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“Urban anthropology or anthropology in the city: Does Lefebvre hold the key to escape this cul-de-sac?” by Horacio Espinosa (2024) | Article

“Urban anthropology or anthropology in the city: Does Lefebvre hold the key to escape this cul-de-sac?” by Horacio Espinosa (2024) | Article

Abstract: “Urban anthropology is a discipline that emerged only with great difficulty. Its origin in the Chicago school of sociology made the discipline dependent upon […]

Horacio Espinosa

Luiz Costa, Raminder Kaur, Louisa Lombard, e Adeline Masquelier

2024
“Black Feminist Ethnography and the Racial Politics of Porter Labor in Ghana” by Laurian R. Bowles (2021) | Article

“Black Feminist Ethnography and the Racial Politics of Porter Labor in Ghana” by Laurian R. Bowles (2021) | Article

Abstract: “Black scholars have long been at the forefront of ethnographic accounts of race and racism. Still, ethnicity rather than race is a preferred valence […]

Laurian R. Bowles

2021
“We are sons of the ghetto, we are sons of immigrants, sons of Cape Verde”: aesthetics, anti-racism, and engagements in Creole rap in Portugal | Article

“We are sons of the ghetto, we are sons of immigrants, sons of Cape Verde”: aesthetics, anti-racism, and engagements in Creole rap in Portugal | Article

Abstract: “Throughout decades, rap music has been central to the construction of an anti-racist discourse in Portugal. With songs denouncing police violence, social exclusion, colonial […]

Otávio Raposo, Pedro Varela, José Alberto Simões & Ricardo Campos

Eduardo Dimitrov

2021
Urban Contexts and Immigrant Organizations: Differences in New York, El Paso, Paris, and Barcelona | Artigo

Urban Contexts and Immigrant Organizations: Differences in New York, El Paso, Paris, and Barcelona | Artigo

Abstract: “This article compares immigrant and ethnic organizations in four major immigrant-receiving cities and reveals substantial variation across these immigrant gateway cities. Using data from […]

Ernesto Castañeda

Katharine M. Donato, Elizabeth Ferris, SAGE Journals

2020
Placebo urban interventions: Observing Smart City narratives in Santiago de Chile

Placebo urban interventions: Observing Smart City narratives in Santiago de Chile

Abstract: “The implementation of the Smart City (SC) model in Santiago, Chile has not heralded any significant interventions in terms of scale, urban impact, amount […]

Paola Jirón, Walter A Imilán, Carlos Lange, Pablo Mansilla

SAGE

2020
GangstaLife: Fusing Urban Ethnography with Netnography in Gang Studies

GangstaLife: Fusing Urban Ethnography with Netnography in Gang Studies

Abstract: “Recent research on street-involved populations has documented their online presence and has highlighted the effects of their online presentations on their lives in the […]

Marta-Marika Urbanik & Robert A. Roks

Qualitative Sociology | Springer

2020
“The smallest mural painted by the biggest spirit” – article

“The smallest mural painted by the biggest spirit” – article

In an article published on the website El Signo Invisible, author Luis Manuel Pimentel discusses the creation of mural Virgen del Valle in Venezuela by […]

Luis Manuel Pimentel

2024
A linguistic study of street art and graffiti in the streets of Porto

A linguistic study of street art and graffiti in the streets of Porto

In article published this year (2024) by Masters student Laura Prikule, from Latvia, the author presents us her experience of learning portuguese via street art […]

Laura Prikule

2024
Erasures, Noises and Tensions in the Public Space in Brazil: Where is the Brazilian Street Art?

Erasures, Noises and Tensions in the Public Space in Brazil: Where is the Brazilian Street Art?

Abstract: “Erasures, Noises and Tensions in the Public Space in Brazil: Where is the Brazilian Street Art? describes the relational dynamics of street art from […]

Glória Diógenes, Alexandre Barbosa Pereira

2020
April 25th × 50 years of writing in the city

April 25th × 50 years of writing in the city

Abstract: “In this article, we aim to revisit one of the privileged places for citizens’ expression – the street and urban public space – based […]

Cristina Pratas Cruzeiro, Ricardo Campos e Cláudia Madeira

2024
“Brazilian Performers go beyond the street: The Queering and Artification of Hip Hop”

“Brazilian Performers go beyond the street: The Queering and Artification of Hip Hop”

Abstract: “In this article we argue that Brazilian hip hop has opened up and become transgressive in terms of commodification practices, spaces of performative occupation […]

Daniela Vieira dos Santos; Derek Pardue

Revista Novos estudos CEBRAP (Centro Brasileiro de Análise e Planejamento)

2023
Art and citizenship: Practices and discourses of young artivists in Portugal

Art and citizenship: Practices and discourses of young artivists in Portugal

Abstract: The literature on youth and political participation has been increasingly paying attention to more alternative and non-institutional forms of engagement by that cohort. The […]

Ricardo Campos

European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology, 11:2

2023
Edgar Pêra’s new toy or the restlessness of the cinema of ideas

Edgar Pêra’s new toy or the restlessness of the cinema of ideas

Abstract: Interview conducted by the author Teresa Lima, with the proposal of “a journey through words that, by being said, construct meanings and through images […]

Teresa Lima

2024
Art, city and communication: cartographic reflections on Mona Hatoum’s maps

Art, city and communication: cartographic reflections on Mona Hatoum’s maps

Abstract: “This article analyzes the cartographic work of the artist Mona Hatoum Roadworks (1985). The hermeneutic analysis tool used articulates the concepts of discursive genres […]

