Critical geographies of love as spatial, relational and political

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Critical geographies of love as spatial, relational and political

Carey-Ann Morrison¹, Lynda Johnston¹, Robyn Longhurst¹•Institutions (1)

University of Waikato¹

01 Aug 2013-Progress in Human Geography (SAGE Publications)-Vol. 37, Iss: 4, pp 505-521

TL;DR: The work of Ahmed, Sedgwick and Berlant as mentioned in this paper is useful for furthering geographers' insights on love, and they argue for a consideration of love as spatial, relational and political.

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Abstract: Geographers to date have resisted writing about feelings, affects, places and spaces of love. It is timely to put love on the geographical agenda. We begin by addressing the question ‘what does love do?’, and we review the work of geographers who have been thinking about love via a number of different theoretical lenses. We then argue for a consideration of love as spatial, relational and political. We prompt geographers to think critically about love in its entire multisensory, lived, embodied, felt and contradictory guises. Finally, the work of Ahmed, Sedgwick and Berlant is useful for furthering geographers’ insights on love.

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Topophilia: A Study of Environmental Perception, Attitudes and Values

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J. Wraith

01 Sep 1975-Journal of Architectural Education

TL;DR: Topophilia: A Study of Environmental Perception, Attitudes and Values as mentioned in this paper is a study of environmental perception, attitudes and values in architecture, which is also related to the work of as mentioned in this paper.

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Abstract: (1975). Topophilia: A Study of Environmental Perception, Attitudes and Values. Journal of Architectural Education: Vol. 29, Humanist Issues in Architecture, pp. 32-32.

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Intimacy: Personal Relationships in Modern Societies

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Hedvig Ekerwald

01 Jan 2000

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Cities and Sexualities

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Philip Hubbard¹, Andrew Gorman-Murray², Catherine J. Nash³•Institutions (3)

University of Kent¹, University of Western Sydney², Brock University³

28 Nov 2011

TL;DR: The authors reviewed the literature on the relations of sexuality and space, and particularly focusing on the relation of urbanisation and sexuality as they are manifest in cities, and noted the challenges that persist in terms of understanding the ways that sexuality, gender, class, ethnicity and age intersect in cities that are increasingly global.

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Abstract: This chapter reviews the literature on the relations of sexuality and space, and particularly that focusing on the relations of urbanisation and sexuality as they are manifest in cities. Beginning by noting studies that sought to explain the concentration of sexual “deviance” and vice in inner city districts, the Chapter considers the theoretical materials which have been important in the framing of such studies, and considers the way these have wider applicability in the study of sexuality in the suburbs and other spaces long regarded as heteronormative. The Chapter hence alights on emerging themes in the literature—including the apparent assimilation of LGBT identities in the cityscape and the changing visibilities of commercial sex—and notes the challenges that persist in terms of understanding the ways that sexuality, gender, class, ethnicity and age intersect in cities that are increasingly global.

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...However, research has as yet said little about sexuality as something that binds particular cities together, despite the evidential importance of sex to the economies of cities and, conversely, the importance of cities in articulating flows of migration in which love and sex can be a significant motive for movement (King and Mai 2009; Morrison et al. 2013)....
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Everyday Austerity: Towards Relational Geographies of Family, Friendship and Intimacy

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Sarah Marie Hall

01 Oct 2019-Progress in Human Geography

TL;DR: In this paper, a relational geographer advances ideas about relational geographies to explore "everyday austerity" in the context of the recent financial crisis, and the focus is on the causes and aftermath of the crisis.

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Abstract: This paper advances ideas about relational geographies to explore ‘everyday austerity’ Whilst geographers have analysed the causes and aftermath of the recent financial crisis, the focus largely r

