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[ecrea] Journal of Urban Cultural Studies 2.1&2

Thu Aug 27 14:55:22 GMT 2015





Intellect is delighted to announce the new issue of /Journal of Urban
Cultural Studies 2.1&2./ This journal explores both the humanities and
the social sciences in order to better understand the culture of cities.

This is a new double issue that includes a special section investigating
urban soundscapes, critical citizenship, and the 'sonic turn' in urban
cultural studies.

For the full list of articles please click on the link below

http://bit.ly/1U9kSy0


Selected articles (partial list):


‘X marks the spot’: Urban dystopia, slum voyeurism and failures of
identity in District X
<http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/intellect/jucs/2015/00000002/F0020001/art00003>**
pp. 35-55(21)
*Author:*/Lund, Martin/

This article studies the ‘imaginative mapping’ of a real-world
neighborhood in one comic book series: lower Manhattan’s Alphabet City
in writer David Hine and artists David Yardin and Lan Medina’s District X.

Electronic music scenes: A comparison of the diverging spatial contexts
of the electronic dance music scenes of Berlin and Amsterdam
<http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/intellect/jucs/2015/00000002/F0020001/art00004>**
pp. 57-74(18)
*Author:*/Dorst, Hade/

This article examines two epicentres of the EDM scene, Berlin and
Amsterdam, in order to show how factors such as availability of
distinctive and affordable spaces for music production, and the
regulation and planning of such spaces, impact the ways in which the EDM
scene unfolds.

Vagón fumador: Desire and dissatisfaction in the neo-liberal nocturnal
city
<http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/intellect/jucs/2015/00000002/F0020001/art00005>**
pp. 75-88(14)
*Author:*/Sdrigotti, Fernando/

This article explores the representation of Buenos Aires during the
climax of the Argentine neo-liberal crisis in Vagón fumador/Smokers Only
by Chen (2003), through an analysis of the spatial practice of its
characters.

At home, I’m a tourist: Musical migration and affective citizenship in
Berlin
<http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/intellect/jucs/2015/00000002/F0020001/art00008>
pp. 121-134(14)
*Author:*/Garcia, Luis-Manuel/

This article explores the ways in which musical, sonic, and more broadly
sensory experiences of Berlin provide the ground for an ambivalent sense
of civic belonging for a cadre of migrants affiliated with the city’s
local electronic dance music scenes.

Ragged places and smooth surfaces: Audio walks as practices of making
and doing the city
<http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/intellect/jucs/2015/00000002/F0020001/art00010>**
pp. 151-164(14)
*Authors:*/Moles, Kate; Saunders, Angharad/

This article engages with how our auditory engagement with a particular
soundscape helps frame and construct the places we move in and
influences the ways we relate to our surroundings, to others and to
ourselves.

The right to the city (If You Want It): Marshall Berman and urban
culture
<http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/intellect/jucs/2015/00000002/F0020001/art00012>**
pp. 177-185(9)
*Author:*/Millington, Gareth/

This article examines how Marshall Berman’s writings on urban culture
and politics illuminates and extends our understanding of the role that
culture plays in Henri Lefebvre’s emancipatory notion of the right to
the city, a role that tends to be underplayed by contemporary critical
urbanists.

Madrid’s Gran Vía: An urban cultural history and digital project
<http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/intellect/jucs/2015/00000002/F0020001/art00015>**
pp. 205-213(9)
*Author:*/Fraser, Benjamin/

This short-form article explores the potential for social sciences and
humanities approaches to combine in a site-focused, interdisciplinary
approach to urban culture.

If you would like more information about the journal please click below
or email (eden /at/ intellectbooks.com) <mailto:(eden /at/ intellectbooks.com)>

http://bit.ly/1Jv2qhF

Kind regards,

Eden


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*Eden Joseph | Marketing Assistant*

Intellect, The Mill, Parnall Rd, Fishponds, Bristol BS16 3JG, UK
www.intellectbooks.com

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