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lo Squaderno is an independent academic journal that publishes original short features on space, power & society. Since 2006, three issues per year. Available as CreativeCommons. www.losquaderno.net
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New book
Robin Hickman @ucl.ac.uk
"Discourses on Sustainable Urban Mobility"
A debate to automobility, seeking a new normal in urban planning
With case studies on Oxford, Freiburg, Singapore, Bogotá (cover), Houten, Chongqing, London ++
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Discourses on Sustainable Urban Mobility
Achieving sustainable transport systems and travel behaviours is proving problematic in many cities, including contestation over strategies and projects. Discourses on Sustainable Urban Mobility chall...
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November 12, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Call for papers for our new special issue on 'Nocturnal London', edited by Maurizio Cinquegrani, Yihong Zhu, and @mcmccluskey.bsky.social. Abstracts due in by 31 March 2026.

All submissions and reposts much appreciated.
Nocturnal London: From Torches to Neon Signs in a City After Dark Edited by Maurizio Cinquegrani, Yihong Zhu and Michael McCluskey The editors of this special issue, Maurizio Cinquegrani, Yihong Zhu and Michael McCluskey invite submissions on the theme of London nights. This volume of the London Journal will examine the histories of the city after dark, from its origins in Roman London to the present. Often overlooked, night has long been an essential dimension of urban life: as the city’s appearance change in the lightening of torches, oil lamps, gaslight, incendiary bombs and neon signs, nocturnal imagery, sounds, smells and professions – legal and not legal – emerge from the darkness. For Londoners, the night was never simply the absence of day; it was a time of danger, sociability, and creativity; a theatre of crime and vice, but also of performance, work, and pleasure. The special issue will place particular emphasis on moments when the character of London’s nights was especially contested, including – but not limited to – the Elizabethan, the eighteenth century, the Victorian, the wartime and the postwar city. The Elizabethan period witnessed the emergence of the city’s playhouses, taverns, and nocturnal entertainments, alongside concerns about disorder and moral decline. Eighteenth-century coffee-houses and club meetings reflected the nocturnal city’s uneasy mix of polite sociability and transgressive undercurrents, while pleasure gardens flourished as spaces of spectacle, employment, cross-class mingling, and erotic charge under cover of darkness. In the Victorian era, the introduction of gaslight transformed both the material and imaginative experience of the night, making the city’s streets newly navigable while also exposing poverty, vice, and vulnerability to the gaze of reformers, police, photographers, and journalists. Wartime London, by contrast, was marked by darkness and silence imposed from above: the blackout and the Blitz remade the urban night as a zone of danger, solidarity, and belonging. The postwar decades, and especially the 1960s, brought the era of Swinging London, in which nightlife became emblematic of youth, fashion, music, and cultural revolution. Equally important are the particular districts that have defined London’s reputation after dark, including – but again not limited to – the West End and the East End. The East End has been imagined as a zone of poverty, danger, and cultural resilience, alive with street-level economies that flourished under cover of night. The West End has long been associated with theatres, clubs, and the rituals of fashionable display. Soho, especially in the twentieth century, became a microcosm of cosmopolitanism, transgression, and reinvention, providing a home for migrants, artists, musicians, and London’s gay community, who together redefined the possibilities of nocturnal sociability. Beyond districts and periods, we also invite reflections on the people who navigated, transformed, and reimagined the nocturnal city. The editors are especially keen to foreground questions of diversity and difference. How have London’s nights been inhabited, shaped, and contested by women, by queer citizens, by migrants and racialised communities, and by those whose working lives were tied to the hours of darkness? How was night both policed and celebrated? How did nocturnal spaces serve as arenas of negotiation between surveillance and resistance, authority and anonymity, privilege and precarity? How have representations in literature, theatre, music, art, and film contributed to the cultural meanings of the nocturnal city? We welcome submissions from across the disciplines, including history, literary and cultural studies, art history, archaeology, urban geography, sociology, performance and media studies, as well as ecology, environmental humanities, and architecture and urbanism. Interdisciplinary approaches are encouraged, as are contributions that combine archival research with theoretical or methodological innovation. Abstracts of 300–400 words, accompanied by a short biographical statement, should be submitted by 31 March 2026. Full-length articles will be in the range of 6,000–8,000 words and are due by 31 March 2027. Please send proposals and queries to Maurizio Cinquegrani, Yihong Zhu, and Michael McCluskey (m.cinquegrani@kent.ac.uk, scarlett.zhu24@gmail.com, and m.mccluskey@northeastern.edu) with the subject line Nocturnal London Special Issue.
November 20, 2025 at 11:18 AM
losquaderno.bsky.social
New Directions in Relational Sociology, Volume Two
Relations All the Way Down
link.springer.com/book/9783032024138
January 9, 2026 at 10:20 AM
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@michelbestaat.thereforeiam.eu

