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Geographies of Comfort

TaschenbuchKartoniert, Paperback
282 Seiten
Englisch
Taylor & Franciserschienen am31.05.2023
Bringing together conceptual and empirical research from leading thinkers, this book critically examines comfort´ in everyday life in an era of continually occurring social, political and environmental changes.mehr
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KlappentextBringing together conceptual and empirical research from leading thinkers, this book critically examines comfort´ in everyday life in an era of continually occurring social, political and environmental changes.
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-0-367-68261-3
ProduktartTaschenbuch
EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback
FormatTrade Paperback (USA)
Erscheinungsjahr2023
Erscheinungsdatum31.05.2023
Seiten282 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
MasseBreite 156 mm, Höhe 234 mm, Dicke 16 mm
Gewicht422 g
Artikel-Nr.11190216

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
1 Towards geographies of comfort 1LAURA PRICE, DANNY McNALLY, AND PHILIP CRANGSECTION ONEBodies and environments 232 Transitioning comforts: bodily evaluations of urban mobilities 25DAVID BISSELL3 Beyond the comfort zone´: experiencing and responding to everyday weather 43ELIZA DE VET4 (Re)creating a sense of comfort: post-disaster homemaking 65STEPHANIE HAREL5 Goodnight, sleep tight´: bedtime stories, picture-book bedrooms and tales of comfort 82JAMIE ADCOCKContentsvi ContentsSECTION TWODifference and encounter 996 The geopolitics of (dis)comfort and indifference in Israel-Palestine 101DANIEL WEBB7 Homely comforts abroad: navigating the comfort zone(s) within international student mobility 121LAURA PRAZERES8 Economia da Saudade´: comfort food for London´s Brazilian diaspora 137MARIA DAS GRACAS BRIGHTWELL9 Assembling a great way to fly: performances of comfort in the air 151WEIQIANG LINSECTION THREEMateriality and texture 17110 Comfort, identity and fashion in the post-socialist city 173MARK JAYNE11 Cosy, comforting, disruptive? knitting and knitters in/out of place 194LAURA PRICE12 A correspondence with water: on the (dis)comforts of the swimming pool 206MIRANDA WARDSECTION FOURHealth and wellbeing 21713 Picturing dis/comforting geographies: place, punctum and photography 219ANDREW GORMAN-MURRAY14 Between bodies and buildings: the place of comfort within therapeutic spaces 238DARYL MARTIN15 Feeling good, looking good: comfort and the technologies of beauty in the spa 258JO LITTLE AND KATHERINE MORTONmehr

Autor

Danny McNally is Lecturer in Geography at Teesside University. His research draws from cultural and social geography, and art theory and practice to explore pressing social and environmental issues. He has a PhD in Cultural Geography from Royal Holloway, University of London.

Laura Price is Research and Project Manager at PositiveNegatives based in SOAS, University of London. She is also co-editor of Geographies of Making, Craft and Creativity published by Routledge in 2018. Her research explores feminist geography, education, craft and creativity.

Philip Crang is Professor of Cultural Geography at Royal Holloway University of London. He was editor of the journal Cultural Geographies from 1999 to 2008. His research is concerned with the material textures of places and the mobilities of people, things and ideas that constitute them.