1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990006489890403321

Autore

Ngwa, Collins Esau Njinta

Titolo

The Rhodesian imperial genesis, colonial recalcitrance and sanctions experiment / Collins Esau Njinta' Ngwa

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ann Arbor : University Microfilms Int., 1973

Descrizione fisica

VI, 173 p. ; 20 cm

Disciplina

320.96891

Locazione

FSPBC

Collocazione

XIV E 2435

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Dissertazione accademica mcrf.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910725065303321

Autore

Hewison Robert

Titolo

Passport to Peckham : Culture and Creativity in a London Village

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Goldsmiths, University London, , 2022

©2022

ISBN

1-913380-05-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (248 pages)

Collana

Spatial Politics

Disciplina

942.164

Soggetti

City and town life - England - London - History

City and town life

Manners and customs

History

London (England) History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- A Note on the Sources -- 1 Now, 2022 -- Sources -- 2 Is There Life In Peckham? 1087-1960 -- Sources -- 3 Only Fools and Housing, 1900-1990 -- Sources -- 4 Only Artists: Peckham Painters (and Others), 1891-2000 -- Sources -- 5 "We Are Trying To Build a Bit of Ordinary London": Politics and Planning, 1965-2000 -- Sources -- 6 An Elective Montmartre: Renewal, 1990-2010 -- Sources -- 7 "Incidental Person": John Latham and Flat Time House, 1985-2021 -- Sources -- 8 Bold Tendencies: Culture and Creativity, 2000-2021 -- Sources -- 9 On Road: Culture and Resistance, 1948-2021 -- Sources -- 10 Next: The Space of Possibilities, 2022- -- Sources -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

"Is there life in Peckham?" asks a pop song of the 1980s. Peckham has been treated as a joke and a place to be avoided. It has been celebrated in television comedies, and denigrated for its levels of crime. It is a center for the arts and the creative industries, yet it also suffers from social deprivation and racial tension. Passport to Peckham is a guide to an unofficial part of London-social and cultural history written from the ground up. In this entertaining and engaging account, Hewison invites readers to explore Peckham's streets and presents the portrait of a community experiencing the stresses of modern living. Old and new residents rub against each other as they try to adjust to the challenges created by urban regeneration and the more subtle process of gentrification. Artists have lived and worked in Peckham for more than a century, and now Caribbean and West African communities are adding their own flavors in terms of music, drama, poetry, and film. Focused on a few square miles, Passport to Peckham raises issues of urban policy, planning, culture, and creativity that have a far wider application. As London and other major cities recover from the COVID crisis, are there lessons in urban living to be learned from the pleasures and pains of Peckham? The answer from one of Britain's most distinguished cultural critics is an emphatic yes.