Visions of Home: The Poetics of Heimat in the Cosmopolitan City

这个跨学科的博士项目将调查当代伦敦写作中的家的诗学。我的中心研究问题是：在新自由主义危机和城市残酷的中产阶级化时期，人们想象出什么样的家？在过去的二十年里，伦敦的密集重建项目被空间的超级商品化所加速，这要么剥夺了城市场所的意义，要么试图从顶层强加一个新的意义。我使用创造性非虚构的方法（例如，乔恩·戴的《归家》（2019））将个人传记、讲故事和理论的元素——从文学地理学到拓扑学、建筑和城市设计——编织在一起，研究故事和诗学如何重新赋予被这些大型开发项目所消除的地方、人物和历史以魅力。这种重新着迷揭示了对根植于城市结构及其过去的地方的依恋；一段为之斗争并处于危险中的过去。这很重要，因为地方为家和归属感的概念提供了一个必不可少的锚。该项目涉及社会行动者拥有“城市权利”和在城市中拥有家园的权利的紧迫问题。这篇论文将“Heimat”的概念作为一个“造家”的过程，而不是“回家”的过程，为全球化、充满活力、后英国脱欧的伦敦城市的身份和归属感提供了新的视角。

This interdisciplinary doctoral project will investigate the poetics of Home in contemporary London writing. My central research question is: what visions of home are imagined at a time of neoliberal crisis and cruel gentrification in the city? London's programme of intensive redevelopment over the past twenty years has been turbo-charged by the hyper-commodification of space, which either strips urban places of their meaning or seeks to impose a new one from the top.Using methods of creative non-fiction (such as Jon Day's Homing (2019), for example) to weave together elements of personal biography, storytelling and theory - from literary geography, to topology, architecture and urban design - I examine how stories and poetics re-enchant the places, people and histories that are erased by these large-scale development projects. This re-enchantment reveals an attachment to place that is rooted in the urban fabric and its past; a past that is fought over and at risk. This matters because place provides an essential anchor for the notion of home and belonging.The project engages with the pressing issues of which social actors have the "right to the city" and the right to a Home in the city. Contributing the notion of 'Heimat' as a process of home-making, rather than home-coming, the thesis offers new perspectives on identity and belonging in the globalised, dynamic, post-Brexit city of London.