Visual Studies, Volume 39, Issue 1-2 (2024)

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Imagining the City

Editorial

Editorial
Imagining the city
Gary Bratchford, John Grady, Julie Patarin-Jossec, Kate Korroch & Susan Hansen
Pages: 1-4
Published online: 01 Mar 2024
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Picture/Talk

Pictorial Work
The baggage of representation: man with a red carrier bag searching for a signal
Jane Brake
Pages: 5-7
Published online: 18 Dec 2023
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Introduction

Introduction
The spectacle of the Chinese city: urban atmospheres, the built environment and everyday practices
Dennis Zuev & Madlen Kobi
Pages: 8-23
Published online: 01 Mar 2024
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Article
Empty homes: filming homeownership in rapidly urbanising China
Willy Sier & Sanderien Verstappen
Pages: 24-32
Published online: 06 Jun 2023
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Beyond the visuality of Western architecture. The Chinese home from inward haven to outward representation
Martin Minost
Pages: 33-46
Published online: 03 Apr 2023
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Visual Essay

Article
Building culture: constructing visual continuity in Hangzhou before G20
Ryan McCaffrey & Kiah Rutz
Pages: 47-59
Published online: 01 Aug 2023
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Article
Visual arts: imagining a shanzhai city in twenty-first century China
Federica Mirra
Pages: 60-72
Published online: 05 Sep 2023
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Affective atmospheres in Macau: from the sublime to the uncanny
Dennis Zuev & Tim Simpson
Pages: 73-86
Published online: 11 Aug 2023
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Visual Essay

Article
Neither spectacular nor ordinary: a visual essay on imaginations and homes in Beijing from 2007 to 2019
Gladys Pak Lei Chong
Pages: 87-99
Published online: 20 Apr 2023
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Building Shanghai in the borderlands: a visual approach to the restructuring of the Uyghur City in Xinjiang
Madlen Kobi
Pages: 100-111
Published online: 04 May 2023
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Picture/Talk

Pictorial Work
Blackboard voices
Luc Pauwels
Pages: 112-113
Published online: 22 Sep 2023
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Introduction

Introduction
Critical visual approaches to understand the complexities and contradictions of the city: introduction to the special issue for Visual Studies
Geoffrey Deverteuil & Brian Doucet
Pages: 114-117
Published online: 01 Mar 2024
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Visual Essay

Pictorial Work
Visibilising gentrification-induced displacement: a visual essay on the role of a socially and politically engaged photographic practice in housing activism
Anita Strasser
Pages: 118-126
Published online: 11 Aug 2023
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Articles

Article
Gentrification and changing visual landscapes: a Google Street View analysis of residential upgrading and class aesthetics in Hamilton’s Lower City
Caleb Babin & Brian Doucet
Pages: 127-143
Published online: 11 Dec 2023
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What is an inclusive city? Reconfiguring participation in planning with geospatial photovoice to unpack experiences of urban belonging among marginalised communities
Sofie Burgos-Thorsen, Sabine Niederer & Anders Koed Madsen
Pages: 144-163
Published online: 16 Oct 2023
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Building internal reputation in stigmatised neighbourhoods: the use of remote participatory photo mapping
Giada Casarin
Pages: 164-183
Published online: 24 Nov 2023
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Urban research in film using walking tours and psychogeographic approaches
Aled Singleton
Pages: 184-195
Published online: 09 Jan 2024
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Visual Essay

Pictorial Work
Juxtaposition and visualising the middle ground in the unequal city
Geoffrey Deverteuil
Pages: 196-204
Published online: 01 Jun 2023
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Afterword

Discussion
The death and life of great visual urbanism
Elvin Wyly
Pages: 205-210
Published online: 01 Mar 2024
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New Media Review

Review Article
Spirit in film: the work of James Ault
Jenn Lindsay
Pages: 211-219
Published online: 13 Jul 2023
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Articles

Article
A study of light pollution discourse in Hong Kong
Yee-Man Lam
Pages: 220-238
Published online: 27 May 2022
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Rebel imaginings: street art in Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Michelle Mansfield, Pam Nilan & Gregorius Ragil Wibawanto
Pages: 239-253
Published online: 03 Aug 2023
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Visual Essay

Article
Prosody: an ode to the city
Taher Abdel-Ghani
Pages: 254-259
Published online: 28 Oct 2022
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Reviews

Book Review
Seeing Cities Change: Local Culture and Class
by Jerome Krase New York: Routledge, 2017, 290 pages ISBN: 978-1-138-11107-3 (paperback)
Michael Ian Borer
Pages: 260-261
Published online: 15 Mar 2022
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The architecture of disability: buildings, cities, and landscapes beyond access
by David Gissen Minneapolis, MN, University of Minnesota, 2022, 224 pages, ISBN: 978-1-5179-1250-5(pb), $100
Kachun Alex Wong
Pages: 261-262
Published online: 23 May 2023
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Book Review
Wake up, this is Joburg
by Tanya Zack and Mark Lewis Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023, 344 pages ISBN: 978-1-4780-1870-4 (paperback) Price: $28.95 USD
Joe Konieczny
Pages: 262-263
Published online: 09 Oct 2023
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