Gendering Place and Affect

“Unpacking the interrelationships between bodies, place and space, Gendering Place and Affect is a wonderfully imaginative, beautifully written and richly diverse collection of essays that take our understanding of ‘affect’ into imaginative new territories. Although drawn from a wide range of academic disciplines, the collection coheres, not only through the quality of scholarship and the dazzling originality of the ideas, but also around the fact that the contributions are clearly passion projects. Every chapter is a delight, bringing affective encounters to life in unexpected and thought-provoking ways.” Yvonne Jewkes, University of Bath

“This work does a good job of weaving together and advancing scholarship across the three key themes, representing an impressive range of cultural contexts and thematic foci.” Kate Boyer, Cardiff University

“This work does a good job of weaving together and advancing scholarship across the three key themes, representing an impressive range of cultural contexts and thematic foci.” Kate Boyer, Cardiff University

Alex Simpson is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Macquarie University.

Ruth Simpson is Emeritus Professor of Management at Brunel University.

Darren Baker is Assistant Professor of Responsible Leadership at Monash University.

Introduction - Alex Simpson and Ruth Simpson

PART I: Gender and Attachment in Places and Spaces of Work

1. The Affective, Gendered Processes of Place Making: Understanding the Home Conservatory as a Place of Artistic Work - Nick Rumens

2. Placing Postfeminism and Affect: Exploring the Affective Constitution of Postfeminist Subjectivities by Leaders in the City of London - Patricia Lewis

3. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Affective Responses to Space, Objects and Atmosphere in a Writer’s House Museum - Jessica Horne

4. Trading from Home: The Affective Relations of ‘Doing Finance’ in the Domestic Setting of the Home - Corina Sheerin and Alex Simpson

5. What Is the Potential of Psychoanalysis to Understand the Relationship between Space, Objects and Subject Formation? - Darren T. Baker

6. Affecting a Desiring ‘Woman Worker’: A Spatial Interpretive Ethnography of a Café in India - Rajeshwari Chennangodu and George Kandathil

PART II: Gender, Disruption and Unsettling Spaces and Places

7. Taking Place in-as Soho: Understanding the ‘Here and There, Then and Now’ of Gender and Affect Work - Melissa Tyler

8. Affective Practices and Liminal Space-making in Palestinian Refugee Camps - Alison Hirst and Christina Schwabenland

9. Placing Fear of Crime: Affect, Gender and Perceptions of Safety - Murray Lee

10. To Be a Homeless Woman in Russia: Coping Strategies and Meanings of ‘Home’ on the Street - Evgeniia Kuziner

PART III: Place, Gender Identity and Belonging

11. Affective Atmospheres of Finance: Gendered Impacts of Financialization within Sydney’s Barangaroo Development - Alex Simpson and Paul McGuinness

12. Liminality and Affect: Knowing and Belonging among Unscripted Bodies - Nyk Robertson

13. Unsettling Metronormativity: Locating Queer Youth in the Regions - Nicholas Hill, Katherine Johnson, Anna Hickey-Moody, Troy Innocent and Dan Harris

14. Landscape, Gender and Belonging: Male Manual Workers in a UK Seaside Town - Ruth Simpson and Rachel Morgan

Conclusion: Gender, Place and Affect - Ruth Simpson and Alex Simpson