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Abstract
This two-part article is a comparative analysis of two late twentieth-century works of art: John T. Scott's Ocean Song (1990), an abstract, large-scale public art sculpture in New Orleans, Louisiana in the US, and Sold Down the River (1999), a major, self-portrait-centered painting by the Bristol, UK-based artist Tony Forbes. As outlined in both sections, contemporary artists have produced works that ensure a continuing civic dialogue about, and commemoration of, site-specific histories of enslavement. In examining and placing these two works in their social, political and cultural contexts, the article highlights the role that artists may play in offering pictorial counter-narratives that question "official," often tourist-driven, narratives that tend to romanticize and/or mollify colonial and/or imperial initiatives, including enslavement and other legacies marked by trauma.

Part I:City as image:Women's Political Visualization of Post-Conflict Belfast /Jolene Mairs Dyer --Urban Alienation and Native Americans in The Exiles /Kathleen M. German --Mapping Sarajevo-The City and Its Representations /Joanna Zielińska --Part II:City as mobility:Post-Industrial Cities Under Microscope: Discovering Akron and Northampton /Ahmet Atay --Walking the Geography of Difference /Jay Brower --Cycling in the City: An Actor-Network-Theory Perspective on Urban Practices /Craig L. Engstrom --Part III:City as past:Walking, Sensing and Making Places: A Reflection on Ethnography of Walking in Yokohama and Vancouver /Julia Aoki and Ayaka Yoshimizu --"Ancientizing" the Modern Chinese Cities: (Re)Constructing Space, History, and National Identity /Joy Yang Jiao --Being Walked Through the City: Negotiating Countercultural Memory in San Francisco /Ryan M. Lescure --Part IV: City as relationship:View Over Bristol: Tryers, Creativity and Civic Imaginary /Shawn Sobers, Jonathan Dovey, and Emma Agusita --"You look like Detectives": Alcohol Outreach Nursing as a form of Mobile Care and Clinical Investigation /Martin Whiteford --Strategic Liminality and Trans-regional Mobility: Engaging Diverse City Spaces to Constitute and Negotiate Intersectional Identities of Newfound Class Privilege, Repressed Ethnic Anger, and the (In)visibility of Gay (Male) Life /Eric Aoki.

The creative citizen unbound introduces the concept of 'creative citizenship' to explore the potential of civic-minded creative individuals in the era of social media and in the context of an expanding creative economy. Drawing on the findings of a 30-month study of communities supported by the UK research funding councils, multidisciplinary contributors examine the value and nature of creative citizenship, not only in terms of its contribution to civic life and social capital but also to more contested notions of value, both economic and cultural. This original book will be beneficial to researchers and students across a range of disciplines including media and communication, political science, economics, planning and economic geography, and the creative and performing arts