Journal of Urban Cultural Studies

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Volume (6): Issue (2-3)

Cover date: 2019

From local space to global spectacle: World Heritage and space utilization in Calle Crisologo, Vigan City, Philippines

Authors: Mark Louie Tabunan

Page: 129-154

DOI: 10.1386/jucs_00007_1

Chinatown Invisible: Hybrid-mapping and making-do

Authors: Liska Chan

Page: 155-181

DOI: 10.1386/jucs_00008_1

Editorial: Working-class heritage and the city

Authors: Gareth Millington, Andrew Wallace

Page: 183-197DOI: 10.1386/jucs_00009_1

The heritagization of postindustrial re-development and social inclusion in Amsterdam

Authors: Linda van de Kamp

Page: 199-218

DOI: 10.1386/jucs_00010_1

‘That once romantic now utterly disheartening (former) colliery town’: The affective politics of heritage, memory, place and regeneration in Mansfield, UK

Authors: Jay Emery

Page: 219-240

DOI: 10.1386/jucs_00011_1

Between ‘creative’ boost and political dysfunction: An exploration of class, culture and economic dislocation in East Berlin

Authors: Talja Blokland, Sebastian Juhnke

Page: 241-264

DOI: 10.1386/jucs_00012_1

Rust Belt Chic: Deindustrialization, place and urban authenticity

Authors: James Rhodes

Page: 265-286

DOI: 10.1386/jucs_00013_1

Tracing working-class cultural historical heritage through one building’s story: ‘La Grande Brasserie du Levant’

Authors: Mira Kfoury

Page: 287-310

DOI: 10.1386/jucs_00014_1

 

Volume (6): Issue (1)

Cover date: 2019

Tricking memory, remaking the city: Trompe l’oeil and the visual transformation of a historic city in China: Chengdu

Authors: Yanshuo Zhang

Page: 3-29

DOI: 10.1386/jucs_00001_1

Imagining mid-nineteenth-century Beirut as a ‘City of the World’: Public intellectuals, photography, cartography and historical literature

Authors: Rita Sakr

Page: 31-57

DOI: 10.1386/jucs_00002_1

Cartographies of Paris: Everyday mobilities in Michèle Rakotoson’s Elle, au printemps and Alain Mabanckou’s Tais-toi et meurs

Authors: Anna-Leena Toivanen

Page: 59-78

DOI: 10.1386/jucs_00003_1

Consumption on the Orient Express: Commodification and gamification of urban mobility in Tokyo Metro campaigns

Authors: Mina Qiao

Page: 79-94

DOI: 10.1386/jucs_00004_1

Cultural gentrification: Gourmet and Latinx immigrant food trucks vendors in Los Angeles

Authors: Lorena Munoz

Page: 95-111

DOI: 10.1386/jucs_00005_1

Out in the cold: Busking Copenhagen’s Nørreport Station and the urban affects of music

Authors: Michael Amundsen

Page: 113-122

DOI: 10.1386/jucs_00006_1

Volume 5 Issue 2

Cover Date: June 2018

Contents

Making worlds in urban cultural studies

Authors:  Carolyn Birdsall And  Simone Kalkman

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The beach as microcosm of a cosmopolitan city: Imagining and experiencing urban encounters at Trieste’s Pedocin beach

Authors:  Milou van Hout

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(Re)Addressing Mostar: Global imaginaries, local activisms

Authors:  Giulia Carabelli

Page Start: 147
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Of ‘Godziners’ and ‘Designer Citizens’: The emergence of designers as political subjects in Cape Town

Authors:  Laura Nkula-Wenz

Page Start: 165
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Bourgeois worlds and urban nightmares: The post-Ottoman Balkan City through the lens of Milutin Uskoković’s Newcomers

Authors:  Miloš Jovanović

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Favelas at the biennale: Exhibiting Brazilian informality in Europe

Authors:  Simone Kalkman

Page Start: 207
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Urban encounters: Performance and making urban worlds

Authors:  Dan Swanton

Page Start: 229
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Seeing the self in the world: Attending to banal globalism in urban visual cultures

Authors:  Simon Ferdinand

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Defiant worldings from Manchester, England: Expulsed global solidarities and the international homeland of dignity

