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Affective critical regionality / Neil Campbell.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Campbell, Neil, 1957- author.
- Series:
- Place, memory, affect.
- Place, memory, affect
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Geographical perception.
- Human geography.
- Place (Philosophy).
- Regionalism--Philosophy.
- Regionalism.
- Genre:
- Academic theses.
- dissertations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vii, 227 pages)
- Distribution:
- New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2025.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Rowman & Littlefield International, 2016.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Affective Critical Regionality offers a new approach to developing a sharper, more nuanced understanding of the relations between place, space, memory and affect. It builds on the author's extensive work on the American West, where he developed the idea of ‘expanded critical regionalism' to underline the West as multiple, dynamic and relational; engaged in global / local processes, tensions between the rooted and the routed, and increasingly as relevant to debates around the politics of precarity and vulnerability. This book uses affective critical regionality to enable a re-valuing of the local as a powerful means to appreciate the everyday and the over-looked as vital elements within a more inclusive understanding of how we live. Exploring a variety of cultural materials including fiction, memoir, theory, poetry and film it demonstrates how this approach can deepen our understanding of, and simultaneously provoke new relations with, place. Moving beyond the US context through its use of international theoretical voices and texts, it will show how the concept is applicable to other cultural spheres.
- Contents:
- From regionalism to regionality
- Charles Olson : "the motion which we call life"
- D.J. Waldie : suburban regionality
- Kathleen Stewart : fictocritical regionality
- Rebecca Solnit : a new atlas of emotion
- Willy Vlautin's Northline : fugitive work
- Karen Tei Yamashita : border cartographies, border refrains
- Conclusion : "not so much a deficiency as a resource".
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 979-88-8180-943-0
- 1-78348-084-X
- OCLC:
- 952226485
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