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

这个跨学科的博士项目将研究当代伦敦写作中的家的诗学。我的中心研究问题是：在这座城市面临新自由主义危机和残酷的中产阶级化之际，人们对家园的想象是什么？过去20年来，伦敦密集的重建计划一直受到空间超级商品化的推动，这要么剥夺了城市空间的意义，要么试图从顶部强加一个新的意义。我使用创造性的非虚构类作品的方法(例如乔恩·戴的《归宿》(2019))，将个人传记、讲故事和理论的元素--从文学地理学、拓扑学、建筑和城市设计--编织在一起--我研究了故事和诗学如何重新迷惑被这些大规模发展项目抹去的地方、人和历史。这种重新迷恋揭示了一种植根于城市结构及其过去的对地方的依恋；一种被争夺并处于危险之中的过去。这一点很重要，因为Place为住房和财产的概念提供了一个重要的支柱。该项目涉及到哪些社会行为者有权在城市中居住和在城市中拥有住房的紧迫问题。这篇论文将“海玛特”的概念作为一个家庭的过程，而不是回家的过程，为全球化的、充满活力的、英国退欧后的伦敦提供了关于身份和归属感的新视角。

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.