Researching the city and walking with street dwellers: Recreating urban encounters past and present
The art of recreating cities imaginatively and the critical act of reading urban fiction involve processes of research and learning that often include encounters with specific cities and their dwellers, prompting reflection on the forms and ethics of such encounters. Whether carrying out historical...
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Universitat de Barcelona
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| author | Isabel Carrera Suárez Simone Lazaroo |
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| description | The art of recreating cities imaginatively and the critical act of reading urban fiction involve processes of research and learning that often include encounters with specific cities and their dwellers, prompting reflection on the forms and ethics of such encounters. Whether carrying out historical research into the past or observation of the rapid transformation of contemporary cities, writers and critics often combine the acquisition of documentary and experiential knowledge of urban spaces. Taking two different categories of writing by Simone Lazaroo, on the one hand her texts on past relations between Singapore and Australia, and on the other her current stories on global cities after the Great Financial Crisis, we explore the processes of learning before and through representation, and the ethics of human interaction in the contact zone of the global urban where, increasingly, the world’s expelled have become street-dwellers. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-f07fbc7944d44c73922a77301ac8ff3f2022-12-22T02:58:09ZengUniversitat de BarcelonaCoolabah1988-59461988-59462017-01-01221988-5946101810.1344/co20182219-32Researching the city and walking with street dwellers: Recreating urban encounters past and presentIsabel Carrera Suárez0Simone Lazaroo1University of OviedoMurdoch UniversityThe art of recreating cities imaginatively and the critical act of reading urban fiction involve processes of research and learning that often include encounters with specific cities and their dwellers, prompting reflection on the forms and ethics of such encounters. Whether carrying out historical research into the past or observation of the rapid transformation of contemporary cities, writers and critics often combine the acquisition of documentary and experiential knowledge of urban spaces. Taking two different categories of writing by Simone Lazaroo, on the one hand her texts on past relations between Singapore and Australia, and on the other her current stories on global cities after the Great Financial Crisis, we explore the processes of learning before and through representation, and the ethics of human interaction in the contact zone of the global urban where, increasingly, the world’s expelled have become street-dwellers.http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/18630/21135urban fictionSimone LazarooEurasianexpulsionSassen |
| spellingShingle | Isabel Carrera Suárez Simone Lazaroo Researching the city and walking with street dwellers: Recreating urban encounters past and present Coolabah urban fiction Simone Lazaroo Eurasian expulsion Sassen |
| title | Researching the city and walking with street dwellers: Recreating urban encounters past and present |
| title_full | Researching the city and walking with street dwellers: Recreating urban encounters past and present |
| title_fullStr | Researching the city and walking with street dwellers: Recreating urban encounters past and present |
| title_full_unstemmed | Researching the city and walking with street dwellers: Recreating urban encounters past and present |
| title_short | Researching the city and walking with street dwellers: Recreating urban encounters past and present |
| title_sort | researching the city and walking with street dwellers recreating urban encounters past and present |
| topic | urban fiction Simone Lazaroo Eurasian expulsion Sassen |
| url | http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/18630/21135 |
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