We are pleased to announce that Mobility Humanities (5.1) is now available at our website. This issue features nine articles, an interview with Brenda S.A. Yeoh, as well as a book review. It also includes a Special Issue section on “Aspirations of Flight,” guest-edited by Weiqiang Lin and Benjamin Linder.
A Review of Urban Mobilities in Literature and Art Activism
Book Review
By.
Eduardo Nunes
Pages.
187 - 192
Date.
31. Jan. 2026
Abstract
Urban Mobilities in Literature and Art Activism, edited by Patricia García and Anna-Leena Toivanen in 2024 as part of Palgrave Macmillan's Literary Urban Studies series, is a volume composed of 14 chapters(including a well-informed and informative "Introduction") authored by 14 different scholars. The book intends to contribute to the humanities turn in mobility studies by examining representations of "(im)mobilities in urban spaces ... in literary narratives as well as in other arts" (1). The result is a very well-structured, cohesive, and eclectic volume that not only benefits the increasing, but still underexplored, dialogue between literary and art studies, on the one hand, and mobility studies, on the other, but may also draw further attention to the relevance of literature and other arts in understanding movement.
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