Special Issue of Mediapolis: A Journal of Cities and Culture edited by Linda Kopitz and Pei-Sze Chow
The foundational manifesto written by Joan Tronto draws an implicit connection between care and place in its emphasis on shifting care from the … Read more...
Alex Gekker in Mobile Media & Communication
The paper explores Google Maps’ COVID-19 layer, a special feature launched by the cartographic platform in September 2020, and shut down two years later. Through the reading of promotional corporate blogposts and interfacial … Read more...
By Ben Moore
Ben Moore presents a new approach to reading urban modernity in nineteenth-century literature, by bringing together hidden, mobile and transparent features of city space as part of a single system he calls ‘invisible architecture’. Resisting narratives of … Read more...
Jelke R. Bosma and Niels van Doorn in Space and Culture
In this article, we argue that it is analytically productive to think about the professionalization of hosting on Airbnb in terms of (commercial) gentrification. More precisely, we believe that … Read more...
Timo Koren in European Journal of Cultural Studies
Understanding regulation is key to identifying and understanding the mechanisms and patterns that (re)produce social inequalities in nightclub production. Roughly speaking, researchers have focused on two forms of regulation: governmental regulation and … Read more...
Special Issue WARP Walking Practices x Soapbox Journal edited by Alice Twemlow and Tânia A. Cardoso
Walking centres the body in a research practice. The body that gets cold, sweaty, thirsty, or blistered. The body that encompasses feelings, emotions, prejudices, … Read more...
This book develops and demonstrates an interdisciplinary method that reads literary works as a way of thinking about the city. Literary works do not only provide reflections of the city – depictions of the city as an … Read more...
