Journal article
Researching the city and walking with street dwellers: Recreating urban encounters past and present
Coolabah, Vol.22, pp.19-32
2017
Abstract
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.
Details
- Title
- Researching the city and walking with street dwellers: Recreating urban encounters past and present
- Authors/Creators
- S. Lazaroo (Author/Creator)I. Carrera Suárez (Author/Creator)
- Contributors
- C. Vanden Driesen (Editor)R. Crane (Editor)
- Publication Details
- Coolabah, Vol.22, pp.19-32
- Publisher
- Australian Studies Centre, Universitat de Barcelona; New Delhi
- Identifiers
- 991005542885507891
- Copyright
- © 2017 Simone Lazaroo & Isabel Carrera Suárez
- Murdoch Affiliation
- Division of Arts
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
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