"Seven million Londoners, one London": National and urban ideas of community in the aftermath of the 7 July 2005 bombings in London

Closs Stephens, A.

doi:10.1177/030437540703200201

All Outputs (7)

Reading Angharad Closs Stephens's The Persistence of Nationalism. From imagined communities to urban encounters. (2014)
Journal Article
Antonsich, M., Fortier, A., Darling, J., Wood, N., & Closs Stephens, A. (2014). Reading Angharad Closs Stephens's The Persistence of Nationalism. From imagined communities to urban encounters. Political Geography, 40, 56-63. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2014.02.005

Welsh Keywords: Cymuned (2012)
Journal Article
Closs Stephens, A. (2012). Welsh Keywords: Cymuned. Planet, 208, 49-56

Politics through a web: citizenship and community unbound (2012)
Journal Article
Closs Stephens, A., & Squire, V. (2012). Politics through a web: citizenship and community unbound. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 30(3), 551-567. https://doi.org/10.1068/d8511

What happens to citizenship when the nation and the state are no longer assumed to be the inevitable starting points from which politics is defined? This paper considers how a refusal of the nation as political community and a questioning of the stat... Read More about Politics through a web: citizenship and community unbound.

Beyond Imaginary Geographies? Critique, Co-optation and Imagination in the Aftermath of the War on Terror (2011)
Journal Article
Closs Stephens, A. (2011). Beyond Imaginary Geographies? Critique, Co-optation and Imagination in the Aftermath of the War on Terror. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 29(2), 254-267. https://doi.org/10.1068/d6109

This paper considers the question of what it might mean to resist the ‘imaginative geographies’ of the War on Terror through a reading of the bestselling novel The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid. Reading this novel against the claim that we... Read More about Beyond Imaginary Geographies? Critique, Co-optation and Imagination in the Aftermath of the War on Terror.

Citizenship without community: time, design and the city (2010)
Journal Article
Closs Stephens, A. (2010). Citizenship without community: time, design and the city. Citizenship Studies, 14(1), 31-46. https://doi.org/10.1080/13621020903466282

This article engages with the concept of design as a way of re-working the standard understanding of citizenship as what takes place within a political community. In doing so, the paper draws on recent attempts to rethink citizenship as ‘acts’ rather... Read More about Citizenship without community: time, design and the city.

Weighing heavily in-between (2009)
Journal Article
Closs Stephens, A. (2009). Weighing heavily in-between. Review of International Studies, 35(4), 866-868. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0260210509990246

Responses to images by Angus Boulton.

"Seven million Londoners, one London": National and urban ideas of community in the aftermath of the 7 July 2005 bombings in London (2007)
Journal Article
Closs Stephens, A. (2007). "Seven million Londoners, one London": National and urban ideas of community in the aftermath of the 7 July 2005 bombings in London. Alternatives: Global, Local, Political, 32(2), 155-176. https://doi.org/10.1177/030437540703200201

This article explores the different ideas of community circulating in the aftermath of the 7 July 2005 bombings in London. Specifically, it compares the idea of a community in unity with a more cosmopolitan, urban idea of community. While these two i... Read More about "Seven million Londoners, one London": National and urban ideas of community in the aftermath of the 7 July 2005 bombings in London.