ISSUE 57 | June 2024

Research
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“Transnational Minority Activism in Europe Beyond The Minority Safepack Initiative” by David Smith and Craig Willis
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“Evaluating Citizen Participation in European Cities: From Hard Facts to Soft Competition” by Mikko Rask
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“Rural Renaissance in Slovenia: Enhancing Remote Places Through Placemaking in Polhograjski Dolomiti” by Matej Nikšič and Nina Goršič
Commentary
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“The End of Europe’s Immigration Dream?” by Paul O’Keefe
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“Finding Agency in the Ordinary: Participation in Normality in Helsinki’s Periphery” by Pekka Tuominen
Visual Art
Poetry
Fiction
Nonfiction
Interviews
Book Reviews
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Energy and Power: Germany in the Age of Oil, Atoms, and Climate Change, reviewed by Stephen Milder
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Entangled Emancipation: Women’s Rights in Cold War Germany, reviewed by Jane Freeland
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The Secret Police and the Soviet System: New Archival Investigations, reviewed by Sophia Kalashnikova Horowitz
Campus
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“Teaching Placemaking to Local Communities and Architecture Students” by Aleksandra Đukić, Jelena Maric, and Branislav Antonic
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“Advancing Placemaking Pedagogies” by Tatiana Ruchinskaya, Carlos Smaniotto Costa, Bahanur Nasya, and Dov Winer
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Syllabus: “Exploring Placemaking in Eastern Europe and London Through Travel Writings” by Zsuzsanna Varga
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Syllabus: “Urban Places in Literature: Imagological and Spatial Readings” by Onorina Botezat
Campus Round-Up
Editor’s Pick
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Feminist Perspective on Russia’s War in Ukraine: Hear Our Voices by Maryna Shevtsova (ed.)
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What Does Israel Fear from Palestine? by Raja Shehadeh
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A Fractured North: Facing Dilemmas edited by Erich Kasten, Igor Krupnik, and Gail Fondahl
Cover image: Bouncing Bridge by l’Atelier Zündel Cristea (AZC)
Cover design: Hélène B. Ducros