Word on the Street

List of Illustrations

1. Word: An Introduction

Elisha Foust

I. SIGNS & COUNTERSIGNS

1. Signscapes and Minority Languages: Language Conflict on the Street

Guy Puzey

3 The Subversive Poetics of a Marginalized Discourse and Culture

E. Dimitris Kitis

4 SkateSpeak: An Interview with Iain Borden

Elisha Foust

II. CROSSING THE STREET

1. Recycling the City Streets: Walking, Garbage and Cartoneros

James Scorer

6 Walking the Streets: Cityscapes and Subjectscapes in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna

Anne Flannery

7 Fragmenting the Street: Flâneur Aesthetics in Twentieth-Century Photography

Susanna C. Ott

8 Desiring Urbanism

Stuart Kendall

III. STREET LEVEL

9 From ‘Cultural Factor’ to Propaganda Instrument: The Shop Window in German Cultural History 1907-33

Nina Schleif

10 Gendered Contestations: An Analysis of Street Harassment in Cairo

Nadia Ilahi

11 When the Street became Theatre: Heinrich Heine’s Art of Spectatorship in Juste-Milieu Paris

Lara Elder

12 Black Urbanism: An Interview with John Oduroe

Sophie Fuggle

IV. WORD UP

13 Escape from the Street: Language, Rock-and-Roll and Subversive Youth Space in Late-Socialist Lviv

William Risch

14 Street for Sale: Signs, Space, Discourse

Sophie Fuggle

15 ‘Miking’ the New German Street

Patricia Anne Simpson

Notes on Contributors

Bibliography

Paperback: 9780854572298 / 308 pages / 229mm x 152mm

Elisha Foust (Editor)

Sophie Fuggle (Editor)

Subject: Languages, Cultures and Societies

BISAC codes: LIT004130

Thema codes: DSB

Keywords: Cartoneros, Marginalised communities, Minority Languages, Street protests, gender, urbanism