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.
III. The Poetics and Politics of Rambling in lain Sinclair''s Hackney, That Rose-Red EmpireSeiten 65 - 112 Download Kapitel (PDF)
IV. Strategies, Spatial Trajectories And Scenography: Micro-Mapping The Megacity In Suketu Mehta''s Maximum CitySeiten 113 - 150 Download Kapitel (PDF)
V. Of Spirals And Capitals: Sam Miller''s Delhi, Adventures In A MegacitySeiten 151 - 180 Download Kapitel (PDF)
