Making Cities Socialist: Interview with Katherine Zubovich
Global Urban History
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2w ago
To mark the publication of new contributions to our Cambridge Elements in Global Urban History series, we will feature interviews with authors and share short excerpts from their work. Here, GUHP Blog associate editor Maytal Mark interviews Katherine Zubovich, the author of Making Cities Socialist. Katherine Zubovich is Associate Professor of History at the University at Buffalo, SUNY. She is a historian of Russia and the former Soviet Union. Her book, Moscow Monumental: Soviet Skyscrapers and Urban Life in Stalin’s Capital, explores the history of skyscraper building in the Soviet c ..read more
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The Modern City in Asia: Interview with Kristin Stapleton
Global Urban History
by Global Urban History
1y ago
To mark the publication of new contributions to our Cambridge Elements in Global Urban History series, we will feature interviews with authors and share short excerpts from their work. Here, series co-editor Tracy Neumann interviews Kristin Stapleton, the author of The Modern City in Asia. Kristin Stapleton is Professor of History at University of Buffalo and the author of several books and articles on Chinese history. An excerpt of The Modern City in Asia follows the interview. Tracy Neumann (TN): Your previous work has focused on China and Chinese cities, while your Element ranges more ..read more
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The Archive Box #6: The Sources of Our Urban Planet
Global Urban History
by Global Urban History
1y ago
By Carl H. Nightingale*, University of Buffalo The Archive Box is a series featuring global urban historians reflecting on their archival experience, and on the practical and theoretical challenges they faced while working with a variety of archives across the world. View of Nairobi from the Wind Farm on the Ngong Hills. This particular view of the Urban Planet from the Ngong Hills outside Nairobi is a wonderful piece of primary evidence encompassing the pre-urban past, the present day “Great Acceleration” of the urban, and the future potential of cities driven by energy more directly harveste ..read more
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Cities and News: Interview with Lila Caimari
Global Urban History
by Global Urban History
2y ago
To mark the publication of new contributions to our Cambridge Elements in Global Urban History series, we will feature interviews with authors and share short excerpts from their work. Here, series co-editor Michael Goebel interviews Lila Caimari, the author of our third Element, Cities and News (2022). Lila Caimari is is a full-time Researcher at Conicet in Buenos Aires. She has published extensively on the history of urban crime, the police, and the prison experience in Argentina. She is also the author of numerous articles and book chapters about the social and cultural history of modern Ar ..read more
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Real Estate and Global Urban History: Interview with Alexia Yates
Global Urban History
by Global Urban History
3y ago
To mark the publication of new contributions to our Cambridge Elements in Global Urban History series, we will feature interviews with authors and share short excerpts from their work. Here, series co-editor Joseph Ben Prestel interviews Alexia Yates, the author of our second Element, Real Estate and Global Urban History (2021). Alexia Yates is Senior Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Manchester and author of Selling Paris: Property and Commercial Culture in the Fin-de-siècle Capital (Harvard UP, 2015) as well as numerous articles. An excerpt of Real Estate and Global Urban Histo ..read more
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How Cities Matter: Interview with Richard Harris
Global Urban History
by Global Urban History
3y ago
To mark the publication of new contributions to our Cambridge Elements in Global Urban History series, we will feature interviews with authors and share short excerpts from their work. Here, series co-editor Tracy Neumann interviews Richard Harris, the author of our first Element, How Cities Matter (2021). Richard Harris is Professor Emeritus at McMaster University and the author of many books, articles, and essays on urban and suburban development. An excerpt of How Cities Matters follows the interview. Tracy Neumann (TN): I think we have to open with the obvious question: How d ..read more
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The Archive Box #5: Chasing Archives in Ottoman Tunis
Global Urban History
by Global Urban History
3y ago
By Youssef Ben Ismail, Harvard University The Archive Box is a series featuring global urban historians reflecting on their archival experience, and on the practical and theoretical challenges they faced while working with a variety of archives in different cities across the world. What happens to the sovereign status of a polity when it is the object of a global imperial rivalry, and how do the archives of its capital city tell this story? From the French colonial heritage of the Tunisian National Archives to the multilingual informal correspondences of Tunisians across the Ottoman Mediterr ..read more
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The Global, the Urban, and the Revolution in 1970s Iran
Global Urban History
by Global Urban History
3y ago
By Rasmus Christian Elling, University of Copenhagen. The Iranian Revolution, most historians argue, was an urban phenomenon in which mass demonstrations in major cities led to the spectacular downfall of the shah in 1979. In addition to Ayatollah Khomeini’s politicized Shiite-Islamic discourse, it is further argued, popular revolutionary resolve was prefigured specifically by Marxist urban guerrillas. But what was urban about these guerrillas? In trying to answer this question, I recently contributed to a new edited volume on Global 1979: Geographies and Histories of the Iranian Revolution. I ..read more
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The Archive Box #4: The Worlds of the Paris Commune
Global Urban History
by Global Urban History
3y ago
By Quentin Deluermoz*, University of Paris The Archive Box is a series featuring global urban historians reflecting on their archival experience, and on the practical and theoretical challenges they faced while working with a variety of archives in different cities across the world. 150 years on, the Paris Commune continues to exercise a magnetic pull over the representation of revolutionary movements. From the Parisian barricades to the Kabyle insurrection that same year, Quentin Deluermoz takes us through a discovery of the local and global archives of this momentous event, and argues in f ..read more
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The Archive Box #3: Building Colonial Capitalism in Bombay
Global Urban History
by Global Urban History
3y ago
By Sheetal Chhabria*, Connecticut College The Archive Box is a series featuring global urban historians reflecting on their archival experience, and on the practical and theoretical challenges they faced while working with a variety of archives in different cities across the world. From the colonial genealogy of Bombay’s persistent “slum problem” recounted in her award-winning book, self-described “archive nerd” Sheetal Chhabria invites us to read archives critically, helps us identify the spatial and historical tropes associated with the South Asian city and countryside, and warns us agains ..read more
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