Drawing on affect theory and the key themes of attachment, disruption and belonging, this book examines the ways in which our placed surroundings – whether urban design, border management or organisations – shape and form experiences of gender. Bringing together key debates across the fields of sociology, geography and organisation studies, the book sets out new theoretical ground to examine and consolidate shared experiences of what it means to be in or out of place. Contributors explore how our gendered selves encounter place, and critically examine the way in which experiences of gender shape meanings and attachments, as well as how place produces gendered modes of identity, inclusion and belonging. Emphasizing the intertwined dynamics of affect and being affected, the book examines the gendering of place and the placing of gender.
Author(s): Alex Simpson (editor), Ruth Simpson (editor), Darren T. Baker (editor)
Edition: 1
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Year: 2024
Language: English
Pages: 262
Contents
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Introduction • Alex Simpson and Ruth Simpson
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 • Nick Rumens
2 Placing Postfeminism and Affect: Exploring the Affective Constitution of Postfeminist Subjectivities by Leaders in the City of London • Patricia Lewis
3 Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Affective Responses to Space, Objects and Atmosphere in a Writer’s House Museum • Jessica Horne
4 Trading from Home: The Affective Relations of ‘Doing Finance’ in the Domestic Setting of the Home • Corina Sheerin and Alex Simpson
5 What Is the Potential of Psychoanalysis to Understand the Relationship between Space, Objects and Subject Formation? • Darren T. Baker
6 Affecting a Desiring ‘Woman Worker’: A Spatial Interpretive Ethnography of a Café in India • Rajeshwari Chennangodu and George Kandathil
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 • Melissa Tyler
8 Affective Practices and Liminal Space-making in Palestinian Refugee Camps • Alison Hirst and Christina Schwabenland
9 Placing Fear of Crime: Affect, Gender and Perceptions of Safety • Murray Lee
10 To Be a Homeless Woman in Russia: Coping Strategies and Meanings of ‘Home’ on the Street • Evgeniia Kuziner
Part III: Place, Gender Identity and Belonging
11 Affective Atmospheres of Finance: Gendered Impacts of Financialization within Sydney’s Barangaroo Development • Alex Simpson and Paul McGuinness
12 Liminality and Affect: Knowing and Belonging among Unscripted Bodies • Nyk Robertson
13 Unsettling Metronormativity: Locating Queer Youth inthe Regions • Nicholas Hill, Katherine Johnson, Anna Hickey-Moody, Troy Innocent and Dan Harris
14 Landscape, Gender and Belonging: Male Manual Workers in a UK Seaside Town • Ruth Simpson and Rachel Morgan
Conclusion: Gender, Place and Affect • Ruth Simpson and Alex Simpson
Index
