Actors and Networks in the Megacity
More, Prachi
Actors and Networks in the Megacity A Literary Analysis of Urban Narratives / Prachi More. - 1 ed. - 1 online resource (1 p.) - Urban Studies . - Urban Studies .
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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.
9783839438343
https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839438343
Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative
Language arts
Electronic books.
Actors and Networks in the Megacity A Literary Analysis of Urban Narratives / Prachi More. - 1 ed. - 1 online resource (1 p.) - Urban Studies . - Urban Studies .
Access copy available to the general public.
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.
9783839438343
https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839438343
Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative
Language arts
Electronic books.