Liminalities

books for review

2011-02-21T13:16:00.000-05:00

The following books have been received for potential review in Liminalities. Please send a note expressing your interest in completing a review of one of these titles to mlevan at tampabay dot rr dot com.

Satire and Dissent: Interventions in Contemporary Political Debate (by Amber Day)

Adrian Piper: Gender, Race and Embodiment (by John P. Bowles)

From Bourgeois to Boojie: Black Middle-Class Performance (eds. Vershawn Ashanti Young and Bridget Harris Tsemo)

So Much Wasted: Hunger, Performance, and the Morbidity of Resistance (by Patrick Anderson)

La fête-spectacle: Théâtre et rite au Népal (by Gérard Toffin)

Correspondence Course: An Epistolary History of Carolee Schneeman and Her Circle (ed. Kristine Stiles)

The City (new recurring section)

2011-02-21T12:26:00.000-05:00

Call for Papers & Projects
The City (a new recurring section of Liminalities)
Editor, Daniel Makagon (DePaul University)

The aim of this blind, peer-reviewed section of Liminalities is to explore performance and performativity in urban environments.

Possible topics include:

Movement in the city
New urbanism
Performance and public spaces
Performance and urban architecture
Street art and graffiti
Street theater
Theatre cultures
Cinema and the city
Urban decay
Hipsterism
Gentrification
Urban renewal
Branding
The homeless/unhoused
Food cultures
Neighborhoods
Neighborhood festivals
Block parties
Sports in/and the city
Immigration
Globalization
Green Cities
Urban Tourism
Urban public health

The editor anticipates (at least) the following types of submissions: theoretical essays; ethnographic projects; audio, photographic, video, and web-based projects (or any mix thereof) about urban life and cities; and book reviews.

Please send all materials for this section to: Daniel Makagon, dmakagon@depaul.edu

Or by mail to:

Daniel Makagon
The City, Liminalities
College of Communication
DePaul University
1 E Jackson Boulevard
Chicago, IL 60614
USA

The City will be published in all issues (if accepted work is available) as a regular section of Liminalities

issue 6.2 just released

2010-11-03T20:20:00.000-04:00

Issue 6.2 (October 2010) is the 17th issue of Liminalities published since its inception in 2005. We hope to make this blog a more active space in 2011 and beyond.