{"id":12475,"date":"2020-04-21T16:10:59","date_gmt":"2020-04-21T15:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=12475"},"modified":"2020-04-21T16:10:59","modified_gmt":"2020-04-21T15:10:59","slug":"paul-march-russell-utopias-the-conversation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2020\/04\/21\/paul-march-russell-utopias-the-conversation\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul March-Russell on cities to explore from your sofa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Paul March-Russell, Lecturer in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/european-culture-languages\/comparative-literature\">Department of Comparative Literature<\/a>, has contributed an article titled <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/a-different-kind-of-mini-break-imagined-cities-to-explore-from-your-sofa-135769\">&#8216;A different kind of mini break: imagined cities to explore from your sofa&#8217;<\/a> for <em><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/uk\">The Conversation<\/a><\/em> website.<\/p>\n<p>In the wake of the global pandemic, Paul&#8217;s article explores imagined cities that you can roam from the comfort of your own sofa, ranging from a future London in William Morris\u2019 1890 novel <em>News from Nowhere<\/em>, to the contemporary Dickensian dystopia China Mi\u00e9ville&#8217;s &#8216;New Crobuzon&#8217; series, to the rich fantasy world of Novigrad in Andrzej Sapkowski&#8217;s &#8216;The Witcher&#8217; series.<\/p>\n<p>Paul says: &#8220;I&#8217;m fascinated by cities because their development is linked so closely to modernity, both in economic history and in the arts. Urban fantasy, such as that by M John Harrison and China Mi\u00e9ville, draws upon this relationship but also estranges it &#8211; making us see the city anew.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Paul March-Russell, Lecturer in the Department of Comparative Literature, has contributed an article titled &#8216;A different kind of mini break: imagined cities to explore &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2020\/04\/21\/paul-march-russell-utopias-the-conversation\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52167,"featured_media":11365,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18583,124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12475"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12475"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12483,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12475\/revisions\/12483"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}