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Title Ecologies of affect : placing nostalgia, desire, and hope / Tonya K. Davidson, Ondine Park, and Rob Shields, editors
Published Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, ©2011 (Ottawa, Ontario : Canadian Electronic Library, 2013)

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 346 pages) : illustrations, digital file
Series Canadian commentaries
Canadian commentaries.
Contents "Not everything was good, but many things were better" : nostalgia for East Germany and its politics / Anne Winkler -- Nostalgia and postmemories of a lost place : actualizing "my virtual homeland" / Tonya K. Davidson -- Placing nostalgia : the process of returning and remaking home / Allison Hui -- From disease to desire : the afflicated amalgamation of music and nostalgia / Mickey Vallee -- The tourist affect : escape and syncresis on the Las Vegas strip / Rob Shields -- (In)human desiring and extended agency / Matthew Tiessen -- Cityscapes of desire : urban change in post-Soviet Russia / Olga Pak -- Illustrating desires : the idea and the promise of the suburb in two children's books / Ondine Park -- The virtual places of childhood : hope and the micro-politics of race at an inner-city youth centre / Bonar Buffam -- Virtual resurrections : Che Guevara's image as place of hope / Maria-Carolina Cambre -- Performing spaces of hope : street puppetry and the aesthetics of scale / Petra Hroch -- The spatial distribution of hope in and beyond Fort McMurray / Sara Dorow and Goze Dogu -- Spectacular enclosures of 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 [and others]
Summary 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 not abstractions but are fundamentally tied to and resolve around such intangibles. We understand nostalgia, desire, and hope as virtual; that is, even though they are not material, they are nonetheless 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Social ecology.
Cultural geography.
Geographical perception.
Social Environment
human ecology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Cultural geography
Geographical perception
Social ecology
Form Electronic book
Author Shields, Rob, 1961-
Park, Ondine, 1974-
Davidson, Tonya K., 1979-
ISBN 9781554583126
1554583128