Welcome to CILM project
City and (In)security in Literature and the Media project ref. PTDC/CLE-LLI/110694/2009(CILM1), funded by FCT in 2010-2013, examines how anxieties about security have shaped current literary representations of the city both in Europe and in the US in the last two decades. It explores how, since the “war on terror” was announced, a growing number of novelists focused their work on urban settings, conveying generalised hesitations towards security: while, on the one hand, many of these novels depict a growing malaise regarding social and private insecurity, on the other hand, they also disclose an increasing awareness about the social and political construction of security discourses and practices.
Since 2013 then we have been developing three major lines of research (CILM2):
- Comparing Home/lands
- Prison States and Narratives of Captivity
- Endangered Bodies: Genders and Genres of Insecurity
