[ecrea] New issue of the Journal of Urban Cultural Studies 3.3

Intellect is delighted to announce the new issue of the /Journal of 
Urban Cultural Studies 3.3/ is now available.

If you have any questions about the journal click here 
<http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Journal,id=225/view,page=0/> 
or email (katy /at/ intellectbooks.com) <mailto:(katy /at/ intellectbooks.com)>.

List of articles (partial list):

Gathering place: Urban indigeneity and the production of space in 
Edmonton, Canada 
<http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Article,id=23032/>
Authors: Karen Wall
Page Start: 301

This article examines material and intangible traces of Aboriginal 
history and cultural presence in a theoretical context concerned with 
public spaces promoting transformative, dialogic, cross-cultural 
encounters. Case studies consider urban spaces as gathering places in 
terms of their relevance to indigenous practices of metissage. What is 
at stake for settler colonial cities in the recognition and inclusion of 
indigenous presence and historical relationships? Aboriginal cultures 
can and must play a critical role in the development of a mature civic 
identity rooted in a complex mutual history, with implications for urban 
social and ecological sustainability in the future.

Cartographies of disappearance: Thresholds in Barcelona’s metro 
<http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Article,id=23034/>
Authors: Enric Bou
Page Start: 347

This article proposes an analysis of Barcelona’s metro system following 
David Pike’s threshold concept, key to the topography of the ‘vertical 
city’. This will be done through reading maps and literary texts that 
illustrate three closely related issues: an interpretation of 
Barcelona’s metro network and its meanings; the disappearance of some 
metro stations and underground spaces, such as hidden connecting 
corridors, which create a shallow presence of the past into the present, 
examples of urban spaces that are buried and forgotten; and subway life 
as portrayed in some literary texts with particular emphasis on the use 
of mythology.

Berlin: Images of a transformed city 
<http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Article,id=23036/>
Authors: Bastian Heinsohn
Page Start: 381

The question of how to appropriately commemorate a city’s past in the 
process of urban transformation is a task that is not exclusively 
reserved for urban planners. In the case of Berlin, it is a particularly 
complex challenge because of the city’s turbulent history in the 
twentieth century. This article explores three treatments of a modern 
urban landscape that incorporates a web of historical layers.

<http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Article,id=23038/>
Literary studies after the spatial turn 
<http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Article,id=23038/>
Authors: Alexander Beaumont
Page Start: 395

This article examines three recent publications in the field of urban 
literary studies. It argues that spatiality has become a key term within 
this discipline, with the inferences of the spatial turn during the 
1980s and 1990s having been firmly assimilated with the methodological 
procedures of textual analysis today. However, the article argues that 
the textual construction of the relationship between space and identity 
has not been fully and satisfactorily articulated within the field, with 
a hard-headedly materialist account of representational space sitting 
uncomfortably alongside a cultural materialist understanding of 
identity. This difficulty, it suggests, accounts for some of the 
theoretical dilemmas represented in the books under discussion, despite 
their many strengths.


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