Authors:  Cornelia Gräbner

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Mobile worlding: Exploring the trans-urban circulation and the interconnectedness of migrants’ urban world-making practices

Authors:  Luce Beeckmans

Page Start: 263
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Volume 5 Issue 1

Cover Date: March 2018

Contents

Cultural studies, behind the scenes: Notes on the craft of interdisciplinary scholarship

Authors:  Benjamin Fraser And  Araceli Masterson-Algar And  Stephen Luis Vilaseca

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Writing around Paterson: Critical urban poetics in Williams, Olson and Ginsberg

Authors:  Nate Mickelson

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Borders and trajectories: Remapping cities in Hou Hsiao-hsien’s films

Authors:  Xiao Cai

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‘Kerist I wish I was a skyscraper’: John Dos Passos’ Manhattan Transfer, skyscrapers and the predatory modern city

Authors:  Adam R. McKee

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An interdisciplinary look at metropolitanisms

Authors:  Sophia Basaldua-Sun

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Los Angeles is Latin America: Art, driving and the city

Authors:  Johanna K. Taylor

Page Start: 81
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Digital personal space: From the plaza to the global canopy

Authors:  Silvio Carta

Page Start: 91
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Volume 4 Issue 3

Cover Date: September 2017

Contents

Zombie urbanism and the city by the bay: What’s really eating Geelong?

Authors:  Fiona Gray And  Matt Novacevski

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‘Comics on the Main Street of Culture’: Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell’s From Hell (1999), Laura Oldfield Ford’s Savage Messiah (2011) and the politics of gentrification

Authors:  Dominic Davies

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A dark imaginarium: The Bridge, Malmö and the making of a ‘non-existent’ place

Authors:  Robert A. Saunders

Page Start: 361
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Glossy postcards and virtual collectibles: Consuming cinematic Paris

Authors:  Isabelle McNeill

Page Start: 387
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New South, ‘New Athens?’: Angels, mobility and myths

Authors:  Jason Luger

Page Start: 407
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Smoothing space in Palestine: Building a skatepark and a socio-political forum with the SkatePal charity

Authors:  Dani Abulhawa

Page Start: 417
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Global social activism, DIY culture and lack of institutional help

Authors:  Jorge González del Pozo

Page Start: 427
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Multiple landscapes of capital cities

Authors:  Zlata Vuksanović-Macura

Page Start: 437
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Volume 4 Issue 1-2

Cover Date: July 2017

Contents

SPECIAL SECTION: CITIES IN THE LUSO-HISPANIC WORLD

Edited by Araceli Masterson-Algar and Stephen Luis Vilaseca

Through the Looking Glass: Windows to ‘Cities in the Luso-Hispanic World’

Authors:  Araceli Masterson-Algar And  Stephen Luis Vilaseca

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Pharmakopolis: Cesário Verde’s Lisbon

Authors:  Charles Rice-Davis

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Rehoused but unhomed: The effects of Portugal’s Special Rehousing Program as represented in Pedro Costa’s Juventude em Marcha

Authors:  Emily Knudson-Vilaseca

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‘La Callejera’: Streetwalks through Minas Gerais in Autran Dourado’s Uma vida em segredo (1964)

Authors:  Araceli Masterson-Algar

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Giving visibility to urban change in Rio de Janeiro through digital audio-visual culture: A Brazilian webdocumentary project and its circulation

Authors:  Tori Holmes

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Haptic film spaces and the rhythms of everyday life in São Paulo in Lina Chamie’s A via láctea

Authors:  Andrew C. Rajca

Page Start: 87
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Noise, soundscape and heritage: Sound cartographies and urban segregation in twenty-first-century Mexico City

Authors:  Natalia Bieletto-Bueno

Page Start: 107
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Contested urban heritage: Discourses of meaning and ownership of the Mosque-Cathedral of Córdoba, Spain

Authors:  Brian Rosa And  Jaime Jover-Báez

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Urban fortunes: Spatializing the community of money in Alex de la Iglesia’s La comunidad

Authors:  Malcolm A. Compitello

Page Start: 155
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The irresistible outside: Innocence, desire and transgression in a Brazilian urban utopia

Authors:  Matthew A. Richmond

Page Start: 177
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Edward Soja’s postmetropolis: A contemporary urban phenomenon as seen in Latin American cinema

