CFP- The Narrative Identity of European Cities in Contemporary Literature

KALEIDOSCOPE, Book of Abstracts, International Conference for Doctoral, Post-Doctoral Students and Young Researchers in Humanities and Social Sciences, 2023

The communication intends to present an introductory study on the notion of „urban narratives": the delimitation of the main conceptual and theoretical aspects, the determination of the defining characteristics and investigating a new possibility of „place-making” through narrative. In the era of globalization and multiculturalism, the city becomes an element of maximum reference.

2019

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2011

Time and Space Edited ByMaria do Rosário Monteiro, Mário S. Ming Kong, Maria João Pereira Neto, 2023

This chapter consists of a reflection on previous works and new readings that put time, in its relationship with the contemporary city, as a fundamental argument of the human being's experience. Narrative as a practice, method, and outcome of research on Urbanism is seen as the vessel that brings together time, space, and events, giving evidence to purpose and causality. Leading authors in the renewal of contemporary thinking in the Social Sciences, Humanities, and Arts (SSHA) are considered and revisited, seeking to establish a theoretical core for future operationalization in the field of Urbanism. From this exploratory standpoint, three personal, historical, and fictional narratives explore and illustrate approaches to the contemporary city.

Srinivas Publication, 2022

Purpose: Cities have always found a place in novels, as a setting which wields influence. Much great writing across cultures has been devoted to figuring out this intangible, yet resolute influence. The city is definitely an agent of transformation in many English works of fiction and this paper highlights the works of researchers who have examined the various ways in which cities are being foregrounded to offer them prominence in the narration and make them significant players in the overall presentation. The impact on the lives of the characters, plot and narration of the novels due to the spatial and cultural ethos of the city, the ways in which the city is portrayed and the reflection of this on the reader form the gist of the findings of the research Design/Methodology/Approach: The review of literature is carried out using information from various online open access sources such as peer-reviewed journals, doctoral theses, websites and a range of portals such as Google Scholar. Findings/Result: Optimizing the reading experience to help the reader move beyond a superficially touristy perspective of the space used as a setting and engage with the city's complex social, political, historical, and cultural milieu requires a deeper study of the different ways in which the city can be foregrounded in novels. Originality/Value: This paper examines the phenomenon of the projection of space in novels and memoirs. A novel concept of the author as a literary cartographer, who makes the work of fiction come alive by not only describing the city as text but also going beyond to offer maps as an aid to the narration and in the process enriching the total reader experience, is presented. Different ways in which the city has been melded into the novel, touching upon its history, architecture and cultural aspects so as to be a significant part of the narrative and wield influence, have been identified.

2008

The self and the city interrelate; both the self and the city are reflexive projects. Moreover, these reflexive projects are dialectally interrelated. Identity is not expressed in actions but (per-)formed through actions. Performativity entails a dialogue, with others and with the urban environment. The meaning of the self is public and shown in its created forms: the city. Knowledge is grounded not in theory but in practice, i.e. knowledge of the city is shown in social practices, styles and forms. The unforeseen and unwanted consequences of the urban risk society cause anxiety, which in turn causes segregation, exclusion and architecture of fear. To overcome this, we citoyens need creativity as a virtue; the density of a megalopolis could also lead to an innovative attitude, hence the experiences of the creative communities in Bandung.

Wiley-ISTE , 2019

Alternative Takes to the City presents the mosaic of relations and socio-spatial conditions which compose the plurality of contemporary everyday space(s) in cities, offering "a view from below". It proposes a multidisciplinary and gendered approach to the (relational) spatialities and temporalities of the everyday, of new mobilities and of global and local networks which constitute urban life in contemporary cities. The book raises an empirically informed theoretical proposition which springs from the multiplicity of everyday experiences, as a laboratory for understanding recent socio-spatial, political and ideological transformations. Each chapter takes forward the theoretical argument based on one or more examples of concrete cities, in order to unveil the complexity and diversity of the urban condition in changing conjunctures, in which local practices connect and collide with global developments.

ABSTRACT Human being makes an effort to reach an absolute judgement inherently. Just like “cities”. They want life to proceed under control, its' own rationality and in the direction of cognition. At this point a major conflict begins. Today's modernity - rationality and history - tradition with a long past are waiting to collide for each other. It's almost impossible to creat universal and total structures in the light of all the modern discourses. Every settlement, every street, every building have certain characteristics in terms of that culture, perception and inhabitants. To understand and recognize the city, senses should belong to “it” before brains in contrary to the rationalist approach. Wars, especially the World Wars, throw up modernity to the transience of life. First I.World War, then II. World War caused a major trauma as the destruction of people, cities and countries. Big traumas were began to live in their own environment by individuals that are progressive in modernity. Life almost began to stop in cities that were destructed with their structure, vision, past and future. Immediately afterwards, this concerns and efforts to holding on life began to cover pain. At this point, architectural improvements have been effective for the cities that were demolished and struggled to re-stand up. Many items such as modernization, industrialization, urbanization begin to create traces through the texture and posture of the city. Should ‘connection with the past’ or ‘directly future orientation’ be effective for the settlement that wants to stand up to move on the road? Initially everything should be open, then all administrative and architectural decisions should be taken. First option for the city should restore a living organism with its' own dynamics. A place, in which its' people live their lives with the consciousness of their past, can entirely be "CITY". Necessary decisions about cities' own dynamics should be taken and make arrangements before important connections between regions, intersections, meeting points and transport networks. In order to reach right solutions, planning should be based on the transition from human& building scale to architectural scale. All the vital criterias should be determined carefully by emphasizing on the concepts as transformation, transition, interaction and ergonomics. From now on studies should be made for the creation of a real city. KEY WORDS: modernization, organism, inhabitants, settlement, building scale, architectural scale.