Publications
Urban Mobilities in Literature and Art Activism
Edited by Patricia García and Anna-Lena Toivanen (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)
This book explores the entwinement of mobility and immobility in urban spaces by focusing on their representation in literary narratives but also in visual and performing arts. Across a range of geographical contexts, it builds on the new mobilities paradigm developed by literary scholars, sociologists and human geographers. The different chapters employ a cohesive framework that is sensitive to the intersecting dimensions of power and discrimination that shape urban kinetic features. The contributions are divided into three sections, each of which places the focus on a different aspect of urban mobility: Itinerant Subjects, Modes of Transport and Places of Transit, and Urban Liminalities.
https://link.springer.com/book/9783031427978
Imaginarios subterráneos en literaturas hispánicas (1975-2025)
Edited by Albert Jornet and Anna Boccuti (Special Issue, Pasavento, Vol. 2.2, 2024, OA)
"En este monográfico, y en consonancia con el congreso internacional sobre Underground Imaginaries que organizó la red de investigadores Fringe Urban Narratives en 2023 en la Universidad de Alcalá, hemos querido abordar los modos de interrogación del espacio subterráneo que se han dado en el último medio siglo en el ámbito hispánico a través de lo literario. Para ello nos hemos querido formular algunas preguntas, como: ¿qué espacios subterráneos son paradigmáticos, problemáticos o cargados de potencialidad para las vidas y las culturas actuales en distintos contextos hispánicos? ¿Qué epistemologías, afectos y memorias convocan? ¿A qué prácticas invitan y qué representaciones los dramatizan? En el recorrido que ofrecen los artículos que lo componen, este monográfico deja traslucir un nuevo marco de inteligibilidad en el que el subsuelo deja atrás los paradigmas cosmogónicos, religiosos y científicos a la vez que los subsume, y que podemos entender como un fenómeno de politización sensible de lo subterráneo." https://erevistas.publicaciones.uah.es/ojs/index.php/pasavento/issue/view/196
Urban Undergrounds: Contemporary Literary and Cultural Perspectives
Edited by Patricia García and David Pike (Routledge 2025)
Research in urban development in the social sciences has increasingly emphasized the importance of underground infrastructure for envisaging sustainable cities and for critiquing the economies of extraction. Urban Undergrounds: Contemporary Literary and Cultural Perspectives demonstrates the urgency of integrating a below-ground perspective into the emerging field of urban humanities.
The collection is divided into three thematic sections that cluster and revisit different sets of well-known motifs in underground studies: “Displaced”, “Wasted” and “Buried.” It showcases the intermedial nature of underground-focused analyses in literature, extending from literary texts to a wider range of cultural forms, including films, graphic novels and videogames. The contributors build on recent scholarship that has expanded the field into new interdisciplinary areas, including intersections with memory studies, ecocriticism and decolonial perspectives. Urban Undergrounds also explores lesser-studied subterranes, including Warsaw, Athens, Mexico City, Johannesburg and Santiago de Chile. The book’s substantial introduction offers a guiding theoretical and methodological framework for future scholars working with underground perspectives in literary and cultural studies. [...]
