Global Coventry
Migration, Diaspora and Place-Making
Will be published approx. on 18. February 2027
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-1-350-51999-2 (ISBN)
Description
This exciting collection of interdisciplinary essays studies the cultural history of Coventry's global populations.
Coventry has long been a place where diverse cultures mix. Attracting workers, traders and artisans, as well as migrants, refugees and students, the city is home to an incredible range of global and local communities and yet, until now, its place in the history of English cities, urban studies, and British social history has been obscure. Global Coventry: Migration, Diaspora and Place-Making offers an insightful and novel collection of essays by historians, sociologists, geographers and community-based scholars to make the case for Coventry's significance across these disciplines.
Focusing in particular on Coventry's Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities, Global Coventry contributes to histories of place-making by foregrounding race, gender, class and sexuality as essential to our understanding of the concept. The collection demonstrates how global flows of goods and people brought about major transformation to the city's landscape at the same time as illustrating how social and racialised minorities navigated their marginalisation within local, national and global structures.
Across thirteen chapters, Global Coventry provides a wide-ranging analysis of the historical and social trajectories which brought communities from all over the world to the city and reveals how these communities organised. The contributions explore topics like the hidden histories of Coventry's South Asian community, a pioneering 1970s community development project, the arrival of Chinese migrants to the city, local oral history archives, and the presence of queer refugees in the city.
If you are interested in urban studies, histories of place-making and the cultural significance of diasporic groups in modern British history, Global Coventry is essential reading.
Coventry has long been a place where diverse cultures mix. Attracting workers, traders and artisans, as well as migrants, refugees and students, the city is home to an incredible range of global and local communities and yet, until now, its place in the history of English cities, urban studies, and British social history has been obscure. Global Coventry: Migration, Diaspora and Place-Making offers an insightful and novel collection of essays by historians, sociologists, geographers and community-based scholars to make the case for Coventry's significance across these disciplines.
Focusing in particular on Coventry's Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities, Global Coventry contributes to histories of place-making by foregrounding race, gender, class and sexuality as essential to our understanding of the concept. The collection demonstrates how global flows of goods and people brought about major transformation to the city's landscape at the same time as illustrating how social and racialised minorities navigated their marginalisation within local, national and global structures.
Across thirteen chapters, Global Coventry provides a wide-ranging analysis of the historical and social trajectories which brought communities from all over the world to the city and reveals how these communities organised. The contributions explore topics like the hidden histories of Coventry's South Asian community, a pioneering 1970s community development project, the arrival of Chinese migrants to the city, local oral history archives, and the presence of queer refugees in the city.
If you are interested in urban studies, histories of place-making and the cultural significance of diasporic groups in modern British history, Global Coventry is essential reading.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Laminated cover
Illustrations
20 bw illus
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
366 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-350-51999-2 (9781350519992)
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Persons
Anne Gerritsen is Professor of History at the University of Warwick, UK, and Chair of Asian Art at University of Leiden, Netherlands. At Warwick, she co-directs the Global History and Culture Centre.
Aya Nassar is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick.
Pippa Virdee is Professor of Modern South Asian History at De Montford University, UK.
Somak Biswas is a Wellcome Trust Postdoctoral Fellow in the Faculty of History at the University of Cambridge and Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Warwick.
Aya Nassar is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick.
Pippa Virdee is Professor of Modern South Asian History at De Montford University, UK.
Somak Biswas is a Wellcome Trust Postdoctoral Fellow in the Faculty of History at the University of Cambridge and Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Warwick.
Content
1. Introduction, Dr Somak Biswas (University of Cambridge, UK), Professor Anne Gerritsen (University of Warwick, UK), Dr Aya Nassar (University of Warwick, UK), Professor Pippa Virdee (DeMontfort University, UK)
Part I: New Ways of Seeing the City
2. Since when are we global? Material traces of Coventry's global past', Professor Anne Gerritsen (Professor of History, University of Warwick, UK)
3. Local Ethnic Diversity and Unemployment in Coventry, Dr Matteo Mazzamurro (Postdoctoral Researcher, Aarhus University, Denmark)
4. 'Visual Vocabularies': Showing the Hidden Histories of South Asians in Coventry, Professor Pippa Virdee (De Montfort University, UK)
Part II: Interventions and Encounters in the City
5. The ONE MILE WALK: Dust, Holes, Frictions, and Reconciliation, Dr Aya Nassar (Durham University) and Professor Nirmal Puwar (Goldsmiths, University of London)
6. The Multiplicitous City: Race, Class, Gender and Space, Dr Tana Forrest (University of Edinburgh, UK)
7. Coventry Community Development Project: Race and Poverty in 1970s Hillfields, Dr Ben Kyneswood (Coventry University, UK)
8. Radioactive Rotis and Punjabi Women, Dr Shahnaz Akhter (University of Warwick, UK)
Part IV: Place-making in the City
9. 'Kin Wa': The Chinese Meeting Place in Coventry, 1960s-80s, Professor Pippa Virdee (De Montfort University, UK)
10. Queer Refugees in Coventry, Dr Somak Biswas (University of Cambridge, UK)
11. 'For me, Here Life is Perfect': Voices from the Lockdown Echoed by a Research-Art Response', Dr Reem Doukmak (University of Warwick, UK)
12. 'Kalmaan Coventry Diyaaan': The Quills of Coventry; Vernacular Writing in the City, Professor Virinder S. Kalra (University of Warwick, UK)
Part I: New Ways of Seeing the City
2. Since when are we global? Material traces of Coventry's global past', Professor Anne Gerritsen (Professor of History, University of Warwick, UK)
3. Local Ethnic Diversity and Unemployment in Coventry, Dr Matteo Mazzamurro (Postdoctoral Researcher, Aarhus University, Denmark)
4. 'Visual Vocabularies': Showing the Hidden Histories of South Asians in Coventry, Professor Pippa Virdee (De Montfort University, UK)
Part II: Interventions and Encounters in the City
5. The ONE MILE WALK: Dust, Holes, Frictions, and Reconciliation, Dr Aya Nassar (Durham University) and Professor Nirmal Puwar (Goldsmiths, University of London)
6. The Multiplicitous City: Race, Class, Gender and Space, Dr Tana Forrest (University of Edinburgh, UK)
7. Coventry Community Development Project: Race and Poverty in 1970s Hillfields, Dr Ben Kyneswood (Coventry University, UK)
8. Radioactive Rotis and Punjabi Women, Dr Shahnaz Akhter (University of Warwick, UK)
Part IV: Place-making in the City
9. 'Kin Wa': The Chinese Meeting Place in Coventry, 1960s-80s, Professor Pippa Virdee (De Montfort University, UK)
10. Queer Refugees in Coventry, Dr Somak Biswas (University of Cambridge, UK)
11. 'For me, Here Life is Perfect': Voices from the Lockdown Echoed by a Research-Art Response', Dr Reem Doukmak (University of Warwick, UK)
12. 'Kalmaan Coventry Diyaaan': The Quills of Coventry; Vernacular Writing in the City, Professor Virinder S. Kalra (University of Warwick, UK)