(NAME-MCE) CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS FOR A SPECIAL ISSUE

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS FOR A SPECIAL ISSUE   
Teaching the  City
The editors of Transformations seek articles (5,000 –  10,000 words) and 
media reviews (books, film, video, performance, art, music,  etc. – 3,000 to 5,000 
words) that explore the city in a variety of  pedagogical contexts and 
disciplinary perspectives—literature, women’s and  gender studies, urban studies, 
architecture, anthropology, folklore, history,  psychology, sociology, art, 
photography, geography, religion, working-class  studies, ethnic studies, 
cultural studies, science, and others. Essays should  raise questions concerning, for 
 example,  
Topics might  include: defining urban spaces; gendering the city; the history 
and interpretation of public spaces;  global and transnational contexts and 
issues; racism, classism, and sexism in  the construction and representation of 
cities; the politics of urban education;  economics and gentrification; urban 
violence; environmental education;  communities and cultural identities; 
architecture and urban planning; public  history in/and the city; urban geography; 
suburbia and small cities;  representations of the city in literature, 
visual, and popular culture;  im/migration and transnational labor; teaching the 
city in K-12 and higher  education. 
Send a hard copy in MLA format (6th ed.): Jacqueline Ellis and  Edvige 
Giunta, Editors, Transformations, New Jersey City University, Hepburn Hall Room 309, 
2039 Kennedy Boulevard,  Jersey City, NJ 07305 OR email submissions and 
inquiries to: _transformations at njcu.edu_ (mailto:transformations at njcu.edu) . Email 
submissions should be sent as attachments  in MS Word or Rich Text format.  
For submission guidelines go to _www.njcu.edu/assoc/transformations_ 
(http://www.njcu.edu/assoc/transformations) . 

Published semi-annually by New Jersey City University 
Deadline: 31 October 2007 




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