Mobility Humanities

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.