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.
COMPAS Seminar Series Michaelmas Term 2024
Theme: Perspectives of Place
Thursdays of Weeks 1-5 and 7-8 at 3.30pm in Kellogg College
