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Journal of Urban Cultural Studies 11.1 is out now! Special Issue
Thursday, August 22, 2024

Journal of Urban Cultural Studies 11.1 is out now! Special Issue

Intellect is pleased to announce that Journal of Urban Cultural Studies 11.1 is out now!

 

Special Issue: ‘A Tourist City: Utopia and Dystopia. Views from the Spanish “Boom”, 1964–75’

 

This Special Issue on ‘A Tourist City: Utopia and Dystopia. Views from the Spanish “Boom”, 1964–75’ – guest-edited by Eugenia Afinoguénova – is a much-needed and enlightening contribution to the ongoing debate over tourism and the reorganization of space in Spain during the tourist boom in the 1960s and 1970s.

 

For more information about the journal and issue click here>>

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 11.1

 

Editorial

 

What is a liveable tourist city in twenty-first-century Spain? From leisure and consumption to degrowth

STEPHEN LUIS VILASECA

 

Foreword

 

A tourist city: Utopia and dystopia: Views from the Spanish ‘boom’, 1964–75

EUGENIA AFINOGUÉNOVA

 

Articles

 

The End of History, alienation and urban photography across the French–Spanish border, 1964–75

EUGENIA AFINOGUÉNOVA

 

Fernando Higueras and Lanzarote: A utopian approach to the landscape of tourism in Spain

RAMÓN V. DÍAZ DEL CAMPO MARTÍN-MANTERO

 

Images of the tourist city: Visions from Spain

JULIÁN DÍAZ SÁNCHEZ

 

Postcards from faraway: Utopia for today, dystopia for tomorrow

CRISTINA ARRIBAS

 

The Ten-Bel project: Tourism on a grand scale

RALPH KISTLER

 

Magical South: An eight-bullet-point photoshoot of everyday life in the tourist city

PABLO ESTÉVEZ HERNÁNDEZ

 

Afterword

 

The holy city of holidays: Seven theses on the touristification of Spain

GERMÁN LABRADOR MÉNDEZ