Monthly Archive for October, 2011

Editing Services Now Available

Published on October 31, 2011 in Journal and Newsletter. 0 Comments

Spaces and Flows: An International Journal of Urban and ExtraUrban Studies is pleased to offer editing services for authors who would like to have their work professionally edited. The services offered can help authors at the point of initial submission or during the revision stage, before the final submission of their paper.

The editing process

  1. Email journals@spacesandflows.com to express your interest in having your paper edited.
  2. The Commissioning Editor of the Journal will review your paper and provide you with a quote.
  3. Once you accept the quote, the Commissioning Editor will assign a copyeditor to your paper.
  4. Within 7-14 business days of your confirmed payment, you will receive a copy of your edited paper via email.

Disclaimer

Please note that this service is not mandatory for publication in a Common Ground journal. Using this service does not guarantee acceptance for publication, nor are you obliged to submit your edited manuscript to a Common Ground journal.

Request More Information

For more information or to request a quote, please email journals@spacesandflows.com.

Call for Book Reviewers

Published on October 27, 2011 in Book and Newsletter. 0 Comments Tags: .

Common Ground Publishing is seeking distinguished peer reviewers to evaluate book manuscripts submitted to the Spaces and Flows Book Series.

As part of our commitment to intellectual excellence and a rigorous review process, Common Ground sends book manuscripts that have received initial editorial approval to peer reviewers to further evaluate and provide constructive feedback. The comments and guidance that these reviewers supply is invaluable to our authors and an essential part of the publication process.

Common Ground recognizes the important role of referees by acknowledging book reviewers as members of the Spaces and Flows Book Series Editorial Review Board for a period of at least one year. The list of members of the Editorial Review Board will be posted on our website. In addition, Common Ground also offers a US$200 voucher for each completed review which meets the standards set out by the Commissioning Editor at the commencement of assignment. Vouchers may be used in the Common Ground Bookstore or for registration at one of our international conferences.

If you would like to referee book manuscripts submitted to Spaces and Flows please email:

  1. a brief description of your professional credentials
  2. a list of your areas of interest and expertise
  3. a copy of your CV with current contact details

If we feel you are qualified and we require refereeing for manuscripts within your purview, we will contact you.

The Case Against Economic Disaster Porn

Published on October 9, 2011 in News and Newsletter. 0 Comments

From Noreen Malone at The New Republic…

When I sat down to my keyboard recently to Google the city of Detroit, the fourth hit was a site titled “the fabulous ruins of Detroit.” The site—itself a bit of a relic, with a design seemingly untouched since the 1990s—showed up in the results above the airport, above the Red Wings or the Pistons, the newspapers, or any other sort of civic utility. Certainly above anything related to the car industry, for which the word Detroit was once practically a synonym. Pictures of ruins are now the city’s most eagerly received manufactured good.

We have begun to think of Detroit as a still-life. This became clear to me recently, when the latest set of “stunning” pictures of Detroit in ruins made the rounds, taken by Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre for a book, The Ruins of Detroit. They were much tweeted and blogged about (including by TNR’s own Jonathan Chait), as other such “ruin porn” photosets of blighted places have been, and were described variously as wonderful, as beautiful, as stunning, as shocking, as sad. They are all of those things, and so I suppose they are good art. But they are rotten photojournalism. More…