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Actors and Networks in the Megacity

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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-geogra...
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  • 27 October 2017
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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.
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Price: $40.00
Pages: 220
Publisher: transcript publishing
Imprint: transcript publishing
Series: Urban Studies
Publication Date: 27 October 2017
Trim Size: 8.86 X 5.83 in
ISBN: 9783837638349
Format: Paperback
BISACs: LITERARY CRITICISM / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory
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Prachi More (PhD) taught at the English Studies Department at the University of Tubingen, Germany. Her research interests include New Materialisms, Smart Cities and Weird Fiction.

Frontmatter 1
Table Of Contents 5
List Of Illustrations 7
Acknowledgement 9
Introduction: Urban Narratives And Bruno Latour's Empiricism 11
I. Contextualizing Contemporary Urban Narratives As Literary Documentary 21
II. Bruno Latour's 'New Empiricism' 37
III. The Poetics and Politics of Rambling in lain Sinclair's Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire 65
IV. Strategies, Spatial Trajectories And Scenography: Micro-Mapping The Megacity In Suketu Mehta's Maximum City 113
V. Of Spirals And Capitals: Sam Miller's Delhi, Adventures In A Megacity 151
Conclusion: Actor-Network Theory And Literary Criticism 181
Works Cited 199