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Podcast: Trinity Long Room Hub Podcasts
Episode: Literature & Resistance | Unseen City: Ankhi Mukherjee in Conversation with Ian Robertson
Description: From September 27, 2022 | In the first event of the new academic year in the Literature & Resistance series, the Trinity Centre for Resistance Studies and the Trinity Long Room Hub welcomed Ankhi Mukherjee, Professor of English and World Literatures at the University of Oxford, to discuss her book Unseen City: The Psychic Lives of the Urban Poor (Cambridge University Press, 2021).
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 issu...