Database research record2015·Europe
Gefühlsräume - Raumgefühle: Perspektiven auf die Verschränkung von emotionalen Praktiken und Topografien der Moderne
Benno Gammerl, Rainer Herrn
Goldsmiths (University of London)
Urban Farm DB summary
A theoretical essay (in German and English, from a European context) on the tension between affect that disrupts ordered structures and the emotional processing of power-laden spatial relations. It uses practices of urban gardening and debates about gentrification as its examples, arguing that analyzing the dynamic interplay between spaces and emotions is fruitful for a critical view of urbanity - explicitly linking urban gardening practices to gentrification as an exclusionary dynamic.