Authors:  Andrea Franco

Page Start: 187
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Digital Barcelona: An interdisciplinary urban cultural studies digital project

Authors:  Benjamin Fraser And  Camille Kresz And  Irina Swain

Page Start: 195
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SPECIAL SECTION: IMAGINING GROUND ZERO

Edited by Huma Mohibullah and Martin Lund

Introduction: Imagining Ground Zero

Authors:  Huma Mohibullah And  Martin Lund

Page Start: 207
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No safe spaces: Notes on the National September 11 Museum

Authors:  Laura Frost

Page Start: 221
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‘Every day is 9/11!’: Re-constructing Ground Zero in three US comics

Authors:  Martin Lund

Page Start: 241
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Sacred space: Muslim and Arab belonging at Ground Zero

Authors:  Huma Mohibullah

Page Start: 263
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Frozen thought: Physical representations of power and the rebuilding of Ground Zero

Authors:  Katherine C. Donahue

Page Start: 283
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Volume 3 Issue 3

Cover Date: September 2016

Contents

Comics art and urban cultural studies method through Chris Ware’s Building Stories (2012)

Authors:  Benjamin Fraser

Page Start: 291
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Gathering place: Urban indigeneity and the production of space in Edmonton, Canada

Authors:  Karen Wall

Page Start: 301
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Not a fantasy city: Composition, fotogènia and the reconquesta del real in the theatrical and cinematic land/lang-scapes of Barcelona

Authors:  Loredana Comparone

Page Start: 327
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Cartographies of disappearance: Thresholds in Barcelona’s metro

Authors:  Enric Bou

Page Start: 347
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Re-thinking cinema and the city in crisis: Film, narrative agency and urban transformation in selected recent publications

Authors:  Mark Schmitt

Page Start: 373
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Berlin: Images of a transformed city

Authors:  Bastian Heinsohn

Page Start: 381
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Issues of space and spatiality in contemporary Spanish Peninsular studies

Authors:  Vinodh Venkatesh

Page Start: 389
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Literary studies after the spatial turn

Authors:  Alexander Beaumont

Page Start: 395
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Between crisis and creativity: Esther M. K. Cheung’s study of the everyday

Authors:  Winnie L. M. Yee

Page Start: 407
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Volume 3 Issue 2

Cover Date: June 2016

Contents

Wu Jianren’s New Story of the Stone and interrogating turn-of-the-century urbanist ideology in China

Authors:  Tom Marling

Page Start: 151
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A Bildungsroman for a waterfront development: Literary genre and the planning narratives of Jätkäsaari, Helsinki

Authors:  Lieven Ameel

Page Start: 169
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Urban segregation, game arcades and codified porn: Representations of youth in Madrid (1980–1995)

Authors:  Vicente Rodríguez Ortega

Page Start: 189
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Imagining the pavement: A search through everyday texts for the symbolism of an everyday artefact

Authors:  Megan Hicks

Page Start: 207
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Housing for whom? Wole Soyinka’s Beatification of Area Boy and the audacity of a new Nigeria

Authors:  Chinenye Amonyeze

Page Start: 223
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Festival and tradition in contemporary Florence

Authors:  Christian Frost

Page Start: 239
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Tracing the Politics of Urbanism and Abjection: Space and Identity in Trainspotting

Authors:  Gabriela Salvador D’Ambrosio

Page Start: 255
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‘Reading the territory’: Psychogeography and urban intertextuality

Authors:  Ella Mudie

Page Start: 275
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Volume 3 Issue 1

Cover Date: March 2016

Contents

Cinematicity: City and cinema after Deleuze

Authors:  David B. Clarke And  Marcus A. Doel

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Cinema, thought, immanence: Contemplating signs and empty spaces in the films of Ozu

Authors:  Andrew Lapworth

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The architectural cinematicity of Wang Shu and the architectonic cinema of Jia Zhangke: Diagrammatically decomposing the ‘main melody’ in monu-mental assemblage art

Authors:  David H. Fleming

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Paris vs providence: Framing the crystalline city in Jean Renoir’s La Chienne (1931)

