[URBANTH-L]Announcement of "Rhetorics of Place"

[M Wolf-Meyer]

(Please forgive the mass email, but we are trying to publicize our new 
journal issue.  Please pass this on ...)

We are proud to announce the latest issue of Reconstruction: Studies in 
Contemporary Culture (vol.5, no.3), "Rhetorics of Place" at 
http://www.reconstruction.ws
ISSN: 1547- 4348.

This themed issue is edited by Michael Benton, G. Wesley Houp and Melissa 
Purdue.

Included in this issue are:

Editorial:

Michael Benton, "Rhetorics of Place: The Importance of Public Spaces and 
Public Spheres  http://www.reconstruction.ws/053/benton.shtml

Essays:

Joy Ackerman, "A Politics of Place: Reading the Signs at Walden Pond 
http://www.reconstruction.ws/053/ackerman.shtml

David Burley, Pam Jenkins, Joanne Darlington, Brian Azcona, "Loss, 
Attachment, and Place: A Case Study of Grand Isle, Louisiana 
http://www.reconstruction.ws/053/burley.shtml

Patrick Howard, "Nurturing Sense of Place Through the Literature of the 
Bioregion  http://www.reconstruction.ws/053/howard.shtml

Bruce Janz, "Whistler's Fog and the Aesthetics of Place 
http://www.reconstruction.ws/053/janz.shtml

Joy Kennedy, "The Edge of the World 
http://www.reconstruction.ws/053/kennedy.shtml

Michael Kula, "What Have Bagels Got to Do With Midwesternness? 
http://www.reconstruction.ws/053/kula.shtml

John Shelton Lawrence and Marty S. Knepper, "Discovering Your Cinematic 
Cultural Identity http://www.reconstruction.ws/053/lawrence.shtml

Harry Olufunwa, "The Place of Race: Ethnicity, Location and 'Progress' in 
the Fiction of Chinua Achebe and Ralph Ellison 
http://www.reconstruction.ws/053/olufunwa.shtml

Anthony M. Orum, "All the World's A Coffee Shop: Reflections on Place, 
Community and Identity
http://www.reconstruction.ws/053/orum.shtml

Lynda H. Schneekloth and Robert. G. Shibley, "Placemaking: A Democratic 
Project http://www.reconstruction.ws/053/schneekloth.shtml

Review Essays:

Danny Mayer on Ethan Watter's Urban Tribes: A Generation Redefines 
Friendship, Family and Commitment 
http://www.reconstruction.ws/053/mayer.shtml

Matthew Ortoleva on McComiskey and Ryan's City Comp: Identities, Spaces, 
Practices
http://www.reconstruction.ws/053/ortoleva.shtml

Rania Masri on Joel Weishaus' Forest Park: A Journal 
http://www.reconstruction.ws/053/masri.shtml

Christine Cusick on Joel Weishaus' Forest Park: A Journal 
http://www.reconstruction.ws/053/cusick.shtml

Matthew Wolf-Meyer on Cadava and Levy's Cities Without Citizens 
http://www.reconstruction.ws/053/wolfmeyer.shtml

Reviews:

Marilyn Yaquinto on Peter Bondanella's Hollywood Italians: Dagos, Palookas, 
Romeos, Wise Guys, and Sopranos 
http://www.reconstruction.ws/053/yaquinto.shtml

In line with our efforts to foster intellectual community, Reconstruction 
also hosts a message board dedicated to interaction between authors and 
readers, and between readers themselves, hoping to affect a more communal 
approach to, and understanding of, academic journals and intellectual 
thought and action.

Please take the time to participate in this experiment in community.
Additionally, submissions for our future issues are also being actively 
solicited:   http://www.reconstruction.ws/info.htm

Please see editorial guidelines as published on the site for further 
information regarding contributions to Reconstruction.

Reconstruction is a peer-reviewed journal, and indexed in the MLA 
International Bibliography.

We are also currently seeking reviewers: If interested, a short email 
listing qualifications and interests should be mailed to Michael Benton at: 
mdbento at gmail.com

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Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture
http://www.reconstruction.ws


Michael Benton
Humanities Department
Bluegrass Community and Technical College
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