Contents: ACME, Vol. 6, issue 2, 2007

ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies

Volume 6, Issue 2, 2007

Editors

Rachel Pain, Harald Bauder, Lawrence Berg, David Butz, Caroline Desbiens, Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro, and Sara González

Special Thematic Issue: Media Spaces, Mediated Places

Guest Edited by Jim Craine

Contents:


Editorial:

*The Politics of Indexing and Ranking Academic Journals*	131
The ACME Editorial Collective

Interventions:

“Don’t Use the G-Word”: Kriminalisierung politischer Proteste und kritischer Wissenschaft – und ein paar Anmerkungen zum Umgang mit dem Paragraphen 129a	135
Volker Eick

“Don’t Use the G-Word”: Criminalizing Political Protest and Critical Scholarship – and a Few Notes to the Handling of Paragraph 129a	141
Volker Eick

Special Issue:
*Media Spaces, Mediated Place*s
Guest Edited by Jim Craine

The Medium Has a New Message: Media and Critical Geography	147
Jim Craine

Mediating the Neoliberal Nation: Television in Post-Apartheid South Africa	153
Sarah Ives

Riding the Wheel: Selling American Women Mobility and Geographic Knowledge	174
Christina E. Dando

La Haine: Framing the ‘Urban Outcasts’	211
Amy Siciliano

Re-envisioning the Nation: Film Neorealism and the Postwar Italian Condition	231
Brent J. Piepergerdes

Un-poetically “Man” Dwells	258
Kevin E. McHugh

Of Gog and Magog: The Geopolitical Visions of Jack Chick and Premillennial Dispensationalism	278
Jason Dittmer

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