Fresh perspectives on a relevant topic: the ways experiences of exile shape cities.
Migration has transformed urban spaces around the world as new residents form communities, neighborhoods, and art spaces, changing perceptions of these cityscapes among migrants and locals alike. Yet exile research rarely adopts an urban perspective. Urban Exile fills this gap, anthologizing research on exile, cities, and modernities with a focus on the first half of the twentieth century. Drawing on examples from a wide range of urban centers in both the Global North and South, contributors from various disciplines share novel approaches and research practices for investigating how exile and urbanity intertwine. Their work illuminates the challenges and benefits surrounding the nexus of exile and urban research, discussing mapping, oral history, queerness, photography, and more.
By selecting exile as a central category for methodological and theoretical investigations of urban culture, the book rethinks the application of this term in a transnational and historical context. Intersectional and international in its approach, Urban Exile collects transformative research on a pressing contemporary issue.
Edited by:
Burcu Dogramaci,
Ekaterina Aygun,
Mareike Hetschold,
Laura Karp Lugo,
Rachel Lee
Imprint: Intellect Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions:
Height: 244mm,
Width: 170mm,
ISBN: 9781789387674
ISBN 10: 1789387671
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 05 May 2023
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Encountering Urban Exile: Theories, Methods, Research Practices – 01 An Introduction Burcu Dogramaci, Ekaterina Aygün, Mareike Hetschold, Laura Karp Lugo, Rachel Lee and Helene Roth PART 1: SOURCING TRACES 21 Expulsion from Exile: Tracking the Presence and Absence of 22 German-speaking Dealers in Paris, 1910–1925 Maddalena Alvi Taming the Polyp: Address Books and their Impact on Wartime 32 Exile in London Julia Eichenberg Close Reading Istanbul: Through the Lens of Two Almanacs 45 by Russian-speaking Émigrés in the 1920s Ekaterina Aygün ‘Mobile Exile’ and Urban Musical Theatre in the 1930s 60 Nils Grosch Oral History in Exile Studies – Potentials and Limitations 72 Felicitas Söhner Movement – A Conversation with Artist Michaela Melián 84 Burcu Dogramaci PART 2: PRACTICING THE URBAN 95 An Exile’s Guide: Ernst Schaeffer’s Pictorial Bombay and 96 the Construction of Bombay’s Touristscape Margit Franz and Rachel Lee Photographic Practices in Cities of Exile: Camera Views on 120 Tel Aviv and New York Anna Sophia Messner and Helene Roth The Exilic Vision of a Once Fashionable Quarter: 140 Danila Vassilieff in Interwar Fitzroy Robert Pascoe and Chris McConville Queering Exile London: Dislocations, Hidden Histories and 146 Gendered Spaces Burcu Dogramaci PART 3: MAPPING/SPATIALIZING SITES 169 Theatre After the End of Theatre: Abandoned Theatres in Chile 170 Valentina Pino Reyes Redeveloping the Heritage of Migration: The Shanghai Jewish 182 Refugees Museum and Urban Transformation Xin Tong Mapping the Russian Diaspora in Shanghai 194 Katya Knyazeva Mapping Istanbul’s Pera District between Arrivals and Departures 206 Merve Köksal and Seza Sinanlar Uslu Russian Belgrade: In-between Alive and Dead 225 Marina Sorokina PART 4: SITUATING EXPERIENCE 239 Urban Exile: The Case of the Nazi Ghetto 240 Alexis Nouss Booked for Exile: Leo Steinberg’s Urban Passages and 250 Textual Homelands Louis Kaplan Between Europe and America: Metropolitan Exchanges in the 261 Context of International Antifascism Diana Wechsler Urban Exile: Bogotá in the First Half of the 20th Century 273 Claudia Cendales Paredes (Re)routing and (Re)rooting in Urban Exile: Exploring Villa 287 Ocampo in Buenos Aires and Jassim House in Bombay with Actor-Network-Theory Mareike Schwarz PART 5: PLACE-MAKING/BELONGING 311 From Hamburg to Cape Town: The Denizen Photography of 313 Else and Helmuth Hausmann Jessica Williams Stark Suzhou River and Garden Bridge: Reading Images of 327 Exile in Shanghai Mareike Hetschold The Territorial Dimension of Spanish Republican 342 Exile in the Cities of Argentina Federico Martín Vitelli Calle de López or Spain in Mexico 352 Valeria Sánchez Michel Reinhabiting the City as an Artistic Open Space: Urban 361 Imprints of Exile Artists in Buenos Aires and Marseille in the 20th Century Laura Karp Lugo and Marine Schütz Notes on the Contributors 377 Index 391
Burcu Dogramaci is a professor of 20th Century and Contemporary Art History at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich (LMU). In 2016 she was been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant and lead the research project “Relocating Modernism: Global Metropolises, Modern Art and Exile” (METROMOD). Ekaterina Aygun graduated from Istanbul Bilgi University with a master’s degree in History. She currently pursues her doctoral research project (LMU Munich) that deals with Russian-speaking émigré artists in Istanbul at the beginning of the 20th century. Mareike Hetschold studied art history, literature and Italian in Munich and Venice. She is a doctoral researcher with the ERC project “Relocating Modernism: Global Metropolises, Modern Art and Exile” (METROMOD) at the LMU in Munich. Laura Karp Lugo holds a PhD from Panthéon-Sorbonne University (2014), that has been awarded the Prize of the Musée d’Orsay. She is currently a Researcher and Assistant Professor at University of Lorraine (Nancy) and a researcher at the Ludwig-Maximilians Universität (Munich) in the ERC project “Relocating Modernism: Global Metropolises, Modern Art and Exile” (METROMOD). Rachel Lee is an Assistant Professor at the Chair of History of Architecture and Urban Planning, TU Delft and an Associated Researcher on the ERC project Relocating Modernism: Global Metropolises, Modern Art and Exile” (METROMOD). Helene Roth is Research Assistant in Art History at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) in Munich and researcher in the ERC project “Relocating Modernism: Global Metropolises, Modern Art and Exile” (METROMOD).
