Spaces for Consumption
Miles, Steven. SAGE Publications, 2010. VLeBooks. This book theorizes that a post-industrial transformation is underway in which the citizen’s relationship to the contemporary city is being redefined by consumerism,…
Tag: Theory
The Concept of Place and Sense of Place in Architectural Studies
Najafi, Mina, and Mustafa Kamal Bin Mohd Shariff. International Scholarly and Scientific Research & Innovation 5, no. 8 (2011): 1054-1060. This article provides an interdisciplinary literature review of the seminal…
The Idea of Home: The Architecture of War and Peace
Holdsworth, Pauline, host. IDEAS (podcast). June 16, 2022. This podcast episode provides an introduction to the history and politics of urbicide. Defined as the deliberate “killing” of a city, the term urbicide is…
Social Media Platforms are Failed Cities
Ourednik, André, Mlynář, Jakub, Mutzner, Nico, and Hamed Alavi. Interactions 28, no. 6 (2021): 62–66. Through a comparison of the internet to the typology of the city, this article argues that social media mimics the…
Planetary Urbanization and the ‘Right Against the Urbicidal City.’
Lesutis, Gediminas. Urban Geography 42, no. 8 (2021): 1195-121. This article reconceptualizes planetary urbanization, defined as unsustainable growth of the capitalist city, which violates the spatial justice of other…
Among the Ruins
Berman, Michael. New Internationalist (December 1987). In this article, philosopher Marshall Berman discusses urban blight, not from a scholarly perspective, but from a personal one. He reflects on returning to the…
Peace Ecology: An Emerging Paradigm in Peace Studies
Kyrou, Christos N. International Journal of Peace Studies 12, no. 1 (2007): 73–92. This article proposes the paradigm of Peace Ecology, a theoretical framework for environmental peacebuilding. Kyrou views the current…
Comedy and Tragedy as Two Sides of the Same Coin: Reversal and Incongruity as Sources of Insight
Dadlez, Eva and Lüthi, Daniel. The Journal of Aesthetic Education 52, no. 2 (Summer 2018): 81-94. This article uses literary theory to argue that comedy in fiction can enlighten in the same way as tragedy. Authors Eva…
What Does Peace Literature Do? An Introduction to the Genre and its Criticism
Adolf, Antony. Peace Research 42, no. 1 / 2 (2010): 9-21. This brief introduction to peace literature explains the main tenets and concepts used in the burgeoning field. Author Antony Adolf argues that peace literature…
Speculative Sankofarration: Haunting Black Women in Contemporary Horror Fiction
Brooks, Kinitra D., McGee, Alexis, and Schoellman, Stephanie. Obsidian 42, no. 1 / 2 (2016): 237-248. This article examines how the horror genre in literature treats its black female characters and their trauma. It…