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.

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