In the first event of the new academic year in the Literature and Resistance series, Ankhi Mukherjee, Professor of English and World Literatures at the University of Oxford discussed her book Unseen City: The Psychic Lives of the Urban Poor with Ian Robertson.
Professor Mukherjee’s ground-breaking research combines literary and cultural criticism with clinical case studies to examine the relationship between global cities, poverty, and psychoanalysis.
Drawing on extensive, collaborative research in six global cities, and reading works of contemporary world literature which explore issues of identity, illness, and death at the intersections of class, race, globalisation, and migrancy, Unseen City speaks profoundly and urgently to the multifaceted theme of resistance.