Andressa Carai Monteiro; Herom Vargas

2022
The Coliseu of Porto in the Posters of Cruz Caldas. Fragments of an Imaginary City

The Coliseu of Porto in the Posters of Cruz Caldas. Fragments of an Imaginary City

The preliminary study presented here is part of a collection, analysis and dissemination project that Passeio (the Urban Art and Culture Platform of the Communication […]

Teresa Lima; Helena Pires

Vista - Revista de Cultura Visual

2023
The meaning of working with art and culture: cultural production in contemporary Brazil

The meaning of working with art and culture: cultural production in contemporary Brazil

Resumo: “In this article I develop a sociology of work with art and culture to analyze the cultural producer in recent Brazil, focusing on the […]

André Grillo

Teoria e Cultura - UFJF

2023
An approach to underground music scenes

An approach to underground music scenes

Volume 6 of the KISMIF Conference is now available, dedicated to the theme An approach to underground music scenes, edited by Paula Guerra and Ana […]

Teresa Lima

Paula Guerra & Ana Oliveira

2023
Nocturnal cities: past, present, and future

Nocturnal cities: past, present, and future

Forum Sociológico journal dedicates a special issue to night-time cities, in an edition coordinated by Manuel Garcia-Ruiz, Alejandro Mercado and Jordi Nofre. Here’s a short […]

Manuel Garcia-Ruiz, Alejandro Mercado e Jordi Nofre

Fórum Sociológico

2023
Photographic vagabondage inspired by Disquiet

Photographic vagabondage inspired by Disquiet

Abstract: This project originated with the purpose of envisioning photographs for The Book of Disquiet, exploring the interconnection between literature and geographic space. The photographed […]

José Peral-Seijas

Pessoa Plural, 24 (O./Fall 2023)

2023
Confins – Franco-Brazilian Geography Journal

Confins – Franco-Brazilian Geography Journal

Abstract: Confins is a Franco-Brazilian geography journal dedicated to publishing original articles in French or Portuguese and translations of existing articles. The articles deal, with […]

Departamento de Geografia da USP

2023
Cinema and the city interacting

Cinema and the city interacting

This article seeks to explore the relationship between the activity of film exhibition and the dynamics of transformation of ways of life in the city […]

Ana Carolina Louback Lopes

CIDADES comunidades e territórios

2020
Social sciences, archives and memories: considerations on contemporary urban musical cultures

Social sciences, archives and memories: considerations on contemporary urban musical cultures

Abstract: In recent years, there has been a growing interest in independent self publish editions, and in do-ityourself (DIY) practices of production and distribution. This […]

Pedro Quintela; Paula Guerra

Sociologia: Revista da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto

2017
Fashion and visual language: a semiotic-social analysis of women’s clothing in photographs from the 1920s

Fashion and visual language: a semiotic-social analysis of women’s clothing in photographs from the 1920s

Fashion makes it possible to understand the socio-cultural developments of a given society. It can be seen as a cultural manifestation and as a form […]

Simone Ferreira de Albuquerque; Gláucia Castro Aguiar Pio; Francisco Wellington Borges Gomes

Alfa - Revista de Linguística (S. Jo´se do Rio Preto)

2023
Sensoriality: Building a landscape and sound experience in exhibition spaces

Sensoriality: Building a landscape and sound experience in exhibition spaces

Abstract: The aim of this article is to contribute to the study and better perception of human sound, understanding the spatiality of everyday sounds in […]

Atilio Francisco P Villalta Gazola Barros

2019
Ponto urbe – journal

Ponto urbe – journal

Ponto Urbe is a free, online, multilingual, biannual academic journal organized by the Laboratory of Urban Anthropology (LAbNAU-USP) and linked to the Department of Anthropology […]

Núcleo de Antropologia Urbana - USP

2007-2023
Rua Journal – Urban Studies Laboratory of the Creativity Development Center

Rua Journal – Urban Studies Laboratory of the Creativity Development Center

A multidisciplinary journal about the city, it has been produced annually since 1995. Its main objective is to open up space for approaches from different […]

Revista Rua

Laboratório de Estudos urbanos do Núcleo de Desenvolvimento da Criatividade

1996-2023
Art and culture, hegemony and resistance: a comparative reading of different territories in Lisbon

Art and culture, hegemony and resistance: a comparative reading of different territories in Lisbon

Abstract: In this article, we highlight the importance of art and culture as elements of transformation in the contemporary city. Adopting a critical urban perspective, […]

Ana Estevens; André Carmo

Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia

2023
The city on the move: everyday life, embodied affectivities and topological networks

The city on the move: everyday life, embodied affectivities and topological networks

Abstract: The main question of this article is the following: how to study the spatial dimension of the city and urban life? Before presenting a […]

Alicia Lindón

Inmediaciones de la Comunicación

2017
Cities, Communities and Territories – Journal

Cities, Communities and Territories – Journal

CIDADES, Comunidades e Territórios (Cities, Communities and Territories) is an academic journal in the scientific area of Urban Studies that was established in 2000 by a […]

ISCTE

2000-2023
Todas as artes – revista

Todas as artes – revista

Todas as Artes (All the Arts) is an international scientific journal in digital format whose main objective is to publish works resulting from original research, […]

Paula Guerra; Lígia Dabul.

Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto

2023
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