Ecologies of Affect

Placing Nostalgia, Desire, and Hope
Herausgeber: Davidson, Tonya K; Shields, Rob; Park, Ondine

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Produktbeschreibung

A collection of essays which make an active, consistent engagement with the virtualities that produce and refract our idealized attachments to place. It offers a synthetic introduction to the felt dynamics of cities and the character of places.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9781554582587
• ISBN-10: 155458258X
• Artikelnr.: 31288902

Autorenporträt

Tonya Davidson teaches sociology at Carleton University in Ottawa. She is the co-editor of Seasonal Sociology (with Ondine Park) and Ecologies of Affect (with Ondine Park and Rob Shields). Ondine Park is a Ph.D. candidate in sociology at the University of Alberta and is interested in urban and cultural studies and social theory. Her most recent research focuses on the idea and promise of the suburb. She can be found at www.ualberta.ca/ opark. Rob Shields is the H.M. Tory Chair in the Departments of Sociology and Art and Design at the University of Alberta. He is co-editor of the journal Space and Culture, and his most recent works include What Is a City? Rethinking the Urban after Katrina (ed., 2008) and Building Tomorrow: Innovation in Construction (ed., 2005).

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents for
Ecologies of Affect: Placing Nostalgia, Desire, and Hope, edited by Tonya
Davidson, Ondine Park, and Rob Shields
List of Figures
Introduction Ondine Park, Tonya K. Davidson, and Rob Shields
Section I: Nostalgia
1. "Not everything was good, but many things were better": Nostalgia for
East Germany and Its Politics Anne Winkler
2. Nostalgia and Postmemories of a Lost Place: Actualizing "My Virtual
Homeland" Tonya Davidson
3. Placing Nostalgia: The Process of Returning and Remaking Home Allison
Hui
4. From Disease to Desire: The Afflicted Amalgamation of Music and
Nostalgia Mickey Vallee
Section II: Desire
5. The Tourist Affect: Escape and Syncresis on the Las Vegas Strip Rob
Shields
6. (In)Human Desiring and Extended Agency Matthew Tiessen
7. Cityscapes of Desire: Urban Change in Post-Soviet Russia Olga Pak
8. Illustrating Desires: The Idea and the Promise of the Suburb in Two
Children's Books Ondine Park
Section III: Hope
9. The Virtual Places of Childhood: Hope and the Micro-Politics of Race at
an Inner City Youth Centre Bonar Buffam
10. Virtual Resurrections: Che Guevara's Image as Place of Hope
Maria-Carolina Cambre
11. Performing Spaces of Hope: Street Puppetry and the Aesthetics of Scale
Petra Hroch
12. The Spatial Distribution of Hope In and Beyond Fort McMurray Sara
Dorow and Goze Dogu
13. Spectacular Enclosures of the 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, Ondine Park,
Tonya Davidson, and the Contributors
List of Contributors
Index
Contributors' Bios
Bonar Buffam is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology at the
University of British Columbia. His research explores the racial
intersections of law, civility, and the public life of urban spaces. His
current research project documents the racial publics and geographies that
emerge through the circulation of texts about illicit urban economies in
Vancouver and Chicago. His work also appears in Law, Text, Culture (2009)
and Social Identities (forthcoming). He can be reached at
[e-mail].
Maria-Carolina Cambre is a doctoral student in Educational Policy Studies
at the University of Alberta. Her dissertation research is titled "The
Politics of the Face: Manifestations of Che Guevara's Image and Its
Renderings, Progeny, and Agency." Conceptually, this thesis has transported
her to other places such as the disciplinary interstices between art,
sociology, and anthropology and methodologically to the Shangri-La between
phenomenology, semiotics, and arts-based research. Virtually, she can be
found here: http://www.ualberta.ca/~mcambre/.
Tonya K. Davidson is a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology at the University of
Alberta. Her research interests include cultural memory, material culture,
and the built environment. Her dissertation research is on the dynamic
social lives of a series of monuments in Ottawa, Ontario. Tonya is
currently teaching in the Sociology department at King's University
College, the University of Western Ontario. She can be found at
http://www.tonya-davidson.ca.
Veronica della Dora is Lecturer in Geographies of Knowledge at the School
of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol. She is the author of
Imagining Mount Athos: Visions of a Holy Place from Homer to World War II
(University of Virginia Press, 2011) and co-editor with Denis Cosgrove of
High Places: Cultural Geographies of Mountains, Ice, and Science (IB
Tauris, 2008). Her research interests and publications span cultural and
historical geography, history of cartography, Byzantine and post-Byzantine
studies, and science studies.
Goze Dogu is a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology at the University of Alberta.
