The Question of Space: Interrogating the Spatial Turn between Disciplines (Place, Memory, Affect) - Softcover

Nieuwenhuis, Marijn

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ISBN 10: 1786601958 ISBN 13: 9781786601957

Verlag: Rli, 2017

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This edited collection offers a much-needed interdisciplinary exploration of the longevity and impact of the spatial turn across disciplines. It is aimed at advanced undergraduates, postgraduates and scholars interested in space and place in the humanities and social sciences.

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Marijn Nieuwenhuis is a lecturer in Political Geography at the University of Warwick. His research is at the intersection of geography, philosophy and politics. His current research focuses on the 'politics of the air' and the political imagination of sand. He studies these two broad themes in relation to questions over the link between environmental reality and political matters concerning technology, pollution, security, territory and governance.

David Crouch's research and writing crosses a number of fields of cultural geography, social anthropology, cultural and visual studies and art theory. These theoretical areas are engaged through an attention to contemporary cultural change, identity, human creativity, life and space encounters and relations, through ethnographies around landscape, everyday life/leisure and tourism, community involvement and the work of artists. This work includes an interest in space and gentle politics, belonging, disorientation and cultural identity, and human poetic expression in diverse forms of creativity.

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The Question of Space

Interrogating the Spatial Turn between Disciplines

By Marijn Nieuwenhuis, David Crouch

Rowman & Littlefield International, Ltd.

Copyright © 2017 Matter Marijn Nieuwenhuis and David Crouch
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ISBN: 978-1-78660-195-7

Contents

Acknowledgements, vii, 
Prelude: Playing with Space Marijn Nieuwenhuis and David Crouch, ix, 
1 Space, Living, Atmospheres, Affectivities David Crouch, 1, 
2 'Knowing One's Place': Mapping Landscapes in and as Performance in Contemporary South Africa Awelani Moyo, 23, 
3 Vocalic Space: Socio-Materiality and Sonic Spatiality George Revill, 43, 
4 bell hooks's Affective Politics of Space and Belonging Yvonne Zivkovic, 63, 
5 As Tenses Implode: Encountering Post-Traumatic Urbanism in Ghassan Kanafani's Aid ila Hayfa Ghayde Ghraowi, 81, 
6 'Place' in an Inverted World? A Japanese Theory of Place Atsuko Watanabe, 97, 
7 The Invisible Lines of Territory: An Investigation into the Make-Up of Territory Marijn Nieuwenhuis, 115, 
8 Two Internet Cartographies: Google Maps and the Unmappable Darknet Andrei Belibou, 135, 
9 Space Is No One Thing: Luring Thought through Film and Philosophy Philip Conway, 151, 
10 Mayday - A Letter from the Earth Martin Gren, 167, 
Postlude: And ... And ... And ... Marijn Nieuwenhuis and David Crouch, 181, 
Index, 191, 
Notes on Contributors, 199, 

CHAPTER 1

Space, Living, Atmospheres, Affectivities

David Crouch

Multidisciplinary work on the so-called spatial turn prompts the thought of how space occurs, whether it simply, a priori, exists, a grid that fastens us down. Maybe 'it' is something that we play with. Somewhat echoing Hallam and Ingold's writing on creativity, space occurs (2007). That is, it is always unstable and fluid to a greater or lesser degree: open, of potential (Massey 2005). As individuals, we contribute to its coalescence as something with meaning. In this chapter I consider the character of its occurrence or emergence, sustainability and grasp or comprehension. Crucially, space is considered as a human process in spacing, rather than an abstract 'thing'. My focus is less on so-called broader contexts, culture and such, though they simmer. Instead, attention is on the contexts that are what humans render space, along with the swirls of influences and affects in which we live, the other-than human and broader materiality; something fleshy with varying degrees of closure and openness over time.

