Tag Archives: Politics

Neoliberalism and the Structure of Settler Colonialism in a North American City

Posted on 8. December 2016 by Global Urban History

By John Munro, St. Mary’s University It was, on the face of it, an unremarkable event. In the spring of 1989, a single-room-occupancy hotel and beer parlor was torn down in North Vancouver, Canada, and a new condominium tower was … Continue reading →

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On the Khartoum Omnibus: Stories of Sudan’s Cosmopolitanism

Posted on 22. November 2016 by Global Urban History

By Raphael Cormack, University of Edinburgh In July 2005 a helicopter carrying John Garang, leader of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement and new vice-president of Sudan, crashed in Uganda. Garang and the 13 other passengers were all killed. The most … Continue reading →

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Subaltern Cultures of Nature in Industrial Chicago

Posted on 14. November 2016 by Global Urban History

By Colin Fisher, University of San Diego U.S. environmental and cultural historians and American Studies scholars have long explored privileged Anglo Americans’ desire to come into contact with nature. We know that in response to the perceived ills of urban … Continue reading →

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Plural Pasts in Southeast Asian Port Cities

Posted on 19. October 2016 by Global Urban History

By Su Lin Lewis, University of Bristol Conflict and division characterize the way we often think of race relations in the colonial era, but the social history of Asia’s most multi-ethnic cities gives us a different view. The colonial scholar … Continue reading →

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