Urbanities Volume 6, Number 2, November 16, 2016

Urbanities is an open-access peer-reviewed international academic journal launched in 2011. It is published on-line twice a year, in May and in November, by ildenaro.it in association with the International Urban Symposium (IUS) and the Commission on Urban Anthropology (CUA).

Table of Contents

  • “Anglo-Indian Returnees: Reverse Migration to Goa,” Robyn Andrews 
  • “Faith, Space and Selfhood in Est London ‘Youth Gang’ Culture,” Gary Armstrong and James Rosbrook-Thompson
  • “How the Crisis Helped Informality Re-enter the Temple: A New Sicilian Custom,” Marcello Mollica 
  • “Experiments in Civil Society in Post-war Urban Sicily: Danilo Dolci and the Case of Partinico 1955-1978,” Peter Jones 
  • “‘You Want to East Pizza with your Feet on the Table’:Dropping Out of School in Spain in the Context of the Financial Crisis,” Margarita delOlmo and Patricia Mata-Benito
  • “Commons vs Commodity: Urban Environmentalisms and the Transforming Tale of the East Kolkata Wetlands,” Jenia Mukherjee and Gorky Chakraborty

Conference Reports

  • “Purposeful Agency and Governance: A Bridgeable Gap,” Italo Pardo and Giuliana B. Prato
  • “Understanding the Postcolonial City: New Directions for Urban Research,” Hemangini Gupta

Book Reviews

  • Ethan N. Elkind (2014).Railtown: The Fight for the Los Angeles Metro Rail and the Future of the City. Berkeley: University of California Press. Fernando Mong
  • Fabien Frenzel and Ko Koens (eds) (2015).Tourism and Geographies of Inequality. The New Global Slumming Phenomenon. London: Routledge. Kelly McNeal
  • Matthew Gandy (2014).The Fabric of Space: Water, Modernity,and the Urban Imagination. Cambridge: MIT Press. Michel Rautenberg
  • Susannah Hagan (2015).Ecological Urbanism:The Nature of the City. NewYork: Routledge. Subhadra Channa
  • Tone Huse (2014).Everyday Life in the Gentrifying City:On Displacement, Ethnic Privileging and the Right to Stay Put. Farnham: Ashgate. Sweta Banerjee
  • Ian Lindsay (2014)Living with London Olympics: An Ethnography. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Giovanni Spissu

Film Reviews

  • Solaris. Directed by Pavel Borecký. (2015). 25 minutes. Colour. Distributed by Baltic Film and Media School, Tallinn University. Delyan Lyutskanov
  • Passinho Dance-Off. Directed by Emílio Domingos. (2013). 73 minutes. Colour. Osmose Filmes. Helaine Christian Alves Santos
  • The Bastard Sings the Sweetest Song. Directed by Christy Garland. (2012). 90 min, Colour. Produced by Chris Bennett and Christy Garland. Milena Belloni and Federica Setti
  • Behind The Screen. Directed by Aung Nwai Htway. (2012). 35mins. Colour. Distributed by Yangon Film School. Timothy P.A. Cooper
  • Tyres. Directed by Kyaw Myo Lwin. (2013). 33 minutes, B&W and Colour. Distributed by Yangon Film School. Freek Colombijn
  • Power to the Pedals: Wenzday Jane and the Culture of Change. Directed by Bob Nesson. 2016. 32 min, Colour. Distributed by Documentary Educational Resources. DVD. Ignacio Fradejas García and Jabir Lund

Contact Info: Jerome Krase, CoEditor Urbanities: jkrase[at]brooklyn.cuny.edu