"command always indicates a fateful reality, then resistance cannot but appear as the preposterous and yet necessary attempt to evade the fate"

'Elias Canetti and Social Theory' by Andrea Mubi Brighenti
September 14, 2024 at 2:28 PM
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New Online 1st Article “Terrestrial territories: From the Globe to Gaia, a new ground for territory” by Alexis Gonin, Jeanne Etelain, Patrice Maniglier, Andrea Mubi Brighenti

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Terrestrial territories: From the Globe to Gaia, a new ground for territory - Alexis Gonin, Jeanne Etelain, Patrice Maniglier, Andrea Mubi Brighenti, 2024
Territory is a central tool for analysing the politics, primarily between nation-states, of the division of a world based on the figure of the Globe. However, w...
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April 1, 2024 at 1:01 PM
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The Lisbon Early-Career Workshop in Urban Studies
The 5th edition of The Lisbon Early-Career Workshop in Urban Studies will take place at the Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa, from 26 to 28 november. The event is organized by t...
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November 17, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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lo Squaderno 72 OUT NOW – New Beginnings – Check it out at www.losquaderno.net?p=2529
lo Squaderno no. 72 | New Beginnings «
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November 17, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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📝 CALL FOR PROPOSALS 📖

Understanding Marronage: Critical & Cross-Disciplinary Engagements

Seeking contributions that broaden understanding of marronage as a vibrant historical act and a robust theoretical device informing the black radical tradition.

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November 17, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Par une telle journée 🥵, je déclare la "Revolution" & ouverte l'ère de Greentea Peng - sans fermeture possible
& dire que ce conseil de bon sens n'est même pas sur www.vivre-avec-la-chaleur.fr ... 🤷
Greentea Peng - Revolution (Official Video)
YouTube video by GreenteaPengVEVO
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August 10, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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lo Squaderno no. 71 | Junk «
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August 8, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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Call for Papers – New Beginnings – www.losquaderno.net?page_id=2190
no. 72, November 2025 «
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July 11, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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New paper with Nicolas Puig in The Senses & Society: Towards a sonic ecology of urban life: Ethnography of sound perceptions in Cairo. All data in open access.

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November 24, 2024 at 5:36 PM
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The city of shades: Ethnography of urban habitability in times of climate mutation

17-21.06.24 @ Open University of Catalonia, Barcelona

Co-creation workshop curated by Tomás Criado (UOC) & 
Santiago Orrego (HU Berlin)

Activity part of Setmanes d’Arquitectura 2024
+info umbrology.org/bcn2024/
On the left side of the poster there is a photo of the shadow of a palm tree and two people on the sand of the beach. In the rest of the poster, the information on the "City of Shadows" workshop appears superimposed, with the logos of the different participating entities.
May 3, 2024 at 12:10 AM
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✨Now available in paperback and ebook✨
📘'Suturing the City: Living Together in Congo’s Urban Worlds', Filip De Boeck, Sammy Baloji

📖 Look inside and read the preface: lup.be/look-inside-...

#Congo #Kinshasa #ethnography #photography
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March 25, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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lo Squaderno no. 70 | Alliances and Urban Precarity «
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May 31, 2025 at 6:15 AM
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lo Squaderno no. 69 | Station to Station «
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March 13, 2025 at 7:44 AM