Linking multiscalar contestations over place in Peterborough, Brighton and Yiddishland
This presentation takes off from where my last book, Stories from a Migrant City (MUP, 2020), based on ten years of research in Brexit-era Peterborough, ended: multiscalar contestations over the place between resurgent racial nationalism and a non-elite cosmopolitanism. The story now moves to Brighton and Hove, a much-desired, if often unaffordable, coastal city, where progressive politics and a liberal self-image rub up against the legacies of British colonialism. Among the latter, contestations over Zionism, Israel and Palestine will be explored, first within Brighton and Hove and then through virtual and actual travels beyond the city to the non-territorial place known as Yiddishland.
Date:
24 October 2024, 15:30 (Thursday, 2nd week, Michaelmas 2024)
Venue:
Kellogg College, 62 Banbury Road OX2 6PN
Venue Details:
The Hub (wheelchair accessible)
Speaker:
Ben Rogaly (University of Sussex)
Organising department:
Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS)
Organiser:
Dace Dzenovska (University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address:
info@compas.ox.ac.uk
Part of:
Perspectives of Place
Booking required?:
Not required
Booking url:
https://www.compas.ox.ac.uk/event/perspectives-of-place
Cost:
Free
Audience:
Public
Editor:
Nathan Grassi
