Geographies of Comfort (Hardcover)

Bringing together conceptual and empirical research from leading thinkers, this book critically examines 'comfort' in everyday life in an era of continually occurring social, political and environmental changes. Comfort and discomfort have assumed a central position in a range of works examining the relations between place and emotion, the senses, affect and materiality. This book argues that the emergence of this theme reflects how questions of comfort intersect humanistic, cultural-political and materialist registers of understanding the world. It highlights how geographies of comfort becomes a timely concern for Human Geography after its cultural, emotional and affective aspects. More specifically, comfort has become a vital theme for work on mobilities, home, environment and environmentalism, sociability in public space and the body. 'Comfort' is recognized as more than just a sensory experience through which we understand the world; its presence, absence and pursuit actively make and un-make the world. In light of this recognition, this book engages deeply with 'comfort' as both an analytic approach and an object of analysis. This book offers international and interdisciplinary perspectives that deploys the lens of comfort to make sense of the textures of everyday life in a variety of geographical contexts. It will appeal to those working in human geography, anthropology, feminist theory, cultural studies and sociology.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	December 2020
First published:	2017
Editors:	Danny McNally • Laura Price • Philip Crang
Dimensions:	234 x 156mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	282
ISBN-13:	978-1-4724-5402-7
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > General Books > Earth & environment > Geography > Human geography > General
LSN:	1-4724-5402-2
Barcode:	9781472454027

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