"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, rather than abstractions, fundamentally tied to
and revolve around such intangibles. We understand nostalgia,
desire, and hope as virtual; that is, even though they are not
material, they are nevertheless real 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.
The aim of the book is to inspire readers to consider space and
place beyond their material properties and attend to the imaginary
places and ideals that underpin and produce material places and
social spaces. This collection will be useful to practitioners and
students seeking to understand the power of affect and the
importance of virtualities within contemporary societies, where
intangible goods have taken on an increasing value.
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