Special Issue of Urban Studies is now available online

Special issue: Urban friendship networks: Affective negotiations and potentialities of care, Volume: 55, Issue: 3 (February 2018) now available online

Articles

Introduction: Urban friendship networks: Affective negotiations and potentialities of care by Laavanya Kathiravelu and Tim Bunnell. Urban Studies, Vol. 55, Issue 3, pp. 491–504

Friendship fears and communities of convenience in Africa’s urban estuaries: Connection as measure of urban condition by Loren B Landau. Urban Studies, Vol. 55, Issue 3, pp. 505–521

Tentative friendships among low-income migrants in São Paulo’s commercial districts by Megha Amrith. Urban Studies, Vol. 55, Issue 3, pp. 522–537

Friendship networks and encounters in student-migrants’ negotiations of translocal subjectivity by Shanthi Robertson. Urban Studies, Vol. 55, Issue 3, pp. 538–553

Distant friends and intimate strangers: On the perils of friendship in a Malaysian apartment building by Olivia Killias. Urban Studies, Vol. 55, Issue 3, pp. 554–569

Between ‘face’ and ‘faceless’ relationships in China’s public places: Ludic encounters and activity-oriented friendships among middle- and old-aged urbanites in Beijing public parks by Lisa Richaud. Urban Studies, Vol. 55, Issue 3, pp. 570–588

….and many more.

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