Authors:  Barry Nevin

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Topographies of liminality in 1960s’ New York underground cinema: Peter Emanuel Goldman’s Echoes of Silence (1965)

Authors:  Berit Hummel

Page Start: 73
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Held captive in frames: Reconstructing 1970s New York through Chantal Akerman’s Hotel Monterey and News from Home

Authors:  Marlon T. L. Fink

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Exploring pop-up cinema and the city: Deleuzian encounters with secret cinema’s pop-up screening of The Third Man

Authors:  Ella Harris

Page Start: 113
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Of other worlds: A dialogue on the disappearing gardens of Fez and the different worlds they foster

Authors:  Heidi Vogels And  Halbe Hessel Kuipers

Page Start: 133
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Volume 2 Issue 3

Cover Date: September 2015

Contents

Alternative geohistories of global cities in Salman Rushdie’s novels

Authors:  Madhumita Roy And  Anjali Gera Roy

Page Start: 221
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Imagine(d) space: Experiencing the urban phenomena of the gallery

Authors:  Alexandra Kingston Reese

Page Start: 237
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Polyrhythmia, heterogeneity and urban identity: Intersections between ‘official’ and ‘unofficial’ narratives in the socio-spatial practices of Australia’s Gold Coast

Authors:  Zelmarie Cantillon

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Grotland explored: The fleeting urban imaginaries of post-war inner West London

Authors:  Jason Finch

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The twentieth-century city: Socialist, capitalist, modern

Authors:  Marie-Alice L’Heureux

Page Start: 297
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Online story-telling and the non-fiction city: An interview with Cassim Shepard, Founding Editor of Urban Omnibus

Authors:  Sarah Barns And  Donald McNeill

Page Start: 307
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Touring ethnicity, race and multiculturalism in urban contexts

Authors:  Adam Kaul

Page Start: 317
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Homeless Projection: Place des Arts: An Interview with Krzysztof Wodiczko

Authors:  Marc James Léger

Page Start: 325
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‘Montreal might eat its young, but Montreal won’t break us down’: The co-production of place, space and independent music in Mile End, 1995–2015

Authors:  William Bedford

Page Start: 335
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To dock in on the future: Dystopic science fiction scenarios and urban sustainable visions

Authors:  Gabriella Olshammar

Page Start: 347
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Volume 2 Issue 1-2

Cover Date: June 2015

Contents

Text to street: Urban cultural studies as theorization and practice

Authors:  Araceli Masterson-Algar And  Stephen Luis Vilaseca

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Cape Town and the sustainable city in the writing of Henrietta Rose-Innes

Authors:  Loren Kruger

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‘X marks the spot’: Urban dystopia, slum voyeurism and failures of identity in District X

Authors:  Martin Lund

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Electronic music scenes: A comparison of the diverging spatial contexts of the electronic dance music scenes of Berlin and Amsterdam

Authors:  Hade Dorst

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Vagón fumador: Desire and dissatisfaction in the neo-liberal nocturnal city

Authors:  Fernando Sdrigotti

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Urban soundscapes and critical citizenship: Explorations in activating a ‘sonic turn’ in urban cultural studies

Authors:  Aileen Dillane And  Tony Langlois And  Martin J. Power And  Orfhlaith Ní Bhriain

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Dead industrial atmosphere: Popular music, cultural heritage and industrial cities

Authors:  Giacomo Bottà

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At home, I’m a tourist: Musical migration and affective citizenship in Berlin

Authors:  Luis-Manuel Garcia

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Our sounds, our city: Urban soundscapes, critical citizenship and the ‘LimerickSoundscapes’ project

Authors:  Aileen Dillane And  Tony Langlois

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Ragged places and smooth surfaces: Audio walks as practices of making and doing the city

Authors:  Kate Moles And  Angharad Saunders

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‘Our Sonic Playground’: A model for active engagement in urban soundscapes

Authors:  Eric Leonardson

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The right to the city (If You Want It): Marshall Berman and urban culture

Authors:  Gareth Millington

Page Start: 177
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Neo-liberalism: Persistence and resistance

Authors:  Linus Owens

Page Start: 187
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Public art practice and urban change: An interview with public art activist Jack Becker

Authors:  Venda Louise Pollock And  Joanne Sharp

Page Start: 197
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Madrid’s Gran Vía: An urban cultural history and digital project

