Toward an Urban Cultural Studies is a call for a new interdisciplinary area of research and teaching. Blending Urban Studies and Cultural Studies, this book grounds readers in the extensive theory of the prolific French philosopher Henri Lefebvre.

The Spanish economic crisis and recent social mobilizations have renewed interest in critically rethinking cultural, social, and political circumstances. Critical readings mark two main loci as the stages of activity: cultural production largely of fringe status, and protests and assemblies in public spaces throughout Spanish cities. Pairing cultural analysis in urban contexts with interdisciplinary approaches to political culture, Jonathan Snyder argues that recent cultural production - including narrative, poetry, photography, theatre, and performance - in Spain grapples with the conditions...

In the decade preceding the recent financial crisis (1998-2008), Madrid became the city with the largest Ecuadorian population outside of Ecuador. This book addresses the interconnections between spatial practices, cultural production, and definitions of citizenship in migration dynamics between Ecuador and Spain.

This book explores how modernity, the urban, and the sacred overlap in fundamental ways in contemporary Spain.

Toward an Urban Cultural Studies is a call for a new interdisciplinary area of research and teaching. Blending Urban Studies and Cultural Studies, this book grounds readers in the extensive theory of the prolific French philosopher Henri Lefebvre.

This book examines Spain's urban centers by unpacking the tensions between how cityscapes inform and are informed by individual gender performances. Grounded in current theoretical perspectives emergent from women's and gender studies as well as spatial theory, contributors analyze recent Spanish literary fiction and visual narratives from the turn of the millennium to the present day. This volume collectively critiques and interrogates the traditional heteronormative politics and economics that have bolstered gender divides in Spanish metropolitan areas. Putting theories by such urban...

This edited volume is a collection of studies focusing on the depiction of the city in twenty-first century Latin American fiction.

This study examines contemporary Spanish dystopian literature and films (in)directly related to the 2008 financial crisis from an urban cultural studies perspective.