Afterword
ZOLTÁN KÉKESI
After one year of writing about London and Memory, the series ‘Other Cities: London Memoryscape’ is coming to end with a look back by the series’s editor.
Esporas
VERÓNICA POSADA ÁLVAREZ
Una reflexión poética sobre la migración y la diáspora latinoamericana en Londres, que entrelaza el viaje personal, los sueños y el trabajo de archivo de la autora.
Spores
VERÓNICA POSADA ÁLVAREZ
A poetic reflection on migration and the Latin American diaspora in London that interweaves the author’s personal journey, dreams, and archival work.
Concrete Memories
SABA ZAVAREI
What does exile do to your memories of home? And what happens to these memories when your home is attacked? Do they persist or do they turn into rubble?
An Important yet Undervalued Vernacular
KELECHI ANUCHA
What would it mean to measure the environmental crisis and its impacts qualitatively, taking into account the experience of breathing?
Rivering Vernaculars
REBECCA DRAKE
What is a river if not ‘just’ a body of water? This poetic exploration of rivers and ‘rivering’ suggests that we might only understand
Koutarcano
JOHN SABAPATHY
An experimental piece of writing that traces the histories of Crawford Lake, Ontario which became a site of unique significance for Canada and could have been for the Anthropocene.
Introduction
ABIGAIL BLEACH, CYDNEY PHILLIP
The former IAS Postdoctoral Fellows introduce their guest-edited series on Anthropocene Vernaculars which is based on their year-long research at the Institute.
The Roses of Versailles: Embodied Politics in Jacques Demy’s Lady Oscar
ALESSANDRA ALOISI
A fascinating critique of how Lady Oscar is portrayed in Jacques Demy’s film and how it has reimagined gender, class, and power.
The Roses of Versailles: Queer and Feminist Paladin, and Enemy of the Right
FRANCES CLEMENTE
Lady Oscar has moved from a feminist queer TV icon to become a lively character at the heart of contemporary Italian debates. Can fictional characters influence politics?
The Roses of Versailles: Lady Oscar – Shōjo Warrior at the Crossroads of S Relationships and Queer Desire
CHRISTINA PARTE
Cross-dressing, androgynous looking youth are a frequent feature in shōjo manga – manga for girls. But is it limited to the world of shōjo?
The Roses of Versailles: Introduction
PATRICK BRAY
This new three-part series approaches Lady Oscar, the main protagonist in Riyoko Ikeda’s manga The Rose of Versailles, from different perspectives: the shojo manga, Italian politics and the filmic version.
Storied Walks and Deep Mapping
ALICE-ANNE PSALTIS
An invitation to excavate a place and its memories without digging, deep mapping as a research practice means observing, noticing and connecting with a place.
Of Media, Multiplicities and Monsters
UTA STAIGER
What is the city and how do we map it? Its multiplicities, polyphony and chaos? A critical and playful attempt to map an answer to these questions.
Echoes
ZOLTÁN KÉKESI, VIRGINIA VECCHIOLI
A personal literary essay about a research trip to Buenos Aires and Misiones, and the astonishing connections to Mariana Enriquez’s novel Our Share of Night.
A Delhi Hip-Hop Odyssey
SAROJINI SAPRU
What does it mean if your fieldwork takes place in the comfort of your hometown and to work on a subject like music that is oblivious to ‘professional’ and ‘private’ spheres?