Authors:  Benjamin Fraser

Page Start: 205
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Volume 1 Issue 3

Cover Date: September 2014

Contents

Inaugural editorial: Urban cultural studies – a manifesto (part 2)

Authors:  Benjamin Fraser

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The worst tourists in the world: Gangsters, heterotopia and the space of global capital In Bruges

Authors:  Erica Stein

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Alternative sprawls, junkcities: Buenos Aires Libre and horizontal urban epistemologies

Authors:  Allison M. Schifani

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‘Alas, alas. House, oh house!’: The collapse of the Cologne City Archive

Authors:  Dora Osborne

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Spaces for reading, a cartography of used books in urban Latin America

Authors:  Marcy Schwartz

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Urban tellurics in Barcelona: Between a Heideggerian rock and a postmodern swimming pool

Authors:  Edgar Illas

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Geographies of street art: Shepard Fairey and the trans-scalar imagination

Authors:  Mark Long

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Bodies and sculptures: Moving mountains

Authors:  Kate Evans

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‘Psychogeography of the Boundary’: An author interview with Eric Hazan

Authors:  Matthew Beaumont

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Sydney’s Chinatown/Chinese cities

Authors:  Donald McNeill

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Volume 1 Issue 2

Cover Date: June 2014

Contents

New Jerusalems: Derek Walcott’s poetics of the Caribbean city

Authors:  Ben Thomas Jefferson

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Re-enchanting the city: Hybrid space, affect and playful performance in geocaching, a location-based mobile game

Authors:  Maja Klausen

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The projection on the wall: What audio-visual architectural mapping says about Catalan identity

Authors:  Stephen Luis Vilaseca

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Richard Price’s Lower East Side: Cops, culture and gentrification

Authors:  Thomas Heise

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Colonial modernity and urban space: Naguib Mahfouz’s Cairo

Authors:  Bede Scott

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The London 2012 Olympics: The cultural politics of urban regeneration

Authors:  Michael Silk

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Temporalizing urban space: The making of place by three Hong Kong writers

Authors:  Winnie L. M. Yee

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Teaching urban: Reflections from Hispanic Studies

Authors:  Matthew I. Feinberg

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Jane Jacobs and the problem of the city

Authors:  Carlton Wade Basmajian

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Reclaiming the city through archive and activism: An interview with the Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space (MoRUS)

Authors:  Susan Divine

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Volume 1 Issue 1

Cover Date: March 2014

Contents

Inaugural editorial: Urban cultural studies – a manifesto (Part 1)

Authors:  Benjamin Fraser

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Disaster, pre-emptive security and urban space in the post-9/11 New York City of Cloverfield and The Visitor

Authors:  Stephanie Simon

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Tokyo, gender and mobility: Tracking fictional characters on real monorails, trains, subways and trams

Authors:  Barbara E. Thornbury

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The harlot city?: Prostitution in Hollywood, 1920–40

Authors:  AnneMarie Kooistra

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Liberty at the merry-go-round: Leisure, politics and municipal authority on the Paseo del Prado in Madrid, 1760–1939

Authors:  Eugenia Afinoguénova

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Misuse of The Monument: The art of parkour and the discursive limits of a disciplinary architecture

Authors:  Matthew D. Lamb

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Unpicking the musical city: On Adam Krims’s Music and Urban Geography

Authors:  David Beer

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Félix Guattari and urban cultural studies

Authors:  Stephen Luis Vilaseca

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Cardboard Towns/Città Di Cartone: An artist interview with Marco Bigliazzi

Authors:  Benjamin Fraser

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Societies of Occupy: Scenes from occupied Pittsburgh

Authors:  Keith Spencer

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Its first issue launched in late 2013 (dated March 2014), the Journal of Urban Cultural Studies (JUCS) is a peer-refereed, international journal that blends humanities and social-science approaches to the culture(s) of cities. Its pages are devoted to rigorously argued research centered on urban themes that attempts to fuse urban studies- and cultural studies-perspectives. Articles give more or less equal weight to: a) one or more aspects of urban studies (everyday life, built environment, architecture, city planning, identity formation, transportation…) and b) one or more specific forms of cultural (textual) production (literature, film, graphic novels, music, art, graffiti, videogames, online or virtual spaces…) in relation to a specific urban space or spaces. The journal is open to studies that deal with culture, urban spaces and forms of urbanized consciousness the world over.

