Forschungsschwerpunkte und Publikationen

Populäre Musik und Stadtdarstellung, Raumidentität, Popkultur, Interkulturalität, Stadtmarketing


Monographien und herausgegebene Werke

• Bottà, G. & Härmänmaa, M. (eds.) (2010): Language and the Scientific Imagination: Proceedings of the 11th Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas (ISSEI), 28 July – 2 August 2008 at the University of Helsinki, Finland. Helsinki: Language Centre of the University of Helsinki. http://blogs.helsinki.fi/issei2008/.
• Bottà, G. (2003, unpublished doctoral dissertation): Ich steh' auf Berlin! Un'Indagine sulla Città, l’Individuo ed il Testo nella Scrittura Berlinese degli Anni Novanta (Ich steh' auf Berlin! A Survey of City, Individual and Text in Berlin Prose of the 1990s). Milano. Libera Università di Lingue e Comunicazione IULM. 228 pp. (in Italian).

Wissenschaftliche Artikel und Beiträge

• Bottà, G. (2011 forthcoming): Suomen Ainoa Arabialainen Ranta (Arabianranta: the Only Arabian Beach in Helsinki). In: Urbaani Luovuus (Urban Creativity), Various Eds. (Helsinki: Metropolia University of Applied Sciences) (in Finnish).
• Bottà, G. (2010): Russendisko: Berlin as Intercultural City and the New Russians. In: Perspectives on Identity, Migration, and Displacement, Eds. De Totosy Zepetnek S, I-Chun W., and Hsiao-Yu S. (Kaohsiung: National Sun Yat-sen U, Humanities and Social Sciences Series).
• Bottà, G. (2010): And They're Sitting on Thousands of Bodies! Popular Music, City and Media. In: Culture and the City, Eds. Eckardt F. & Nyström L. (Berlin: Berliner Wissenschaftsverlag), 43-57.
• Bottà, G. (2009): Discotheque (headword). In: Encyclopedia of Urban Studies, Ed.  Hutchison, R. (Thousand Oaks CA: Sage), 221-223.
• Bottà, G. (2009): The City that was Creative and Did Not Know: Manchester, Pop Music and Cultural Sensibility. The European Journal of Cultural Studies 3, 349-365. Also in: Brand-building. The creative city. A critical look at current concepts and practices, Ed. Vicari Haddock, S. (Firenze: Firenze University Press), 95-111.
• Bottà G. (2009): Ourvision: Populaarimusiikki, arki ja kulttuurienväliset kokemukset Helsingissä (Ourvision: popular music, everyday and intercultural practices in Helsinki). In: Maahanmuuttajat kulttuuripalveluiden käyttäjinä, Ed. Joronen, T. (Helsinki: Helsingin kaupungin tietokeskus), 171-181 (in Finnish).
• Bottà, G. (2008) 'Urban Creativity and Popular Music in Europe since the 1970ies' in: Creative Cultural Milieus, Eds. Hessler, M. and Zimmermann, C. (Frankfurt and New York: Campus Verlag and Chicago: Chicago University Press), 285-308.
• Bottà, G. (2007): Transiti Urbani. Rappresentazioni Letterarie della Mobilità a Helsinki e Berlino (Urban Transits. Literary Representations of Mobility in Helsinki and Berlin). Settentrione - Rivista di Studi Italo-Finlandesi 19, 43-51 (in Italian).
• Bottà, G. (2006): Interculturalism and New Russians in Berlin. CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 2: 8, 12 pp.
• Bottà, G. (2006): All the Way from Berlin to Helsinki: Three Modes of Urban Representation in Literature. UrbEUROPE Working Papers 2, 21 pp.
• Bottà, G. and Harris, H. (2006): Urbaani Italia ja näkkymätömät kaupungit (Urban Italy and the Invisible Cities). Yhdyskuntasuunnittelu 3: 44, 52-57 (in Finnish).
• Bottà, G. (2004): Concrete Jungle: Literatur og Urbanitet i Berlin efter 1989 (Concrete Jungle: Literature and Urbanity in Berlin after 1989). Manus, Institut for Kunst- og Kulturvidenskab, Københavns Universitet, Saernummer, 40-43 (In Danish). 

Veröffentlichte Konferenzbeiträge

• Bottà, G. (2010): Helsinki Books. In: The European Mind: Narrative and Identity, Ed. Frendo H. (Malta: Malta University Press, 2010).
• Bottà, G. (2010): Nordic Oddity: Putting Helsinki on the City-Break Map. In: Language and the Scientific Imagination: Proceedings of the 11th Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas (ISSEI), 28 July – 2 August 2008 at the University of Helsinki, Finland, Eds. Bottà, G. & Härmänmaa, M. (Helsinki: Language Centre of the University of Helsinki), 9 pp.
• Bottà, G. (2007): Popular Music and Manchester: Representation, Materiality and Branding. In: Research and Activism, Ed. Del Rio, L. (Tallinn: Eesti Kunstiakadeemia), 63-67.
• Bottà, G. (2007): Pop Music, Cultural Sensibilities and Places: Manchester 1976–1997. In: ESF-LiU Conference. Cities and Media: Cultural Perspectives on Urban Identities in a Mediatized World Vadstena, Sweden, 25–29 October 2006, Ed. Fornäs, J. (Linköping: Linköping University E-Press) http://www.ep.liu.se/ecp/020/, 121-125.

Rezensionen

• Bottà, G. (2011): Cultural Capitals: Early Modern London and Paris. By Karen Newman (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press).
• Bottà G. (2009): Sound and the City by Dietrich Helms and Thomas Phleps (2007). Lied und populäre Kultur / Song and Popular Culture 54, 442–443.
• Bottà G. (2009): Cultural Diversity in the Urban Area by Ursula Hemetek and Adelaida Reyes (2006). Lied und populäre Kultur / Song and Popular Culture 54, 342–343.
• Bottà G. (2007): Decline, Renewal and the City in Popular Music Culture: Beyond the Beatles by Sarah Cohen (2007). Lied und populäre Kultur / Song and Popular Culture 52, 197–199 (in German).
• Bottà, G. (2003): Berlin Alexanderplatz. Yhdyskuntasuunnittelu 4: 41, 91–92.
• Bottà, G. (2003): Silvia Ballestra: Il Compleanno dell'Iguana e Isabella Santacroce: Destroy. Argo. Rivista d’esplorazione (in Italian). 

Weitere Artikel

• Bottà, G. (2008): Scene di gioco di classe a Williamsburg e Prenzlauer Berg. Argo Rivista d’esplorazione 14 (in Italian).
• Bottà, G. (2007): L'araba fenice della storia tedesca: il nudismo. Argo. Rivista d'esplorazione 13 (in Italian).
• Bottà, G. (2007): On the Dole. Argo. Rivista d'esplorazione 12 (in Italian).
• Bottà, G. (2006): We Hardly Ever Sleep. Aria – Magazine for Travellers 4 (in Italian).
• Bottà, G. (2006): Squared Rock Café. Aria – Magazine for Travellers 3 (in Italian).
• Bottà, G. (2006): Manchster/madchester: La Follia di una Città. Argo. Rivista d’esplorazione 11 (in Italian).
• Bottà, G. (2005): Book and the City. Kajahdus 3.
• Bottà, G. (2002): Fascinazione per il Mito Americano in Germania negli Anni Sessanta. Argo. Rivista d'esplorazione (in Italian).
• Bottà, G. (2002): A Berlino. La Nuova Scena Letteraria Tedesca e l’Impegno Politico. Argo. Rivista d’esplorazione 5 (in Italian).