Intersectionality and the City

Lucie Bernroider, Dr., is an anthropologist at the Collaborative Research Center “Re-Figuration of Spaces” at Technische Universität Berlin. Her research interests include space, gender and class, neoliberal urban development, and the anthropology of violence, with a regional focus on South Asia. She holds a doctorate from the University of Heidelberg and has been a visiting scholar at the Delhi School of Planning and Architecture.Anthony Miro Born, PhD, is a sociologist and geographer with a particular interest in social inequality. Born’s research focuses on the intersections of urban inequality and social class from multiple perspectives. He is currently an ESRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science.Christy Kulz, PhD, is a guest professor of sociology at Technische Universität Berlin. Her research interests focus on cultural sociology, with particular attention to how intersectional inequalities are made through everyday practices in urban space. Her publications include the research monograph Factories for Learning (2017) and the edited collection Inside the English Education Lab (2022).Sung Un Gang, Dr., is a scholar of media and cultural studies at the Institute of Architecture, Technische Universität Berlin. As a research associate at the Collaborative Research Center “Re-Figuration of Spaces,” he investigates the everyday spaces and digital communication practices of queer inhabitants in Seoul, South Korea. His main research areas include queer and intersectional feminism, urban culture and space, and postcolonial historiography.

• 1. Introduction: Exploring urban violence and inequality from intersectional perspectivesPart 1: Conceptual terrains2. Intersectionality: Gendering and racializing urban spaces3. Arriving/being stopped: Six fatal shots and the sociology of place4. Only a researcher’s struggle? Reconceiving the ethnographic field as a relational space5. Exploring urban spaces of socio-environmental entanglement in Lagos: A collaboration between a researcher and a visual artist6. Urban violence, the state, and intersectionality: A conversation with Javier AuyeroPart 2: The social life of urban violence7. “Half bread is better than none”: Surviving in the Accra airport city8. Negotiating everyday symbolic violence: Young Londoners imagining their futures from a deprived area9. Escaping territories of terror: Protective strategies against intersectional violence at checkpoints10. Young, female, disadvantaged: How parental guidance and societal gender stereotypes shape girls’ and young women’s spatial knowledge11. 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 analysis13. Kreuzberg is a construction site: A grounded theory in picturesPart 3: Challenging urban violence14. Intersectional geographies in the urban grid: (B)ordering technologies and migrant agency and resistance15. The making of Keung To Bay: Fandom, urban space and affective alliance in Hong Kong16. Risky migrants and citizens in need of protection: The transformation of safety on the conjuncture of pandemic and protest17. Struggles in search of a ground: Protests after lockdown