Gender, Translocality and the City 2.38

The Gender, Translocality and the City Research Group investigates urban space in translocal literary and visual culture after 1945 in the context of spatial theory, affect studies and sociological research on identity and interculturalism. Aiming to investigate the production of metropolitan spaces in a comparative theoretical framework, we focus on the literary portrayals of London, New York, Budapest, Berlin and Kolozsvár, among other cities. The main theoretical questions our project explores are the following: what is the role of literature in mapping the intersection of emotion and contemporary urban spatialities? How do literary and filmic portrayals of urban life and displacement contribute to sociological analyses of migration? Does an affective approach to urban studies redefine the terms the discourse relies on, such as flânerie (Walter Benjamin), concept city, metaphorical city (Michel de Certeau)?