City Fictions of the New India, with Alex Tickell, Ruvani Ranasinha, and David Johnson

02/07/2025 1h 10min
City Fictions of the New India, with Alex Tickell, Ruvani Ranasinha, and David Johnson

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Professor Alex Tickell is a historian and critic of global literatures in English. This panel event launched his book, City Fictions of the New India, published in 2025 by Oxford University Press. In the book and this recorded discussion, Alex discusses how fiction, literary journalism, the graphic novel, and television drama have reimagined the relationship between infrastructure and citizenship in contemporary Indian cities.

Alex is in conversation with Professor Ruvani Ranasinha (King's College London) and Professor David Johnson (Open University). The discussion is hosted by Dr Dom Davies (City St George's) and the Thinking Through Infrastructure Network (@TTinfraNetwork).