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- Henryson, Hanna, 1986-, et al.
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Representing a long emergency : New approaches to urban change in literary and cultural studies
- 2023
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Ingår i: Journal of Urban Cultural Studies. - Bristol, United Kingdom : Intellect Ltd.. - 2050-9790 .- 2050-9804. ; 10:1, s. 15-30
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The introduction to this Special Issue considers how literary and cultural representations of cities in transition contribute to interdisciplinary vocabularies for describing urban change beyond gentrification. By ‘urban change’ we refer to shifts in city and regional planning and real estate development, but also to environmental events, patterns of migration and informal uses of the city that shape how urban places transform. The introduction frames scholarship about what gentrification can and should describe as a debate about language and representation. We revisit critical discussions of gentrification and turn to areas of urbanist scholarship that have effectively modelled more specific approaches to describing urban change. We introduce the five articles in the Special Issue and contextualize how their engagement with representations of urban change in London, metropolitan Delhi, Lubumbashi, New York and Manchester intervene in interdisciplinary urban scholarship by offering new tools for describing urban change amid neo-liberal globalization.
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- Lund, Martin, 1984-
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‘Every day is 9/11!’ : Re-constructing Ground Zero in three US comics
- 2017
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Ingår i: Journal of Urban Cultural Studies. - : Intellect Ltd.. - 2050-9790 .- 2050-9804. ; 4:1-2, s. 241-261
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article analyses three comics series: writer Brian K. Vaughan and artist Tony Harris’ Ex Machina (August 2004–August 2010); writer Brian Wood and artist Riccardo Burchielli’s DMZ (November 2005–February 2012); and writer Garth Ennis and artist Darick Robertson’s The Boys (October 2006–November 2012). Taking literary critic Laura Frost’s concept of ‘archifictions’ as its starting point, the article discusses how these series frame the September 11 attacks on New York and their aftermath, but its primary concern is with their engagement with the larger social ramifications of 9/11 and with the War on Terror, and with how this engagement is rooted in and centred on Ground Zero. It argues that this rooting allows these comics’ creators to critique post-9/11 US culture and foreign policy, but that it also, ultimately, serves to disarm the critique that each series voices in favour of closure through recourse to recuperative architecture.
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- Mohibullah, Huma, et al.
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Introduction : Imagining Ground Zero
- 2017
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Ingår i: Journal of Urban Cultural Studies. - : Intellect. - 2050-9790 .- 2050-9804. ; 4:1, s. 207-219
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This article discusses the cultural mediation, memorialization and representation of Ground Zero, New York. It considers the site not only in terms of its materiality, but also as a powerful thought concept and outlines how the space and its reception have been treated in other scholarly literature. It contextualizes this special section, which interrogates the ideologies and practices that shape the area, for not only do these craft dominant images of the space, they also challenge hegemonic representations of it. The article also points to strengths and weaknesses in extant work on Ground Zero and introduces the contributions to this special section, in order to situate them within a larger scholarly framework.
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- Olshammar, Gabriella, 1968
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To dock in on the future: Dystopic science fiction scenarios and urban sustainable visions
- 2015
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Ingår i: Journal of urban cultural studies. - : Intellect. - 2050-9790 .- 2050-9804. ; 2:3, s. 347-356
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In the future worlds of science fiction novels, societal and physical dilemmas are at least as pressing as those we encounter on Earth today. These novels show, by way of far-reaching technology and fantastic creativity, how the human race has overcome extraordinary physical, language and social challenges. Still, no matter how fictitious the portraits of extraterrestrial habitats or space travels, the narra- tives seem deeply attached to the worst imaginable breaches between affluent and poor. The images of glittering towers that stand side by side with self-made shacks are, in fact, not much different from documented inequalities and distressed living conditions on Earth. This article addresses how a handful of science fiction novels express something of importance about contemporary urban environments. The aim is to spur a consideration of urban sustainable visions, and the discussion delves into two rhetoric questions: what is so tempting about the frequently used settings, with their excessive divides between rich and poor? Further, might such dystopian and frightening fictions possibly be more effective to think about visionary plans for future cities than utopian ones?
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- Lund, Martin, 1984-
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'X marks the spot' : Urban dystopia, slum voyeurism and failures of identity in District X
- 2015
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Ingår i: Journal of Urban Cultural Studies. - : Intellect Ltd.. - 2050-9790. ; 2:1-2, s. 34-56
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article studies the ‘imaginative mapping’ of a real-world neighbourhood in one comic book series: lower Manhattan’s Alphabet City in writer David Hine and artists David Yardin and Lan Medina’s District X (July 2004–January 2006). In contrast to a long-standing claim to ‘realism’ in Marvel’s use of New York City, this article argues that the real Alphabet City – at the time a contested and rapidly gentrifying neighbourhood – is nowhere to be found in District X, replaced by a voyeuristic fabrication, a sensationalistic node of concentration for middle-class fears about urban decline and blight amid prosperity and contemporary discourses about drugs, crime and homelessness that reproduces long-standing cultural representations of the neighbourhood as different and inferior. In doing so, the series polices a boundary of identity, empathy and imagination and tells readers that force in favour of clearing out radical difference in the neighbourhood and making it into a space fit for ‘normal’ people is natural, rational and logical and in the best interest even of those who might be displaced by gentrification, disproportionately incarcerated in the name of ‘law and order’, or put at risk of their lives in dangerous shelters.
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