Deleuze and Guattari's ideas of the participatory character of spacing provide a leitmotif to this way of thinking, as will emerge shortly. Space occurs through lived practice and the relations of self, collectively, relating with others and among the spaces of practice that might now be considered in terms of affects and atmospheres. Arguably, most geographical knowledge, for example, occurs in living, shaped, perhaps even at times suppressed by academic lines of thought. Individuals in their everyday lives participate in a wide variety of creativity, participating, not merely affected by. As Stewart remarks: 'Things flash up – little worlds, bad impulses, events alive with some kind of charge' (2007: 68). Stewart considers, in the liveliness of description, the affective character of living, not its emotions with that particularly psychological pull, often subdividing each one, but in feeling, inchoately gathered: for this discussion, how space feels and may matter as it makes or breaks relations and opens or obfuscates potentialities.

Indeed, disciplines over recent years articulate increasingly fruitful mutual, distinctive engagement. Such a shared orientation is exemplified in work around space, as a focus and critical provocation. The chapter emphasizes the interactive character of space at work across this multiplicity of merging categories in the refiguring of geography across and shared by many disciplines (Crouch and Matless 1996; Crouch 2010). Moreover, of course, it is necessary to reflect critically on the role of 'givens', what is often taken to be the sum of culture, that partly contextualize but do not dominate or determine but flicker across individuals' lives intersubjectively with and through affective power. Power emerges in the everyday living too, in what emerges as gentle politics. Our doings, relations, identities and negotiations also constitute and give character to the web or dynamic that is culture. Another commingling, another resistance or avoidance, another creativity occurs. Thus, the liveliness of space is dynamic: iterative, variously felt, existing.

In confronting a more open, lived, human and beyond-the-human character of space, it is necessary, en route, to confront the old, yet still-existing duality of space and place. These cornerstones of traditional geographical thought are part of the necessary multidisciplinary reconfiguration of space. Ingold held on to a Heideggerian distinction of space-place, as one relatively external, the other something relatively fixed and enduring, closed up and situated in living, and he seeks to avoid 'space' as operating in and through people's living: travellers make their way through the country, not through space; they walk and stand on the ground (2011: 145). While the engagement of the world to which he refers is welcome, the rejection of space within our living creates questions of the human and space. Moreover, as Grosz interprets, people do not live in cities, but in networks of contacts, sites, memories and doings of lively interaction (1999).

Still David Harvey's conceptualization of time-space compression haunts much critical geographical thinking and beyond, yet while acknowledging the continued importance it holds in terms of shaping, if not producing and constructing, space, for example, in Mitchell's acute analysis of lives and spaces of singular capitalist control (2003). There are increasingly noted other components and dimensions of those constitutions of space that have become increasingly acknowledged. For example, at the other extreme of thinking, the poetic philosopher Gaston Bachelard's attention focused on the gentle intensities of small spaces: cupboards, huts, nests, corners (1994). These familiar indoor sites enabled him close intimacy with their form and the atmosphere that he felt. They do, of course, avoid wider-in-the-world attention, however. In working through these considerations, as Stewart posits, feeling is important, in a way that in her writing takes us away from a close hold of psychological formations and further out into the world. Moreover Erin Manning argues: 'This feeling – with its proprioceptive, immediately linked to our sense of balance, to our ability to space (emphasis mine) space. We don't need to put our hands on the walls to feel them, or to touch the ground to know where it is. Touch crossed with vision and sound fields the environment, opening it to the relational multiplicity of movement, sensation, and space-time co-mingling' (2009: 49). Memory, across diverse and multiple spacetimes, can be jogged into new affectivities in the performative, perhaps more than in the performance (Crouch 2003). Numerous multiple outward contexts flicker and nudge, not as primary or privileged, our living, our everfluid memory, imagination and dreaming desires; this moment – these are all contexts that roll moment to moment and gather and break.

Manning takes this approach further: '(A) feels the world. Watch her reading a book: she touches it, puts her face into it, listens to the...

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• Verlag: Rli
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1786601958
• ISBN 13: 9781786601957
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 230
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