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...…I suggest, offers further opportunities for exploring austerity as a lived and personal condition, as it relates not only to relationships within and between individuals, but also according to the politics and spaces created by and through these relations (Massey 2004, Morrison et al. 2012)....
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...…2012), geographers should also take heed of warnings about romanticising familial relationships, defined as much by emotional closeness as tension, unhappiness or abuse, which may become exacerbated by/in tumultuous economic and political contexts (Morrison et al. 2012, Pinkerton and Dolan 2007)....
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...However, the ties that bind friendship are arguably discernable from kinship, based not on consanguinity or law, but choice, entered into voluntarily, and founded upon shared values or experiences (Bowlby 2011, Morrison et al. 2012, Weeks et al. 2001)....
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...Meetings with friends, intimates and sexual partners may be altered by these revised living arrangements, whereby the home may not offer suitable privacy (Morrison et al. 2012, Robinson et al. 2004)....
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...…lifts to appointments because local transport services have been axed; and emotional support, such as providing comfort and counsel, as well as a 'loving' environment to see through these changes (Edwards and Gillies 2004, Pinkerton and Dolan 2007, Morrison et al. 2012, Thomson et al. 2010)....
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Alter-Childhoods: Biopolitics and Childhoods in Alternative Education Spaces

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Peter Kraftl¹•Institutions (1)

University of Leicester¹

02 Jan 2015-Annals of The Association of American Geographers

TL;DR: In this paper, the concept of alter-childhoods is introduced and examined at fifty-nine alternative education spaces in the United Kingdom, focusing on materialities and (non)human bodies; intimacy, love, and the human scale.

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Abstract: In this article, I consider “alter-childhoods”: explicit attempts to imagine, construct, talk about, and put into practice childhoods that differ from perceived mainstreams. I critically examine alter-childhoods at fifty-nine alternative education spaces in the United Kingdom. I analyze alternative education spaces through the lens of biopolitics, developing nascent work in children's geographies and childhood studies around hybridity and biopower. I focus on two key themes: materialities and (non)human bodies; intimacy, love, and the human scale. Throughout the analysis, I offer a limited endorsement of the concept of alter-childhoods. Although there exist many attempts to construct childhoods differently, the “alternative” nature of those childhoods is always muddied, complicated, and dynamic. Thus, the concept of alter-childhoods is useful for examining the biopolitics of childhood and for children's geographers more generally—but only when considered as a critical tool and questioning device.

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The Second Sex

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Simone de Beauvoir, H. M. Parshley

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TL;DR: The Second Sex as discussed by the authors is a seminal work in the modern feminist upsurge that has transformed perceptions of the social relationship of man and women in our time, and it is at once a work of anthropology and sociology, of biology and psychoanalysis from the pen of a writer and novelist of penetrating imaginative power.

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Abstract: Of all the writing that emerged from the existentialist movement, Simone de Beauvoir's groundbreaking study of women will probably have the most extensive and enduring impact. It is at once a work of anthropology and sociology, of biology and psychoanalysis, from the pen of a writer and novelist of penetrating imaginative power. THE SECOND SEX stands, four decades after its first appearance, as the first landmark in the modern feminist upsurge that has transformed perceptions of the social relationship of man and womankind in our time.

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The Cultural Politics of Emotion

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01 Jan 2004

TL;DR: In this paper, Ahmed considers how emotions keep us invested in relationships of power, and also shows how this use of emotion could be crucial to feminist and queer political movements Debates on international terrorism, asylum and migration, as well as reconciliation and reparation are explored through topical case studies.

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Abstract: This is a bold take on the crucial role of emotion in politics Emotions work to define who we are as well as shape what we do and this is no more powerfully at play than in the world of politics Ahmed considers how emotions keep us invested in relationships of power, and also shows how this use of emotion could be crucial to feminist and queer political movements Debates on international terrorism, asylum and migration, as well as reconciliation and reparation are explored through topical case studies In this textbook the difficult issues are confronted head on New for this edition: a substantial 15,000-word Afterword on 'Emotions and Their Objects' which provides an original contribution to the burgeoning field of affect studies; a revised Bibliography; and updated throughout

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"Critical geographies of love as spa..." refers background or methods in this paper

...Regardless, we think that there is value in these concepts, especially as articulated in the work of Sedgwick (1999, 2003), Ahmed (2003, 2004a, 2004b) and Berlant (1998, 2008a, 2008b, 2011), and we look forward to others developing new agendas and projects on ‘geographies of love’....
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...Sara Ahmed also offers a reading of emotion, and of love, that is relational. In her book The Cultural Politics of Emotion (2004a) she addresses emotions (including love), objects and orientations, but also space, time, directionality, bodies and proximities....
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...Cultural geographer Divya Tolia-Kelly (2006: 214) brings geographers closer to Ahmed’s (2004b) scholarship by reminding us that affective economies are ‘defined and circulate through and within historical notions of the political, social and cultural capacities of various bodies as signified rather than those specifically encountered, felt, loved, loathed and sensed’....
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...She explains: ‘Emotions are both about objects, which they hence shape, and are also shaped by contact with objects’ (Ahmed, 2004a: 7)....
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...Love, according to Freud (1961), is crucial in the pursuit of happiness, and in the process makes individuals ‘exposed to, and dependent upon another, who in ‘‘not being myself’’, threatens to take away the possibility of love’ (Ahmed, 2004a: 125)....
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City University of New York¹

