Potter, Emily
Deakin University
Australia
Emily Potter is a literary and cultural studies researcher whose work returns to themes of place-making practice and postcolonial environments. Her books include Plastic Water: The Social and Material Life of Bottled Water (MIT Press, 2015, with Gay Hawkins and Kane Race) and the forthcoming Field Notes on Belonging: Non-indigenous Australian Writing at the Millennium (Intellect, 2019). She is Associate Head of School (Research) and Senior Lecturer in Literary Studies at Deakin University.
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ArticlesIain Sinclair is a writer who is synonymous with a city. Sinclair’s sustained literary engagement with London from the mid 1960s has produced a singular account of place in that city (Bond; Baker; Seale “Iain Sinclair”). Sinclair is a leading figure in a resurgent and rebranded psychogeographic literature of the 1990s (Coverley) where on-foot wandering through the city brings...Read more