Her research interests are diverse and include petro-capitalism and "oil
culture," political economy of immigration and racialization,
politics/policies of food, and critical analysis of public policy. Her
dissertation research is on the problematization of natural resources in
Alberta's oil and gas royalty and tax framework, and attempts to theorize
the discursive knowledges and technologies around nature and valuation of
natural resources. She can be reached at [e-mail].
Sara Dorow is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of
Alberta. She heads a SSHRC-funded research project on the challenges and
possibilities for "community" in Fort McMurray, Alberta, at the heart of
the largest oil industrial development in the world. She is also the author
of Transnational Adoption: A Cultural Economy of Race, Gender, and Kinship
(New York University Press, 2006). Dr. Dorow may be reached at
[e-mail].
Petra Hroch is a Ph.D. student in Sociology (Theory and Culture) at the
University of Alberta. Her doctoral work is supported by a SSHRC Joseph-
Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship, Izaak Walton Killam Memorial
Scholarship, and Ralph Steinhauer Award of Distinction. Petra's research
interests include art, design and aesthetic theory, environmental ethics,
and social and political theory. Her work has been featured in Walter
Benjamin and the Aesthetics of Change (Palgrave Macmillan,2010).
Allison Hui is a Ph.D. student and Commonwealth Scholar in the Department
of Sociology at Lancaster University, UK. Her work examines how what people
do and where they do it are intertwined, bringing together theories of
mobilities and of practices in an empirical study of leisure pursuits. She
is also involved in the ESRC-sponsored Social Change, Climate Change
working parties, and is a convenor for the British Sociological
Association's Postgraduate Forum. She can be reached at
[e-mail].
Mark Jackson is a Lecturer in Postcolonial Geographies at the University of
Bristol. His research interests and publications lie at the intersections
between philosophy and social theory, post-colonialism, urban studies,
social history, political ecology, and visual studies.
Olga Pak is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology at the
University of Alberta. Her research interests pertain to social imaginary,
nostalgia, urban ethics and aesthetics, social history and cultural studies
of Soviet and post-Soviet Russia. Olga's dissertation project explores
post-Soviet urban transformations in Russia. She can be contacted at
[e-mail].
Ondine Park is a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology at the University of Alberta
and a researcher at the City-Region Studies Centre. She is interested in
contemporary exemplars of the "normal": social, cultural, and spatial
practices and forms that are ubiquitous, taken for granted, and normative.
Her research interrogates the ways these are represented and reproduced,
and how they are imagined or wished to be normal. Her current work focuses
on desire, the idea, and promise of the suburban good life.
http://www.ualberta.ca/~opark.
Rob Shields is Henry Marshall Tory Chair and Professor in the Departments
of Sociology and Art and Design, University of Alberta. He is founder and
co-editor of the journal Space and Culture, and founder of Curb magazine.
His most recent works include What Is a City? Rethinking the Urban after
Katrina (ed., with Phil Steinberg, University of Georgia Press, 2008) and
Building Tomorrow: Innovation in Construction (ed. with André Manseau,
Ashgate, 2005). He directs the City-Region Studies Centre.
Matthew Tiessen completed his doctorate in Critical Theory and Visual
Culture at the University of Alberta with the support of a SSHRC Doctoral
Fellowship and Killam Memorial Scholarship. Matthew's research engages
theories of digital and visual culture, mobility, virtuality, and ethics.
His writing has been featured in CTheory; Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in
Emerging Knowledge; Space and Culture; Pli: The Warwick Journal of
Philosophy; and What Is a City? Rethinking the Urban after Hurricane
Katrina (University of Georgia Press, 2008). Matthew teaches in the
Communication Studies department at Wilfrid Laurier University.
Mickey Vallee received his Ph.D. from the University of Alberta, where he
now teaches courses in sociology and music. He is currently co-editing a
hypertext glossary of terms by Deleuze and Guattari with Rob Shields
(http://www.deleuzeguattari.com) while writing a book on Lacan and the
virtual structures of recorded music. He is delighted to see this anthology
released just after the birth of his second daughter, Anouk.
Anne Winkler is a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology at the University of
Alberta. She is interested in commemorative practices in the post-socialist
context. In her dissertation project, Anne examines the representation of
East Germany in museums. She may be reached at [e-mail].