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Journal of Urban Cultural Studies 10.1 is out now! 10th Anniversary Special Issue

Intellect is pleased to announce that Journal of Urban Cultural Studies 10.1 is out now! This is the first issue in their 10th anniversary volume.

Special Issue: ‘Representing Urban Change beyond Gentrification’

This Special Issue emerges from a series of papers and conversations that began within the Association for Literary Urban Studies and specifically at the international online symposium ‘Representing urban change: Gentrification and displacement in literature and other media’, organized in August 2020 by Jason Finch, Åbo Akademi University, Finland; Hanna Henryson, Uppsala University, Sweden; and Åse Richard, Institute for Housing and Urban Research at Uppsala University, Sweden.

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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.

This title is indexed with Scopus.

Issue 10.1

Editorial

Chris Ware’s Building Stories jigsaw puzzle (2021)

BENJAMIN FRASER

Introduction

Representing a long emergency: New approaches to urban change in literary and cultural studies

HANNA HENRYSON AND DAVY KNITTLE

Articles

Expanded narratives of gentrification: Mobility, infrastructure and urban change in 1970s London literature

MARTIN DINES

‘My father’s village, my city’: Place-making in the cinema of NCR