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In the spring of 2020, as France was experiencing its first lockdown due to the COVID19 pandemic, the perplexing question of how to find material to fill the pages of Études britanniques contemporaines 60 emerged. From the past thirty years, the spring and autumn issues of the journal had published the selected proceedings of conferences (SAES conferences for the spring numbers and SEAC(-SAIT) or SEW issues for the autumns numbers). In March and April 2020, as the date of the SEAC conference ...

Chapitre publié sous le titre "The Poetics of the Suburbs in Ian Sinclair’s London Orbital”; International audience; Drawing on criticism addressing Sinclair's works, this article is inspired by an approach based on the ethics of perception and vulnerability on the one hand, and the politics of (in-)visibility on the other. In the first part I address the issue of the ethics of perception, paying attention to the way in which they are performed in Sinclair's fiction with reference to the categories of attention and consideration. In the second part I address the modalities of social invisibility as inscribed in London Orbital. In the last part, I edge towards a discussion of suburban spaces as sites of vulnerability, addressing more specifically the figures of exposure and dispossession.