Intersectionality and the City

Exploring Violence and Inequality in Urban Space

Lucie Benroider, Anthony Miro Born, Christy Kulz, Sung Un Gang, Lucie Bernroider

• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• Year: 2025
• eBook ISBN: 9781040359976
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Urban Sociology
• Index: Social Sciences

This book combines intersectional perspectives and urban research to demonstrate the importance of intersectionality as a concept that can complement "refigurational" understandings of social change as the outcome of spatial conflicts. Showing how intersectionality enables us to grasp the intersecting categories of inequality in these spatial tensions, it remains attentive to the role of social difference and power in these processes, as well as to modes of normativity and resistance. With case studies gathered from a range of national contexts, it provides rich empirical insights into the relationship between urban spatialities, power dynamics, and embodied social inequalities, addressing the manner in which different conflicts are made manifest intersectionally in and through situated urban spaces. The chapters consider issues such as the gendering and racialization of urban spaces; urban marginality and environmental pressures; intersectional power dynamics in research; heteronormative and cisgender- centric structures in the city; aging in the city; young people, control, and insecurity; police violence; migrant emplacement and activism; racialized gentrification and commoning, and pandemic safety and protest, to explore the uneven outcomes of spatial planning and urban development. As such, it draws attention to the interplay of various forces in the production of exclusion and injustice and will therefore appeal to scholars of sociology, geography, and urban studies with interests in inequality, social change, and resistance to exclusion.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title Page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Contributors
• Acknowledgments
• 1 Introduction: Exploring urban violence and inequality from intersectional perspectives
• Part I Conceptual terrains
• 2 Intersectionality: Gendering and racializing urban spaces
• 3 Arriving/being stopped: Six fatal shots and the sociology of place
• 4 Only a researcher’s struggle?: Reconceiving the ethnographic field as a relational space
• 5 Exploring urban spaces of socio-environmental entanglement in Lagos: A collaboration between a researcher and a visual artist
• 6 Urban violence, the state, and intersectionality: A conversation with Javier Auyero
• Part II The social life of urban violence
• 7 “Half bread is better than none”: Surviving in the Accra Airport City
• 8 Negotiating everyday symbolic violence: Young Londoners imagining their futures from a deprived area
• 9 Escaping territories of terror: Protective strategies against intersectional violence at checkpoints
• 10 Young, female, disadvantaged: How parental guidance and societal gender stereotypes shape girls’ and young women’s spatial knowledge
• 11 Aging and intersectionality in the city: A critique of spaces of thrownapartness in Berlin (Germany)
• 12 Affective violence of the gaze in gender-segregated restrooms: An intersectional analysis
• 13 Kreuzberg is a construction site: A grounded theory in pictures
• Part III Challenging urban violence
• 14 Intersectional geographies in the urban grid: (B)ordering technologies and migrant agency and resistance
• 15 The making of Keung To Bay: Fandom, urban space and affective alliance in Hong Kong
• 16 Risky migrants and citizens in need of protection: The transformation of safety on the conjuncture of pandemic and protest1
• 17 Struggles in search of a ground: Protests after lockdown
• Index