The 2025 fall issue of e.polis, Resistance, Justice, and Belonging in the City, is out. This issue brings together writing on how people contest power and inequality in urban life – and how resistance, collective action, and everyday practices shape justice and belonging in the city.
Read the issue here: https://sites.uwm.edu/epolis/current-issue/
Kudos to all the contributors and the e.polis editorial team. Thanks to Tatiana Danilova (this year’s Production Editor), Yuchen Zhao (last year’s Production Editor), and the rest of the editorial board for putting together a significant issue.
Issue summary:
- Scholar Profile: USP’s newest faculty affiliate, Andrew Kincaid – a literary journey on the meaning of urban space and place.
- Articles:
- Jack Rongstad (USP MS student) on public subsidies in stadium construction in Milwaukee and the discourses surrounding them.
- Jamee N. Pritchard (PhD Candidate, African and African Diaspora Studies) on Nalo Hopkinson’s Brown Girl in the Ring, using liberation psychology to explore speculative fiction as transformative liberation for Black women.
- Best Undergraduate Capstone Paper: Isabella Wineke (Urban Studies BA alumna) on tree canopy disparities across Milwaukee neighborhoods.
- Book review: Derek G. Handley’s Struggle for the City: Citizenship and Resistance in the Black Freedom Movement (reviewed by Russell Star-Lack, MS-MLIS alumnus).