In this episode, Gabriel Silvestre, a lecturer in urban planning at Newcastle University in England, and Guillermo Jajamovich, an Adjunct Researcher at the University of Buenos Aires in Argentina, tell the inside story of researching, writing, and publishing their article, “The afterlives of urban megaprojects: Grounding policy models and recirculating knowledge through domestic networks.”  

Introduction to the podcast: 
The authors & their article: 
The article’s focus & purpose 
Writing together: 
Choosing a journal: 
Addressing comments from reviewers: 
Writing for English-language journals: 
Wise advice for fellow authors: 
Authors’ hopes for their article: 
Podcast credits & further information: 

The article was published in 2022, in Volume 40 Issue 7 of Politics & Space.  It is Open Access on the journal’s website, so you can read along: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/23996544221082411

Minor Revisions is a podcast that demystifies the process of writing for academic journals. It is produced by the editors of Politics & Space, an international journal of critical, interdisciplinary research into the political and the spatial. Each episode features authors who tell the ‘behind the curtain’ story of how they developed their article and succeeded in the review process.