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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... view more
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.... view less
Keywords
urbanity; town; representation; realism; materialism; Latour, B.; actor-network-theory; knowledge production; epistemology; narrative; literature
Classification
Science of Literature, Linguistics
General Sociology, Basic Research, General Concepts and History of Sociology, Sociological Theories
Free Keywords
Documentary; Urban Cities; Global South; Megacity; Documenting Strategy; Narrative; Epistemology; Sociology; General Literature Studies; Urban Studies; Theory of Literature; Literary Studies
Document language
English
Publication Year
2017
Publisher
transcript Verlag
City
Bielefeld
Page/Pages
220 p.
Series
Urban Studies
DOI
https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839438343
ISBN
978-3-8394-3834-3
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0