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1st Edition

Geographies of Comfort

Edited By Danny McNally, Laura Price, Philip Crang Copyright 2021
298 Pages 22 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

298 Pages 22 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

298 Pages 22 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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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. Comfort and discomfort have assumed a central position in a range of works examining the relations between place and emotion, the senses, affect and materiality. This book argues that... Read more

1. Towards Geographies of Comfort

Laura Price, Danny McNally and Philip Crang

Part 1: Bodies and Environments

2. Transitioning Comforts: Organising Bodies for Urban Commuting Mobilities

David Bissell

3. Beyond the ‘Comfort Zone’: Experiencing and Responding to Everyday Weather

Eliza De Vet

4. (Re)Creating a Sense of Comfort: Post-Disaster Homemaking

Stephanie Harel

5. ‘Goodnight, Sleep Tight’: Bedtime Stories, Picture-Book Bedrooms and Tales of Comfort

Jamie Adcock

Part 2: Difference and Encounter

6. The Geopolitics of (Dis)Comfort and Indifference in Israel-Palestine

Daniel Webb

7. Homely Comforts Abroad: Navigating the Comfort Zone(s) Within International Student Mobility

Laura Prazeres

8. "Economia da Saudade": Comfort Food for London’s Brazilian Diaspora

Maria das Graças S. L. Brightwell

9. Assembling a Great Way to Fly: Performances of Comfort in the Air

Weiqiang Lin

Part 3: Materiality and Texture

10. Comfort, Identity and Fashion in the Post-Socialist City

Mark Jayne

11. Cosy, Comforting, Disruptive? Knitting and Knitters In/Out of Place

Laura Price

12. A Correspondence with Water: On the (Dis)Comforts of the Swimming Pool

Miranda Ward

Part 4: Health and Wellbeing

13. Picturing Dis/Comforting Geographies: Place, Punctum and Photography

Andrew Gorman-Murray

14. Between Bodies and Buildings: The Place of Comfort within Therapeutic Spaces

Daryl Martin

15. Feeling Good, Looking Good: Comfort and the Technologies of Beauty in the Spa

Jo Little and Katherine Morton

Biography

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.

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