...Yumna Siddiqi; Ashna Ali; Christopher Ian Foster; Supriya M. Nair In his novels Cockroach and Carnival , Rawi Hage explores the varied experiences of postcolonial migrants to the northern city. His protagonists are antiheroes, hustlers who reject the demands of good immigrant citizenship. Theorists...

...Jeddie Sophronius Copyright © 2022 Jeddie Sophronius 2022 [email protected] Jeddie Sophronius City of Smoke September 26, 2019: Jakarta police fire tear gas amid unrest over conservative reforms. Thick smoke conceals the red sky. Tires burn in the streets. every act of abortion...

...Sarah Carson © 2015 Sarah Carson 2015 Sarah Carson What We Do in Vehicle City We live in a world now where anything can happen, in a town too big for just one sister city, street corners so full of possibilities boys spin in circles; their fathers decided this place was not enough...

...Graham Owen Though the flooding of New Orleans was the result of shoddy construction of the city’s levees, the city’s recovery was to be not through enlightened government initiative but by frontier self-reliance, “personal responsibility.” Returning inhabitants, like pioneers, were to homestead...

... York City . New York : Crown , 1997 . Philo Chris . “ Animals, Geography, and the City: Notes on Inclusions and Exclusions .” Animal Geographies: Place, Politics, And Identity In the Nature-culture Borderlands . Ed. Wolch Jennifer R. Emel Jody . London : Verso , 1998...

...Horam Kim © 2017 Horam Kim 2017 Horam Kim Turtlenecks and Tank Tops in the Heart of Kansas City Nobody knows how Mr. O’Brien fell off his roof and broke his leg. Nobody was there to see it happen. He blamed it all on account of an arrowhead stuck in the gutters. The way he told...

...Jennie Lightweis-Goff Within days of the breach of the levees in New Orleans, a second man-made disaster—the “recovery” efforts—began to transform the city’s institutions, leaving many urban partisans afraid that New Orleans would be rebuilt along the model of other, more expensive, less habitable...

...Marguerite Nguyen This article weaves together interviews, cultural studies scholarship, and a personal experience of New Orleans to interpret narratives of Vietnamese Americans in the city pre- and post-Katrina. New Orleans is home to one of the densest concentrations of Vietnamese Americans...

...Elizabeth Mazzolini Comparing the coverage of three recent drug epidemics, the author argues that representations of drug users and producers indicate crises regarding the location of power. Crack in the 1980s and 1990s was seen to exist among users run amok in abandoned inner cities...

... in the context of Italian colonialism in the Horn of Africa. She discusses what it means to claim the city of Rome as one’s own as a black Italian, and places stories of flight and belonging in a global and historical context. This interview was conducted over WhatsApp, transcribed, and translated into English...

...Coco Kanters This article analyzes efforts to institute professionally designed alternative currencies in European cities as acts of creative experimentation. The alternative currency consultants, or “the Money Makers,” experiment profusely with alternative moneys. As such, they have instituted...

..., that the “corrupt” Orleans Levee Board was responsible for the failed levees, that Katrina was such a large storm that it overwhelmed New Orleans, and that New Orleans is a city below sea level. These myths are thought to persist for reasons that include incomplete information, lack of knowledge, and political...

... in the streets of the city. © 2015 Virginia Tech 2015 jazz slavery memory diaspora New Orleans Works Cited Brothers Thomas . 2006 . Louis Armstrong’s New Orleans. New York : Norton . Campanella Richard . 2013 . “ Gentrification and Its Discontents .” NewGeography.com...

... on secularism. Scott was trained as a social historian of France, and her first book was The Glassworkers of Carmaux: French Craftsmen and Political Action in a Nineteenth-Century City . With Louise Tilly she authored Women, Work, and Family . As founding director of Brown University's Pembroke Center...

... Charles . The Bell Curve . New York : Free Press , 1994 . Lavin David Hyllegard David . Changing the Odds . New Haven : Yale UP , 1996 . Mac Donald Heather . “ Downward Mobility: The Failure of Open Admissions at City University .” City Journal ( Summer 1994 ): 10 - 20...

... . Cambridge : Harvard UP , 2000 . Harvey David . “ The Right to the City .” New Left Review 53 ( September/October 2008 ): 23 - 40 . The Invisible Committee . The Coming Insurrection . Los Angeles : Semiotext[e] , 2009 . Lefebvre Henri . Droit à la ville . Paris...

... and emergency rescues from rooftops were not the only impact Katrina had —it​ altered fundamen- tal social contracts in cities such as New Orleans, from public educa- tion to public housing. It also awakened a new activism focused on issues ranging from calls for better levee protection to addressing...

... in an Authorless World.” Times Literary Supplement 17 Jan. 1992 : 7 . Dana Robert , ed. A Community of Writers: Paul Engle and the Iowa Writers' Workshop . Iowa City : U of Iowa P , 1999 . “Eggheads in the Tall Corn.” Newsweek 28 Dec. 1959 : 65 . Engle Paul . Curriculum...

... the city dweller’s feet—sewer systems, railway tunnels, then subways—along with a multiplication of new angles of vision (like the commuter’s view from elevated railways) and new zones of artificial illumination (like railway stations and covered shopping arcades, ancestors of today’s...

...Jeffrey J. Williams © 2007 the minnesota review 2007 Jeffrey J. Williams The Geography of Accumulation: An Interview with David Harvey Geography is not just about maps. David Harvey has shown us the way that capitalism makes and remakes the spaces—especially the cities—we live...