Emotion

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Emotions in geography

Emotions have become increasingly more important in the field of geography. Encounters wih places, landscapes, cityscapes or new forms of politics have resulted in the engagement with the emotional and affective qualites of the social world. Everts et al (2011, p.327) provide an example: Nigel Thrift and other have attented to the ways capitalism and leoliberal orders are sustained through the engineering of affect, such as through the purposeful design of cityscapes that elicit playful consumerism and oust political activism. From the humanistic geography point of view, the central aim of which was to analyse the sense of place, the various attachments, wants, desires and fears that characterise the experience of rooms, buildings, cities or landscapes (Everts et al, 2011, p.327).

Example

An example that emotion is influencing buildings is the presence of suicide-nets. To prevent people kill themself by throwing themself of a high builing, governments have placed suicide-nets as seen on the picture.

References

• Everts, J., Lahr-Kurten, M. & Watson, M. (2011). Practise Matters! Geographical inquiry and theories of practice. -Erdkunde, Vol.65, No.4

Contributors

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