Latest Urban Studies news 01/07/24

New issue out now

The July 2024 issue (Volume 61, Issue 9) of Urban Studies Journal is now available online. Read the full issue here. Articles include:

Reimagining hope through the political: A post-foundational reading of urban alternatives beyond postpolitics by Mohamed Saleh Friederike and Landau-Donnelly

In this open access debates paper, Saleh and Landau-Donnelly demonstrate that thinking about hope can cultivate understanding for the ever-present opportunities for political change working to bail us out of an assumed postpolitical condition.

Housing movement coalitions in the United States: Trends from big networks among urban civil society leaders by Andrew Messamore

Throughout this open access article, Messamore shows that cohesive coalitions of formal housing, civil rights and anti-poverty leaders exist in a wide range of US cities, including in conservative states.

Call for Papers

The second call in our Critical and Conceptual Advances in Urban Studies Call for Papers is now open: Urban Imaginations and Urban Futures. Submit your abstract for prioritised assessment by 12 July 2024. The deadline for paper submissions is 25 October 2024.

Please note that the deadline for abstract submission has now passed for Urban Transport as a Social Construct, however we are still accepting paper submissions until 11 October 2024.

New articles 

Customary land management systems and urban planning in peri-urban informal settlements by Herman Geyer

Herman Geyer defines the characteristics, historical development, operative structure, and spatial influence of customary land management systems in peri-urban settlements.

Housing the historical bloc: Civil society contestation of authoritarian neoliberalism in England by Gareth Fearn

This is part of the forthcoming Special Issue: Authoritarian Neoliberal and Illiberal Urbanisms: Towards a Research Agenda.

New open access special issue paper by Gareth Fearn analyses how authoritarian practices, statist and populist, are derived from the administrative and legitimation crises that followed the financial crash of 2007/8.

New book reviews

Review essay: Recent books on urban India reviewed by Michiel Baas

“As Srivastava’s latest book underscores once more, men’s presence and the way they make themselves felt in public space stands in relation to and is in conversation with the urban contexts they inhabit, navigate and negotiate.”

Book review: Urban Surfaces, Graffiti, and the Right to the City: Space, Materiality and the Normative reviewed by Tim Cresswell

“Andron’s book is a treasure. It turns out not to be just another book about graffiti but, rather, a meditation on urban surfaces.”

Read more book reviews here.