Research Articles of 7,000-10,000 words (including works cited and notes) should be sent by email attachment to the Editor. We also publish Short-Form Articles of 2,500-4,000 words in a variety of formats (interviews, assessments of the field, general and theoretical musings…). JUCS is also open to proposals of special issues by guest editors working individually or in teams of two. All citations in other languages should be translated into English for the journal’s international reading public.

While we do not publish single book reviews, we do encourage review essays—which should discuss 3-5 recent books on a shared topic or theme (or place) and run from 2,500 to 4,000 words. These essays will be reviewed in house. We also are interested in publishing original (unpublished) artwork on the topic of cities. Send an initial inquiry to the journal editor with the images you would like to publish. Final images will have to be sent as high-resolution files.

EDITORS:

Executive Editor: Benjamin Fraser, University of Arizona

Associate Editors:

Araceli Masterson-Algar, University of Kansas

Stephen Vilaseca, Northern Illinois University

EDITORIAL BOARD:

The strengths of the editorial board currently run from urban geography to literature and film, photography and videogames, gender and sexuality, creative economy, Marxist approaches, fashion, urban planning, anthropology, sociology, Deaf culture, built environment, philosophy, architecture, detective fiction and noir, and more…

Stuart Aitken, San Diego State University

Dirksen Bauman, Gallaudet University

David Beer, University of York

Liz Bondi, University of Edinburgh

Esther M.K. Cheung, Hong Kong University

Ella Chmielewska, University of Edinburgh

Sara Cohen, University of Liverpool

Samuel Collins, Towson University

Malcolm Compitello, University of Arizona

Monica Degen, Brunel University

Stuart Elden, University of Warwick

Rebecca Haidt, The Ohio State University

Sonia Hirt, Virginia Tech

Amanda Holmes, McGill University

Eric Laurier, University of Edinburgh

Donald McNeill, University of Western Sydney

Angela McRobbie, University of London (Goldsmiths C)

Michael Nitsche, Georgia Institute of Technology

Gyan Prakash, Princeton University

Les Roberts, University of Liverpool

Mary Ellen Schwartz, Rutgers University

Rob Shields, University of Alberta

Steven Spalding, United States Naval Academy

Will Straw, McGill University

Roberta Tabanelli, University of Missouri-Columbia

Robin Visser, UNC-Chapel Hill

Brigitta Wagner, Indiana University

Andrew Webber, University of Cambridge (Churchhill C)

Richard J. Williams, University of Edinburgh

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In recent years, cities have been increasingly at the forefront of debate in both humanities and social science disciplines, but there has been relatively little real dialogue across these disciplinary boundaries. On the one hand, journals in social science fields that use urban studies methods to look at life in cities rarely explore the cultural aspects of urban life in any depth or delve into close-readings of the representation of cities in individual novels, music albums/songs, graphic novels, films, videogames, online ‘virtual’ spaces, or other artistic and cultural products. On the other hand, while there is increasing discussion of urban topics and themes in the humanities, broadly considered, there are very few journal publications that are open to these new interdisciplinary directions of scholarship. This means that scholars in Language and Literature fields are forced to submit their innovative work to journals that, in general, do not yet admit the link between humanities studies of the representations of cities and more social-science focused urban studies approaches.

The Journal of Urban Cultural Studies is thus open to scholarship from any and all linguistic, cultural and geographical traditions—provided that English translations are provided for all primary and secondary sources citations. Articles published in the journal draw equally from both the humanities and the social sciences in order to better understand the culture(s) of cities. Although the journal is open to many specific methodologies that blend humanities research with social-science perspectives on the city, the central methodological premise of the journal is perhaps best summed up by cultural studies-pioneer Raymond Williams—who emphasized giving equal weight to the “project (art)” and the “formation (society).” Essays will be sent out for peer-review that achieve some balance between discussing an individual (or multiple) cultural/artistic product(s) in depth and also using one of many social-science (geographical, anthropological, sociological…) urban approaches to investigate a given city. Essays will ideally address both an individual city itself and also its cultural representation.

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