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Book Review: Urban Assemblages: How Actor-Network Theory Changes Urban Studies

Thursday, January 6, 2011

Ignacio Farías and Thomas Bender (eds.) Urban Assemblages: How Actor-Network Theory Changes Urban Studies. 2010. London: Routledge. 352 pp. ISBN: 978-0-415-48662-0
Reviewed by Andrew Karvonen, Manchester Architecture Research Centre, University of Manchester (UK)
In past three decades, actor-network theory (ANT) has infiltrated a wide range of theories, methods, and empirical studies throughout the social sciences [...]

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Book Review: Rethinking the Informal City

Monday, December 20, 2010

Hernandez, F., Kellett, P. and Allan, L. (eds.) Rethinking the Informal City: Critical Perspectives from Latin America. 2010. Oxford: Berghahn Books. 240 pp. ISBN 978-1-84545-582-8
Reviewed by Melanie Lombard, Global Urban Research Centre, University of Manchester (UK)

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The authors of this edited volume make a worthwhile and timely contribution to the field of Latin [...]

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Book Review: Modernism and the Marketplace

Friday, August 13, 2010

Alissa G. Karl. Modernism and the Marketplace: Literary Culture and Consumer Capitalism in Rhys, Woolf, Stein, and Nella Larsen. 2009. New York: Routledge. 183 pp. ISBN: 978-0-415-98141-5
Reviewed by Paul Crosthwaite, English Literature Research Group, Cardiff University (UK)
This outstanding study explores the engagement of Anglo-American women writers of the modernist period with a global capitalist system [...]

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Book Review: A Construção do Lugar pela Arte Contemporânea

Thursday, August 12, 2010

Marta Traquino, A Construção do Lugar pela Arte Contemporânea [The Construction of Place in Contemporary Art]. 2010. Ribeirão, Portugal: Húmus Editions. 172 pp. ISBN: 9789898139320
Reviewed by Andrea Mubi Brighenti, Department of Sociology, University of Trento (IT)

“Marching Piece” performance by George Maciunas. Flux Snow Event, New Marlborough (Massachusetts), 1977.
Contemporary artworks have addressed space in a variety [...]

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Book Review: Here is Tijuana!

Thursday, July 15, 2010

Fiamma Montezemolo, René Peralta and Heriberto Yepez. 2006. Here is Tijuana! London: BlackDog Publishing. 192 pp. ISBN: 978 1 904772 45
Reviewed by Nurri Kim, Do Projects
My first significant personal exposure to Mexican culture (and Mexican people) was after I moved to the United States in 2003. As a Korean educated in Japan, and with no [...]

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