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Actors and Networks in the Megacity: A Literary Analysis of Urban Narratives
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Abstract This study is a concise introduction to Bruno Latour's Actor-Network Theory and its application in a literary analysis of urban narratives of the 21st century. We encounter well-known psycho-geographers such as Iain Sinclair and Sam Miller, and renowned authors, Patrick Neate and Suketu Mehta. Prach... mehr
This study is a concise introduction to Bruno Latour's Actor-Network Theory and its application in a literary analysis of urban narratives of the 21st century. We encounter well-known psycho-geographers such as Iain Sinclair and Sam Miller, and renowned authors, Patrick Neate and Suketu Mehta. Prachi More analyses these authors' accounts of vastly different cities such as London, Delhi, Mumbai, Johannesburg, New York and Tokyo. Are these urban narratives a contemporary solution to documenting an ever-evasive urban reality? If so, how do they embody "matters of concern" as Latour would have put it, laying bare modern-day "actors" and "networks" rather than reporting mere "matters of fact"? These questions are drawn into an inter-disciplinary discussion that addresses concerns and questions of epistemology, the sociology of knowledge as well as urban and documentary studies.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Urbanität; Stadt; Repräsentation; Realismus; Materialismus; Latour, B.; Akteur-Netzwerk-Theorie; Wissensproduktion; Erkenntnistheorie; Erzählung; Literatur
Klassifikation
Literaturwissenschaft, Sprachwissenschaft, Linguistik
Allgemeine Soziologie, Makrosoziologie, spezielle Theorien und Schulen, Entwicklung und Geschichte der Soziologie
Freie Schlagwörter
Documentary; Urban Cities; Global South; Megacity; Documenting Strategy; Narrative; Epistemology; Sociology; General Literature Studies; Urban Studies; Theory of Literature; Literary Studies
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2017
Verlag
transcript Verlag
Erscheinungsort
Bielefeld
Seitenangabe
220 S.
Schriftenreihe
Urban Studies
DOI
https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839438343
ISBN
978-3-8394-3834-3
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
Lizenz
Creative Commons - Namensnennung, Nicht kommerz., Keine Bearbeitung 4.0