Gendering place and affect : attachment, disruption and belonging / edited by Alex Simpson, Ruth Simpson and Darren T. Baker.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Simpson, Alex, editor.

Simpson, Ruth, editor.

Baker, Darren T., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gender identity--Social aspects.

Gender identity.

Affect (Psychology)--Social aspects.

Affect (Psychology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 252 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2024.

Summary:

This book uses affect theory to explore how placed surroundings shape experiences of gender. Drawing on debates in sociology, geography and organization studies, it examines what it means to be 'in' or 'out' of place and analyses how gender shapes meanings, attachments and identities relating to place.

Contents:

Front Cover

Gendering Place and Affect: Attachment, Disruption and Belonging

Copyright information

Table of Contents

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Gender and attachment in places and spaces of work

Gender, disruption and unsettling spaces and places

Place, gender identity and belonging

References

Part I Gender and Attachment in Places and Spaces of Work

1 The Affective, Gendered Processes of Place Making: Understanding the Home Conservatory as a Place of Artistic Work

Affect, gender and places and spaces of work

The gendered cultural history of the conservatory

The gendered cultural history of the artist's studio

Conclusion

2 Placing Postfeminism and Affect: Exploring the Affective Constitution of Postfeminist Subjectivities by Leaders in the City of London

Postfeminism and place

Methodology

Findings

Disavowal of excessive individualism

Should care for others without caring too much

Valorization of the masculine

The importance of the feminine but the necessity of the masculine

Seeking aspiration

Repudiating human fragility, embracing human potential

Family: acceptance and regret

I chose work but I missed out on children

Acknowledgements

3 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Affective Responses to Space, Objects and Atmosphere in a Writer's House Museum

Affect in organization studies

Affect in museums

Methods

Volunteers' affective responses to space and objects

4 Trading from Home: The Affective Relations of 'Doing Finance' in the Domestic Setting of the Home

Gender, space and finance

Affective relations of gender and space

Reconfiguring the home

Managing the domestic.

The 'doing' of work at home

5 What Is the Potential of Psychoanalysis to Understand the Relationship between Space, Objects and Subject Formation?

Transitional objects

Potential space

Existing studies on transitional objects and potential space

Spaces that matter

Safety and ability to symbolize

Dialectical dissociation

Potential spaces

6 Affecting a Desiring 'Woman Worker': A Spatial Interpretive Ethnography of a Café in India

Desiring foodwork

Stories of new desires

(Re)territorialization of space: the emergence of foodwork and workers

Note

Part II Gender, Disruption and Unsettling Spaces and Places

7 Taking Place in-as Soho: Understanding the 'Here and There, Then and Now' of Gender and Affect Work

Working communities as affective places

Soho as a meaningful location: its 'then, now, here and there'

Soho as a 'thickly' gendered location

Soho as a place of hegemonic masculinity and hyper-heteronormativity

Soho as a critically queer and multiplicitous place

8 Affective Practices and Liminal Space-making in Palestinian Refugee Camps

Borders and liminal spaces

Borders

Liminal spaces

Affective practices

Soufra's kitchen: liminality and transformations of self

Rooftop gardens: nurturing activism and reclaiming dignity

9 Placing Fear of Crime: Affect, Gender and Perceptions of Safety

Fear of crime and gender

Worry about crime and the ABC of fear

Affect and fear of crime

Place and fear of crime

References.

10 To Be a Homeless Woman in Russia: Coping Strategies and Meanings of 'Home' on the Street

The role of affect in constructions of home

The role of 'home' in determining the characteristics of women's homelessness

Everyday practices and coping strategies of women experiencing homelessness

Methodology and empirical material of the study

The home that doesn't exist: everyday practices of homeless women

Part III Place, Gender Identity and Belonging

11 Affective Atmospheres of Finance: Gendered Impacts of Financialization within Sydney's Barangaroo Development

Affective atmospheres of place

Traversing atmospheric and temporal boundaries

Affective atmospheres of glass, reflection and light

12 Liminality and Affect: Knowing and Belonging among Unscripted Bodies

Affect and queer bodies

Scripted bodies

Affect and social meaning

Rewriting the script

Loss

Liminality and changing the script

Knowing and being known

Unscripted bodies

Formation of intelligible bodies

Space and belonging

13 Unsettling Metronormativity: Locating Queer Youth in the Regions

Locating queer youth in regions

Methodological contributions to a queer politics of belonging

Defining and developing the digital intervention

Queer(y)ing place: 'Rainbow Rangers'

14 Landscape, Gender and Belonging: Male Manual Workers in a UK Seaside Town

Belonging, affect and gender

Landscape and affect

Constructions of belonging in Hastings

Occupational legacy and belonging

Sensory experiences of landscape

Landscape, belonging and exclusivity

Conclusion: Gender, Place and Affect

Attachment, disruption and belonging

Relationality, transmissibility and bodily capacity

Potential, place and affect

Place making, atmospheres and intensity

Gender, place and affect

Index.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 10 Jan 2025).

ISBN:

1-5292-3276-7

1-5292-3277-5

OCLC:

1449673079