{"title":"On the technological unconscious: thinking the (a)signifying production of subjects and bodies with sonographic imaging","authors":"Thomas P. Keating","doi":"10.1080/14649365.2022.2083665","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2022.2083665","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper develops the notion of the technological unconscious by engaging with the geographic relationship between technology and the production of subjectivity. Drawing upon research with the Alternate Anatomies Laboratory in Australia, the paper advances this relationship through an empirical encounter with sonographic imaging. Contributing to conceptualisations of the ways technologies participate in unconscious activity, in this paper ultrasound imaging (sonography) is turned to as one way to think about the enunciation of subjectivity that assists the ultrasound technician in homing-in to particular signifying and a-signifying semiotic cues. Rather than siding with broad understandings of the technological unconscious, the paper articulates the production of specific processes of the technological unconscious via machinic enunciation, which reveals ways of rethinking human-technology relationships through infra-sensible semiotic operations.","PeriodicalId":48072,"journal":{"name":"Social & Cultural Geography","volume":"69 1","pages":"1481 - 1500"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2022-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77505246","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"No taste like home: geographies of private home dining","authors":"T. Chang, Sharmaine Toh, Palabras Clave","doi":"10.1080/14649365.2022.2084147","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2022.2084147","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Private home dining (PHD) is gaining popularity around the world. The PHD is an example of a sharing economy in which guests enter the homes of amateur chefs for a shared experiential meal. This paper explores the social and spatial dimensions of PHD in Singapore from the perspectives of hosts and guests. For the hosts, PHD events mean opening their home to the public and in the process, taking on new roles as cook, guide and cultural ambassador. From the guests’ perspective, dining in a novel environment brings new experiences, exposing them to new people, knowledge and skills. A mixed-methods approach comprising mainly interviews and participant observations was adopted in this research. The findings reveal that PHD transforms home spaces yet retains the essence of home; compels members of a household to perform multiple roles simultaneously; facilitates the process of home-making; and encourages guests to actively engage as co-producers of their own cultural and culinary experiences.","PeriodicalId":48072,"journal":{"name":"Social & Cultural Geography","volume":"2 1","pages":"1672 - 1690"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80035264","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Building relations: assembling an auto-geography of the diplomatic home","authors":"Timo Sysiö","doi":"10.1080/14649365.2022.2083666","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2022.2083666","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Geographic literature on diplomatic spatiality has largely focused on the official sites of diplomacy, while neglecting the importance of the diplomatic home in everyday working life. Considering this gap in the literature, the present article extends the recent interest in critical geographies of home and considers its potential in furthering our understanding of interstate diplomacy. The paper assembles the affective atmospheres of the diplomatic home through a bottom-up perspective that combines the author’s personal experiences as a Finnish career diplomat inhabiting a middle-class Turkish apartment with the oral accounts of his houseguests. Attention is given to the creation of images of national culture and design through micro-scale country-branding efforts. The analysis shows that while home atmospheres can be manipulated for diplomatic ends, there are also disjunctures between idealised designs and the embodied experiences of diplomatic houseguests. The article ends by discussing the implications of the present study for the literature on critical geographies of diplomacy.","PeriodicalId":48072,"journal":{"name":"Social & Cultural Geography","volume":"1 1","pages":"1636 - 1653"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82157143","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Missed connections? Everyday mobility experiences and the sociability of public transport in Amsterdam during COVID-19","authors":"Monik Kokkola, Anna Nikolaeva, M. Brömmelstroet","doi":"10.1080/14649365.2022.2084148","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2022.2084148","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Various measures to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 have altered mobility flows worldwide and caused people to adopt new ways of being and moving in public space. These changes have been considerably pronounced across modes of public transportation. This paper explores the experiences of individuals who continued riding and working in public transport throughout the pandemic to yield insight into changing mobility meanings and grounded realities of urban mobility processes in the context of COVID-19 and beyond. Through the combined analysis of ethnographic fieldwork, participant observations and interviews, the paper unpacks lived experiences of riding and working in public transport in the city of Amsterdam during lockdown by addressing the changed nature of embodied encounters and mobile sociability in public transit. Findings denote that COVID-19 has altered the conditions of mobile sociability in spaces of public transport, and has produced complex experiences of daily travel with others involving mutually negative and positive impressions. As a result, we argue that when challenged by COVID-19 related restrictions, mobile sociability and fleeting encounters on the move significantly shape the experience of traveling with others in ways that call into question how we think of public transport as a social space in cities.","PeriodicalId":48072,"journal":{"name":"Social & Cultural Geography","volume":"40 1","pages":"1693 - 1712"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87100352","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A place where there is no need to explain: LGBTQ Muslims, collective disidentification and queer space in Brussels, Belgium","authors":"A. Boussalem","doi":"10.1080/14649365.2022.2083667","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2022.2083667","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article discusses the communities of support that LGBTQ people from a Muslim background in Brussels build with other racialized LGBTQ people, and the spaces of disidentification and resistance that these produce. It does so by analysing qualitative data collected over a year of ethnographic research with LGBTQ people from a Muslim background in Brussels. In particular, the article focuses on the functions that queer de color communities serve in the lives of research participants. It shows how communication in these often takes place on a non-verbal level, in contrast to a ‘pressure to explain’ that marks participants’ interactions in other contexts, and the sense of mutual recognition, understanding and political empowerment this communication