Cities, Volume 28, Issue 4, August 2011, Pages 340-346. Although Spanish-Colonial Revival architecture and place-names dominates Southern California’s landscape, one also finds simulated Middle Eastern bazaars, references to Ancient Egypt, and the frequent use of iconography from the non-European Old World. While the region’s landscape is a product of bricolage and postmodern sensibilities, this article  [ Read More ]

w/ Martin J. Murray. In Fassil Demissie (ed.). 2008. Postcolonial African Cities: Imperial Legacies and Postcolonial Predicament (Routledge, NY). Also in African Identities. Vol. 5. No. 2. August 2007. Oliver Schmitz’s Hijack Stories (2000) is a story of cross-over cultures and mixed genres set in Johannesburg. In this blurring of boundaries, he presents us an  [ Read More ]