Full Description
Explores cities of exile from different perspectives and presents different methods and sources for exile and urban studies. The essays are written by internationally recognized scholars, and contain a wide range of themes including mapping, oral history, queerness, photography. This book will make a significant contribution to the theory and methodology of research on historical exile, cities and modernities, as well as present multidisciplinary exile research from an urban perspective.
With a blend of case studies, and theoretical approaches, it interweaves histories of modernism and exile in different urban environments and focuses on historical dislocations in the first half of the twentieth century, when artistic and urban movements constituted themselves in global exchange. Although this book takes a historical perspective, it is written with an awareness of current flight movements and will make a significant contribution to the theory and methodology of research on exile.
The knowledge of previous historical exile experiences is important for the understanding of contemporary flight movements: after all, these are not singular phenomena. For migration movements in the first half of the 20th century and for those of today, it is equally possible to speak of urban centres of attraction for refugees: Today, Berlin is a European metropolis of exile; in the 1930s and 1940s, Paris, Prague, London, New York, Istanbul and Shanghai were destinations for refugees.
With contributions from Maddalena Alvi, Ekaterina Aygün, Claudia Cendales Paredes, Julia Eichenberg, Margit Franz, Nils Grosch, Mareike Hetschold, Louis Kaplan, Laura Karp Lugo, Katya Knyazeva, Merve Köksal, Rachel Lee, Chris McConville, Anna Messner, Alexis Nuselovici, Robert Pascoe, Valentina Pino Reyes, Helene Roth, Valeria Sánchez Michel, Marine Schütz, Seza Sinanlar Uslu, Felicitas Söhner, Mareike Schwarz, Marina Sorokina, Xin Tong, Diana Wechsler, Jessica Williams Stark and Federico Vitelli.
Contents
Encountering Urban Exile: Theories, Methods, Research Practices - 01
An Introduction
Burcu Dogramaci, Ekaterina Aygün, Mareike
Hetschold, Laura Karp Lugo, Rachel Lee and Helene Roth
PART 1: SOURCING TRACES 21
Expulsion from Exile: Tracking the Presence and Absence of 22
German-speaking Dealers in Paris, 1910-1925
Maddalena Alvi
Taming the Polyp: Address Books and their Impact on Wartime 32
Exile in London
Julia Eichenberg
Close Reading Istanbul: Through the Lens of Two Almanacs 45
by Russian-speaking Émigrés in the 1920s
Ekaterina Aygün
'Mobile Exile' and Urban Musical Theatre in the 1930s 60
Nils Grosch
Oral History in Exile Studies - Potentials and Limitations 72
Felicitas Söhner
Movement - A Conversation with Artist Michaela Melián 84
Burcu Dogramaci
PART 2: PRACTICING THE URBAN 95
An Exile's Guide: Ernst Schaeffer's Pictorial Bombay and 96
the Construction of Bombay's Touristscape
Margit Franz and Rachel Lee
Photographic Practices in Cities of Exile: Camera Views on 120
Tel Aviv and New York
Anna Sophia Messner and Helene Roth
The Exilic Vision of a Once Fashionable Quarter: 140
Danila Vassilieff in Interwar Fitzroy
Robert Pascoe and Chris McConville
Queering Exile London: Dislocations, Hidden Histories and 146
Gendered Spaces
Burcu Dogramaci
PART 3: MAPPING/SPATIALIZING SITES 169
Theatre After the End of Theatre: Abandoned Theatres in Chile 170
Valentina Pino Reyes
Redeveloping the Heritage of Migration: The Shanghai Jewish 182
Refugees Museum and Urban Transformation
Xin Tong
Mapping the Russian Diaspora in Shanghai 194
Katya Knyazeva
Mapping Istanbul's Pera District between Arrivals and Departures 206
Merve Köksal and Seza Sinanlar Uslu
Russian Belgrade: In-between Alive and Dead 225
Marina Sorokina
PART 4: SITUATING EXPERIENCE 239
Urban Exile: The Case of the Nazi Ghetto 240
Alexis Nouss
Booked for Exile: Leo Steinberg's Urban Passages and 250
Textual Homelands
Louis Kaplan
Between Europe and America: Metropolitan Exchanges in the 261
Context of International Antifascism
Diana Wechsler
Urban Exile: Bogotá in the First Half of the 20th Century 273
Claudia Cendales Paredes
(Re)routing and (Re)rooting in Urban Exile: Exploring Villa 287
Ocampo in Buenos Aires and Jassim House in Bombay with
Actor-Network-Theory
Mareike Schwarz
PART 5: PLACE-MAKING/BELONGING 311
From Hamburg to Cape Town: The Denizen Photography of 313
Else and Helmuth Hausmann
Jessica Williams Stark
Suzhou River and Garden Bridge: Reading Images of 327
Exile in Shanghai
Mareike Hetschold
The Territorial Dimension of Spanish Republican 342
Exile in the Cities of Argentina
Federico Martín Vitelli
Calle de López or Spain in Mexico 352
Valeria Sánchez Michel
Reinhabiting the City as an Artistic Open Space: Urban 361
Imprints of Exile Artists in Buenos Aires and Marseille in
the 20th Century
Laura Karp Lugo and Marine Schütz
Notes on the Contributors 377
Index 391