01 Jan 1990

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Abstract: Nesta versao condensada de seu livro homonimo, Sedgwick esboca uma reflexao sobre o "armario" como um dispositivo de regulacao da vida de gays e lesbicas que concerne, tambem, aos heterossexuais e seus privilegios de visibilidade e hegemonia de valores. A pesquisadora norte-americana afirma que "o armario", ou o "segredo aberto", marcou a vida gay/lesbica no ultimo seculo e nao deixou de faze-lo mesmo apos o marco de Stonewall em 1969. Sedgwick argumenta ainda que esse regime, com suas regras contraditorias e limitantes sobre privacidade e revelacoes, publico e privado, conhecimento e ignorância, serviu para dar forma ao modo como muitas questoes de valores e epistemologia foram concebidas e abordadas na moderna sociedade ocidental como um todo.

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01 Aug 1992

TL;DR: In this paper, Foucault on Sexuality and Commitment, Love, Commitment and the Pure Relationship are discussed, and the Sociological Meaning of Codependence is discussed.

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Abstract: Preface. Introduction. 1. Everyday Experiments, Relationships, Sexuality. 2. Foucault on Sexuality. 3. Romantic Love and Other Attachments. 4. Love, Commitment and the Pure Relationship. 5. Love, Sex and Other Addictions. 6. The Sociological Meaning of Codependence. 7. Personal Turbulence, Sexual Troubles. 8. Contradictions of the Pure Relationship. 9. Sexuality, Repression, Civilisation. 10. Intimacy as Democracy. Index.

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"Critical geographies of love as spa..." refers background in this paper

...This is despite recent suggestions that modes of love and loving in late-modern detraditionalized societies have undergone fundamental changes with new patterns and forms of intimacy emerging (Beck and Beck-Gernsheim, 1995; Giddens, 1992; Weeks, 2000)....
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...…and humanities, including gender studies (Stevi Jackson, 1993a, 1993b, 1995, 2010; Sue Jackson, 2001), sociology (Beck and Beck-Gernsheim, 1995; Giddens, 1992; Jamieson, 1998, 1999; Johnson, 2005; Lindholm, 1998; Schäfer, 2008; Swee Lin, 2008), leisure studies (Herridge et al., 2003),…...
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Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity

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Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

01 Jan 2003

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss Shame, Theatricality, and Queer Performativity: Henry James's The Art of the Novel and the Cybernetic Fold: Reading Silvan Tomkins (written with Adam Frank) 93 4. Paranoid Reading and Reparative Reading, or, You're So Paranoid, You Probably Think This Essay Is About You 123 5. Pedagogy of Buddhism 153 Works Cited 183 Index 189

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Abstract: Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 Interlude, Pedagogic 27 1. Shame, Theatricality, and Queer Performativity: Henry James's The Art of the Novel 35 2. Around the Performative: Periperformative Vicinities in Nineteenth-Century Narrative 67 3. Shame in the Cybernetic Fold: Reading Silvan Tomkins (Written with Adam Frank) 93 4. Paranoid Reading and Reparative Reading, or, You're So Paranoid, You Probably Think This Essay Is About You 123 5. Pedagogy of Buddhism 153 Works Cited 183 Index 189

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"Critical geographies of love as spa..." refers background or methods in this paper

...In particular, we examine the work of Sara Ahmed (2003, 2004a, 2004b), Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (1999, 2003) and Lauren Berlant (1998, 2001, 2008a, 2008b, 2011) as useful for furthering geographers’ insights on love....
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...Two authors whose work can help here are Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and Sara Ahmed....
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...Regardless, we think that there is value in these concepts, especially as articulated in the work of Sedgwick (1999, 2003), Ahmed (2003, 2004a, 2004b) and Berlant (1998, 2008a, 2008b, 2011), and we look forward to others developing new agendas and projects on ‘geographies of love’....
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