This article investigates the role of music in presidential election campaigns and political movements inspired by theoretical arguments Henri Lefebvre’s Rhythmanalysis, John Dewey ́s pragmatist rethinking aesthetics existing scholarship on politics music. Specifically, it explores how musical rhythms melodies enable new forms awareness, participation, critique an increasingly polarized B...

This article is concerned with the relationship of language and city in Amir Naderi’s trilogy of films on New York, comprising of Manhattan by Numbers (1993), A, B, C… Manhattan (1997), and Marathon (2002). By dint of a narrative relied on spatiality, he is in fact able to causally link the solitude and the spectral existence of his protagonists to the lack of a common language for reco...

In Kevin Lynch's (1960) classic formulation of the image city, he asks us to think about urban environments as a series topographic registers on landscape, from monuments mountains, paths edges, nodes, and junctions. There is human element this vision, with its concentrations convergences in social space; hangout value street corner or how cut railway marks off cultural district. However, these...

Rhythmicity provides a conceptual framework to help address several challenges facing river conservation and water allocation dilemmas. By emphasizing relationality, it serves (a) move beyond biophysical framing of human-nature connectedness by demonstrating that dynamic processes relationships are constitutive rivers, not derivative them; (b) enhance understanding how the temporal dimensions r...

The contemporary African city runs on informal modes of public transportation. Typically, minibuses provide the core, but motorbikes, tricycles, and shared taxis all contribute to transport ecosystems. These privately operated services are ground-level responses growing demand for mobility in face absent or inadequate formal transportation services. For many urbanites, it is impossible imagine ...