produces. The article then discusses how the co-presence of LGBTQ people from a Muslim background and their collective resignification of cultural scripts produce counterpublic spaces that have the potential to disrupt social norms and dominant imaginations of difference.","PeriodicalId":48072,"journal":{"name":"Social & Cultural Geography","volume":"75 4","pages":"1654 - 1671"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2022-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72371304","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Watching embryos: exploring the geographies of assisted reproduction through encounters with embryo imaging technologies","authors":"J. Hamper, M. Perrotta","doi":"10.1080/14649365.2022.2073467","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2022.2073467","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT New biomedical imaging technologies, which enable embryologists to observe the development of human embryos, are presenting new possibilities for the lived geographies of assisted reproduction. More specifically, these technologies produce novel visual representations of in vitro embryos that can be shared with fertility patients as a way to involve them in their treatment, and we explore how this imagery circulates in places and relationships beyond the fertility clinic with diverse effects. Drawing on empirical material from interviews with both patients and partners undergoing in vitro fertilisation (IVF) in the UK, this article critically examines how encounters with embryo imagery create spatially and temporally extended as well as intimate relationships between people and a particular kind of reproductive bioinformation. Through this, we advance geographical approaches to embodied encounters with assisted reproductive technologies, biomedicine and bioinformation, as well as social and cultural conceptualisations of the mobilities of extracorporeal embryos and their visual representations. Patients and partners’ engagements with a new form of reproductive bioinformation provide important insights into the making of new reproductive knowledge and experience.","PeriodicalId":48072,"journal":{"name":"Social & Cultural Geography","volume":"82 1","pages":"1557 - 1575"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2022-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87103069","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Animated lands: studies in territoriology","authors":"G. Waitt","doi":"10.1080/14649365.2022.2077571","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2022.2077571","url":null,"abstract":"Ferenčuhová, S. (2016). Explicit definitions and implicit assumptions about post-socialist cities in academic writings. Geography Compass, 10(12), 514–524. https://doi.org/10.1111/gec3.12282 Gentile, M. (2018). Three metals and the ‘post-socialist city’: Reclaiming the peripheries of urban knowledge. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 42(6), 1140–1151. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.12552 Hirt, S., Ferenčuhová, S., & Tuvikene, T. (2016). Conceptual forum: The “post-socialist” city. Eurasian Geography and Economics, 57(4–5), 497–520. https://doi.org/10.1080/15387216.2016.1271345 Zarecor, K. E. (2018). What was so socialist about the socialist city? Second world urbanity in Europe. Journal of Urban History, 44(1), 95–117. https://doi.org/10.1177/0096144217710229","PeriodicalId":48072,"journal":{"name":"Social & Cultural Geography","volume":"24 1","pages":"382 - 383"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2022-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44827407","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Wastelands to Wetlands: questioning wellbeing futures in urban greening","authors":"D. Kelly, C. Maller, Leila Mahmoudi Farahani","doi":"10.1080/14649365.2022.2073468","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2022.2073468","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT With a myriad of associated health, ecological and social benefits, urban greening has become a prominent policy strategy to renew historically neglected sites in cities, so popular that its implementation often eludes scrutiny. Utilising resident interviews, this paper investigates the distribution of ‘wellbeing’ narratives and objectives in such transformations. We demonstrate how affinities with nature are utilised to hasten green happy-futures, whilst neglecting to address ongoing questions of social and environmental justice. This paper foregrounds these injustices by attending to the affective dimensions of past and present experiences of environmental damage, advocating for the prioritisation of caring-futures over happy-futures in urban greening imaginaries.","PeriodicalId":48072,"journal":{"name":"Social & Cultural Geography","volume":"34 1","pages":"1576 - 1597"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2022-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82677759","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Socialist and post-socialist urbanisms: critical reflections from a global perspective","authors":"J. Kočková","doi":"10.1080/14649365.2022.2077570","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2022.2077570","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48072,"journal":{"name":"Social & Cultural Geography","volume":"24 1","pages":"380 - 382"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2022-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46818997","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Care crises and care fixes under Covid-19: the example of transnational live-in care work","authors":"Sarah Schilliger, Karin Schwiter, J. Steiner","doi":"10.1080/14649365.2022.2073608","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2022.2073608","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The COVID-19 pandemic brought care work to the forefront of attention. In many countries in the Global North, people became painfully aware that they had ‘outsourced’ a considerable share of this work to temporary migrants. Travel restrictions and lockdown measures disrupted transnational care arrangements and threatened the continuous provision of care. This article uses the example of transnationally organised live-in care in Switzerland to explore measures implemented to maintain care provision during the pandemic. Particularly, it investigates the impacts of these measures on the working conditions and lives of live-in care workers. We build on Emma Dowling’s conceptualisation of ‘care fixes’ and Brigitte Aulenbacher’s notions of ‘abstraction’ and ‘appropriation’ to identify three short-term solutions and argue that they did not solve, but rather only displaced the underlying care crisis. Our insights are based on the analysis of policy documents, 32 in-depth interviews and informal conversations with workers, clients, care agencies and other experts carried out in Switzerland between April 2020 and April 2021. We emphasise the inequalities implicated in transnational care arrangements and their inherent fragility, both of which were exacerbated by the pandemic. We tentatively point to avenues for contestation and for a revaluation of care, which opened up as result of the pandemic-induced disruption of care.","PeriodicalId":48072,"journal":{"name":"Social & Cultural Geography","volume":"24 1","pages":"391 - 408"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2022-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45824803","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}