1st Edition

Urban Emotions and the Making of the City Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Edited By Katie Barclay, Jade Riddle Copyright 2021
274 Pages 31 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

274 Pages 31 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

274 Pages 31 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book brings together a vibrant interdisciplinary mix of scholars – from anthropology, architecture, art history, film studies, fine art, history, literature, linguistics and urban studies – to explore the role of emotions in the making and remaking of the city. By asking how urban boundaries are produced through and with emotion; how emotional communities form and define themselves through... Read more

1. Urban Emotions and the Making of the City

Katie Barclay and Jade Riddle

2. Converting the Cityscape: Emotions, Religion and Civic Ritual in the Renaissance City for the Tenshō Embassy

Jessica O’Leary

3. Space, Light and Allegiance in the Piazza di Spagna in the Seventeenth Century

Lisa Beaven

4. "That One Parish of St. Giles Hath Done Us All This Mischief": Locating Fearful Places During Seventeenth-Century London Plague Times

Jade Riddle

5. Tuning In: Emotion, Sound and the Urban Landscape of Radio Broadcasting in Postwar Brussels

Nicolas Kenny

6. Good Fences: Affective Sociability, Neighbourly Relations and Australian Municipalism

Andrew J. May

7. Mapping Migration in Melbourne’s Emotional Cityscapes, 1960s–1980s

Kate Darian-Smith

8. Recognising Emotions within Urban Development

Rebecca Madgin

9. Wanti nintu’ai kapakapa? (Where Do You Push Me To?): Emotional Responses to the Re-Emerging Kaurna Linguistic Landscape in the City of Adelaide

Rob Amery

10. This Smile Is Not for You

Derek Pardue

11. Theme Park Lover: Longing and Flight Through Tourist Space in Jia Zhangke’s The World

Thomas Moran

12. From Bank to Gallery to the Sofa of Dreams: Accessing Autonomy-Supportive Transformation in Urban Sites Through Performance Art

Cecilia White

Biography

Katie Barclay is the Deputy Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence in the History of Emotions and Associate Professor of History at the University of Adelaide.

Jade Riddle works on heritage policy at a national level for the Commonwealth of Australia.