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Intellect is pleased to announce that Journal of Urban Cultural Studies 9.2 is out now!

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https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-urban-cultural-studies

Aims & Scope

This peer-reviewed journal provides in-depth exploration of the cultural aspects of urban life and the representation of cities in cultural products. It explores the intersection of humanities and social sciences, including essays that balance individual cultural/artistic product(s) with social-science urban approaches.

Issue 9.2

Articles

From museum aesthetics to everyday aesthetics: Narratives about Saigon in The Lover by Jean-Jacques Annaud and Bar Girls by Le Hoang

THI NHU TRANG NGUYEN

Spatial violence and everyday borders in contested cities: Literary representations

of walking in Anna Burns’s Milkman

SUNJAY MATHURIA

The architectural features of socio-spatial transformation in Hassan Al-Imam’s Cairo Trilogy

SAMEH EL-FEKI AND TAHER ABDEL-GHANI

Qiddiya’s Journey: A case study in urban imagineering and image laundering

ANDRÉS F. RAMÍREZ

The embodied city: Reconstructing Beirut in Zeina Abirached’s A Game for Swallows

ANDREA MODARRES

Interview

Infrastructure and intervention on the comics page: An interview with Dominic Davies about his book Urban Comics (2019)

BENJAMIN FRASER

Short-form Article

Las ciudades que somos (‘The cities we are’): A review of three Latin American comics by women creators