Global Urban,” GUHP founding members Emma Hart and Mariana Dantas consider the challenges, the payoff, and possible methodological approaches to global urban history. They invite historians of the city, and historians of global history to move beyond narrating the trajectory of urban places or situating global processes in urban locations. Through research collaboration and more readily exchange of ideas and findings, they argue, historians of the global urban can elucidate the ways in which cities have been the product and the promoters of global connections, and thus key to understanding historical consistencies over time and space. The essay is one of sixteen chapters written by authors from a wide variety of disciplines, including geography, sociology, and political science.
GUHP profile: Dantas, Hart; Author website: Dantas, Hart
Peruse the entire table of contents of the collection, co-edited by another GUHP member, Michael Hoyler
Doing Global Urban Research
Edited by John Harrison, Geography, Loughborough (UK)
and Michael Hoyler, Geography, Loughborough (UK)
(SAGE Publications 2018)
Whether you are an urban geographer, an urban sociologist or an urban political scientist, and whether you take a qualitative, quantitative or mixed methods approach, the challenge that confronts researchers of our increasingly "globalized" urban studies remains fundamentally the same—how to make sense of urban complexity. This book confronts this challenge by exploring the various methodological approaches for doing global urban research, including Comparative Urbanism, Social Network Analysis, and Data Visualization. With contributions from leading scholars across the world, Doing Global Urban Research offers a key forum to discuss how the practice of research can deepen our knowledge of globalized urbanization. [more]
GUHP profile: Hoyler; Editor website: Hoyler, Harrison
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“Anti-gentrification Campaigns and the Fight for Local Control in California Cities”
in New Global Studies
by Nancy Kwak, History, UC San Diego (USA)
Vol. 12, no. 1, Aril 2018, 9–20
Gentrification is integral to the functioning of global cities: international developers raze old housing and renovate industrial lofts for elite service workers seeking central-city accommodations. In the process, local real estate markets heat up and working-class residents find themselves priced out, displaced more often than not to peripheral sites of the global metropolis. In Californian communities in downtown and the east side of Los Angeles, the Mission in San Francisco, and Barrio Logan in San Diego, however, residents rejected this process of involuntary movement, instead arguing for the value of historically rich, rooted communities. In what appeared to be a wave of anti-global activism beginning in the 1980s, residents worked to regain control over their local communities through a variety of strategies including the deliberate deployment of local culture and arts, and the increasingly savvy use of media and public relations. With these tools, anti-gentrifiers asserted ownership without property titles, housing rights without mortgages, and community buy-in without cash deposits. Anti-gentrification movements thus constituted a direct challenge to the workings of the global city while also feeding into a global movement to restore political power to the grassroots.[more]
GUHP profile, Author website
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"Oil Spaces: The Global Petroleumscape in the Rotterdam/The Hague Area" in
Journal of Urban History
by Carola Hein, Architecture,
Delft University of Technology (Netherlands)
February, 2018
As Middle Eastern cities weather the second decade of the twenty-first century, they face a number of challenges to their economic resilience, competitiveness, and internal stability. In this uniquely tense realm for the urban public, an understanding of the dynamics of decision-making processes, citizen power, and the rule of law is critical to the direction of policy in the future. In Order and Disorder, Luna Khirfan weaves a cross-national comparison of Amman and Cairo that dissects the many layers and complexities of urban governance. Through case studies on a diverse array of development projects and their associated challenges, the contributors demonstrate how three actors - the state, the market, and civil society - interact with each other within the same urban political space. [Full Text]
GUHP profile, Author website
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Podcast: GUH Blog Editor Michael Goebel (Freie Universität, Berlin) Speaks About His Work
Historias 6, podcast of SECOLAS, the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies, April 9, 2018
How do nationalist ideas emerge, evolve, and spread? How do urban spaces and the migration of people factor in? Dr. Michael Goebel joins SECOLAS podcaster Steven Hyland to discuss the arc of his research, ranging from nationalism in twentieth-century Argentina, to anti-imperialist activism in interwar Paris, to comparing urban inequality in specific global port cities between 1850 and 1950. He also comments on his interest in putting into dialogue discrete fields of history, the benefits of this engagement, and the impetus for co-creating the Global Urban History Project.[Full podcast]
GUHP profile, Speaker website
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Centre for Urban History at Leicester
The Centre for Urban History (founded 1985), which is cosponsoring the conference “The Pursuit of Global Urban History” in July 2019 with GUHP, is a unique institution for the study of towns and cities. We see urban history as a meeting place where different disciplines come together to examine the city as a complex physical and social system in historical perspective. We share a dual perspective explaining how cities have evolved through time while promoting understanding of the historic environment today. The present focus of the Centre’s work is the urban history of Europe and Asia since 1700, encompassing local, national and international dimensions of the urban past. Our knowledge and expertise have a global as well as a local reach and we are strongly responsive to new areas of research. We aim to influence both scholarship and policy-making at the highest levels and to contribute to the development of cities in the future. Knowledge of the urban past generates knowledge for the present which has numerous applications in the areas of urban policy, heritage, sustainability and regeneration. Thus we not only promote excellence in teaching and research but seek to provide training, expertise and advice for future and current practitioners. Current staff research focuses upon the urban history of Britain, Ireland, Egypt, India and China from 1700 to 2000 and addresses the following themes: environmental urban history, concepts of urban heritage from 1700, colonial urban history, urban governance, oral history, the production of urban history from the eighteenth century, and the history of urban planning, housing and the built environment since 1750. [more]
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