[ecrea] CFP City imaginings and urban everyday life

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Special Issue CFP

City imaginings and urban everyday life

Editors:
Johanna Ylipulli (University of Oulu, Center for Ubiquitous Computing)
Seija Ridell (University of Tampere, Media Studies, Faculty of 
Communication Sciences)
Jenni Partanen (Tampere University of Technology, Architecture)

WiderScreen 1/2018 focuses on the encounters between city imaginings and 
urban daily life. The starting point of the theme issue is the 
observation that diverse forms of imagining pervade the urban everyday 
life; they are entwined with practices of inhabitation and governance, 
and structure the media representations of city life's realities.

The city is a long-standing and central stage for fictional narration – 
it has featured as a dystopian abyss of depravity and decay or a utopian 
wonderland of prosperity and progress. At the same time, the management 
and planning of cities are shaped by value-laden imaginaries and 
visions. The fictional, the factual and the actual intertwine both in 
how the urban present is lived and experienced and in how the city's 
past and future are envisioned. Yet these imaginings also may collide, 
if the imaginative capacity specific to fiction disturbs the 
taken-for-grantedness of urban daily experience, or exposes and renders 
problematic the interests that steer the planning of urban futures.

We invite to the special issue scholarly contributions that address 
theoretically, methodologically or empirically questions and cases 
relating to the following themes:

- cities in fiction; urban utopias and dystopias in different media and 
genres
- representations of actual cities, for example, in architectural 
rendering, 3D-visualizations and other urban design depictions, or in 
promotional and marketing materials
- relationships between city imaginings and urban everyday life
- imagining urban futures and dynamics of power

The theme issue is bilingual (English / Finnish). In addition to peer 
reviewed article manuscripts (4000-7000 words), we welcome shorter book 
and research reviews, interviews and columns on the subject.

Please send your abstract (300-500 words) by May 31th to Dr. Johanna 
Ylipulli, whom you can also contact for further information: 
(johanna.ylipulli /at/ oulu.fi) 
<mailto:(johanna.ylipulli /at/ oulu.fi)><mailto:(johanna.ylipulli /at/ oulu.fi) 
<mailto:(johanna.ylipulli /at/ oulu.fi)>>. Notification of acceptance by June 
22th. The deadline for the full manuscripts is October 4th 2017. The 
theme issue will be published in the spring 2018.



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