Resistance and the city edited by Christoph Ehland Pascal Fischer ; volume 2: Negotiating urban identities: race class and gender The contributions collected in the second volume of Resistance and the City are devoted to the three markers of identity that cultural studies has recognised as paramount for our understanding of difference inequality and solidarity in modern societies: race class and gender. These categories tightly linked to the mechanics of power domination and subordination have often played an eminent role in contemporary struggles and clashes in urban space. The confluence of people from diverse ethnic social and sexual backgrounds in the city has not only raised their awareness of a variety of life concepts and motivated them to negotiate their own positions but has also encouraged them to develop strategies of resistance against patterns of social and spatial exclusion. Contributors: Oliver von Knebel Doeberitz Barbara Korte Anna Lienen Gill Plain Frank Erik Pointner Katrin Röder Ingrid von Rosenberg Mark Schmitt Ralf Schneider Christoph Singer Sabine Smith Merle Tönnies Ger Zielinski Introduction 1 Christoph Ehland and Pascal Fischer Introduction 11 Christoph Ehland and Pascal Fischer Part 1. Race and Ethnicity 1 Black Citizens British Spaces. Struggles in the 1970s and 1980s and Cinematic Representations Ingrid von Rosenberg 2 Resisting Topographies: Immigration Space and the City in Contemporary British Film Ralf Schneider 3 Heterotopias as Spaces of Resistance in Salman Rushdies Midnights Children (1981) Katrin Roder 4 Changing Uses of the City in Contemporary Black British Novels Merle Tonnies and Anna Lienen Part 2. Social Class. 5 Poor is Cool : The Working Classes as Myth in Pulps Common People Christoph Singer 6 Chavs: The Clash of Social Classes in Urban Britain Frank Erik Pointner 7 The Other Dublin: Homelessness Abject Comedy and Challenges to the Urban Order in Lenny Abrahamsons Adam & Paul (2004) Mark Schmitt 8 In the Ghetto: Inequality Riots and Resistance in London Based Science Fiction of the Twenty First Century Barbara Korte Part 3. Gender and Sexuality. 9 Lost to the Streets: Violence Space and Gender in Urban Crime Fiction Gill Plain 10 The Urban Residential Balcony as Interstitial Site Sabine H. Smith 11 Muslims against Gays Faith Sexuality Resistance and Londons East End Oliver von Knebel Doeberitz 12 Scenic Subversions On Bruce LaBruces Re queering of That Cold Day in the Park Ger Zielinski.