Contents

pp iii-iv

List of Figures

pp v-v

Notes on Contributors

pp vi-x

Introduction

pp 1-14

Part I - Gender and Attachment in Places and Spaces of Work

pp 15-16

1 - The Affective, Gendered Processes of Place Making: Understanding the Home Conservatory as a Place of Artistic Work

pp 17-31

2 - Placing Postfeminism and Affect: Exploring the Affective Constitution of Postfeminist Subjectivities by Leaders in the City of London

pp 32-46

3 - Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Affective Responses to Space, Objects and Atmosphere in a Writer’s House Museum

pp 47-57

4 - Trading from Home: The Affective Relations of ‘Doing Finance’ in the Domestic Setting of the Home

pp 58-74

5 - What Is the Potential of Psychoanalysis to Understand the Relationship between Space, Objects and Subject Formation?

pp 75-87

6 - Affecting a Desiring ‘Woman Worker’: A Spatial Interpretive Ethnography of a Café in India

pp 88-104

Part II - Gender, Disruption and Unsettling Spaces and Places

pp 105-106

7 - Taking Place in-as Soho: Understanding the ‘Here and There, Then and Now’ of Gender and Affect Work

pp 107-121

8 - Affective Practices and Liminal Space-making in Palestinian Refugee Camps

pp 122-138

9 - Placing Fear of Crime: Affect, Gender and Perceptions of Safety

pp 139-153

10 - To Be a Homeless Woman in Russia: Coping Strategies and Meanings of ‘Home’ on the Street

pp 154-166

Part III - Place, Gender Identity and Belonging

pp 167-168

11 - Affective Atmospheres of Finance: Gendered Impacts of Financialization within Sydney’s Barangaroo Development

pp 169-190

12 - Liminality and Affect: Knowing and Belonging among Unscripted Bodies

pp 191-205

13 - Unsettling Metronormativity: Locating Queer Youth in the Regions

pp 206-220

14 - Landscape, Gender and Belonging: Male Manual Workers in a UK Seaside Town

pp 221-234

Conclusion: Gender, Place and Affect

pp 235-244

Index

pp 245-252