| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 346 pages) : illustrations, digital file. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Canadian commentaries
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Canadian commentaries.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
"Not everything was good, but many things were better" : nostalgia for East Germany and its politics / Anne Winkler -- Nostalgia and postmemories of a lost place : actualizing "my virtual homeland" / Tonya K. Davidson -- Placing nostalgia : the process of returning and remaking home / Allison Hui -- From disease to desire : the afflicated amalgamation of music and nostalgia / Mickey Vallee -- The tourist affect : escape and syncresis on the Las Vegas strip / Rob Shields -- (In)human desiring and extended agency / Matthew Tiessen -- Cityscapes of desire : urban change in post-Soviet Russia / Olga Pak -- Illustrating desires : the idea and the promise of the suburb in two children's books / Ondine Park -- The virtual places of childhood : hope and the micro-politics of race at an inner-city youth centre / Bonar Buffam -- Virtual resurrections : Che Guevara's image as place of hope / Maria-Carolina Cambre -- Performing spaces of hope : street puppetry and the aesthetics of scale / Petra Hroch -- The spatial distribution of hope in and beyond Fort McMurray / Sara Dorow and Goze Dogu -- Spectacular enclosures of hope : artificial islands in the Gulf and the present / Mark S. Jackson and Veronica della Dora -- Conclusion : a roundtable on the affective turn / Rob Shields [and others]. |
| Summary |
Ecologies of Affect offers a synthetic introduction to the felt dynamics of cities and the character of places. The contributors capture the significance of affects, including desire, nostalgia, memory, and hope, in forming the identity and tone of places. The critical intervention this collection of essays makes is an active, consistent engagement with the virtualities that produce and refract our idealized attachments to place. Contributors show how place images and attempts to build communities are not abstractions but are fundamentally tied to and resolve around such intangibles. We understand nostalgia, desire, and hope as virtual; that is, even though they are not material, they are nonetheless and must be accounted for. In this book, the authors take up affect, emotion, and emplacement and consider them in relation to one another and how they work to produce and are produced by certain temporal and spatial dimensions. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Social ecology.
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Social ecology. |
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Cultural geography.
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Cultural geography. |
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Geographical perception.
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Geographical perception. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Shields, Rob, 1961-
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Park, Ondine, 1974-
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Davidson, Tonya K., 1979-
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| ISBN |
9781554583126 (electronic book) |
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1554583128 (electronic book) |
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