Metropolitan Research. Methods and Approaches

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He is co-founder and speaker of the Competence Field Metropolitan Research (KoMet) in the University Alliance Ruhr. His research areas include literary urban studies, theories and methods of urban and metropolitan research, model theory, literature and climate change as well as British literature of the 17th to the 21st centuries and contemporary US fiction. Rolf Parr (Prof. Dr.), born in 1956, is a professor of German Literature and Media Studies at Universität Duisburg-Essen. He is a member of the extended coordination circle of the Competence Field Metropolitan Research in the University Alliance Ruhr (KoMet). His research areas include literature, media and cultural theory/history of the 18th to 21st centuries, discourse theory and research on normalism, collective symbols, literature/media relations, television, medial representations of work, urban and metropolitan research. Dennis Hardt (Dipl.-Geogr.), born in 1984, is an urban geographer and regional planner in the Department of Regional Development at Regionalverband Ruhr. Before, he was coordinator of the Competence Field Metropolitan Research in the University Alliance Ruhr (KoMet) and researcher in the Department of Spatial Planning and Planning Theory at Technische Universität Dortmund. His research 1 For detailed discussions of the rewards, challenges and pitfalls of interdisciplinary collaboration, see the collections by Frickel/Albert/Prainsack 2017; Frodeman 2017; Menken/Keestra 2016; for a brief discussion of conceptual as well as practical challenges, cf. Gurr/Kluwick 2021.