Affective practices in the European city of encounter

Yeoh, Brenda S. A.

doi:10.1080/13604813.2015.1051744

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“…Yet, while displacement (spatial and affective) may not be a totalizing framework, social structures and power dynamics still condition the possibilities for young people, as choices and access are hampered by lack of social, cultural and financial capital (Wadsley and Butcher, ). There are signs of belonging but there is also a need to move beyond arguments of ‘cosmopolitan hope' (Yeoh, ; also Kraftl, ) when moments of reflexivity generated in encounter are underpinned by feelings of no longer belonging. Given this context, documenting the impact of the mechanisms and deployment of power relations within processes of gentrification from young people's perspectives becomes part of broadening understandings of the diverse responses to urban change.…”

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“…Within the density of debates surrounding affect, there are three areas of relevance in particular for this study: its intersubjective nature, the production of collective affect (atmosphere), and its intensity. It has been argued that the ‘closeness of urban life' generates the intersubjective entanglements of bodies, and bodies and the built environment (Simonsen and Koefoed, : 522; see also Ahmed, ; Harker, ; Conradson and Latham, ; Kraftl, ; Dirksmeier and Helbrecht, ; Yeoh, ). In addition, as Thrift (: 62) has argued, affect is not only the property of an encounter, but serves to structure it, ‘so that bodies are disposed for action in a particular way'.…”

Section: Youth and Gentrificationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Differentiated from individualized emotions, the atmospheres of collective affect can ‘press upon' the residents of particular spaces (Anderson, ). This can be demonstrated in the transformation of neighbourhoods into hostile or welcoming places (Yeoh, ). The ambience of a place such as Broadway Market (discussed below), now visibly populated by young professionals colloquially known as ‘hipsters', or the imposing blocks of new ‘affordable luxury' condominiums that replace social housing estates, generated atmospheres of exclusion for the young people involved in this study.…”

Section: Youth and Gentrificationmentioning

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Spatial Dislocation and Affective Displacement: Youth Perspectives on Gentrification in London

Butcher

Dickens

2016

Int J Urban Regional Res

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Analyses of contemporary processes of gentrification have been primarily produced from adult perspectives with little focus on how age affects or mediates urban change. However, in analysing young people's responses to transformations in their neighbourhood we argue that there is evidence for a more complex relationship between ‘gentrifiers' and residents than existing arguments of antagonism or tolerance would suggest. Using a participatory video methodology to document experiences of gentrification in the east London borough of Hackney, we found that young people involved in this study experienced their transforming city through processes of spatial dislocation and affective displacement. The former incorporated a sense of disorientation in the temporal disjunctions of the speed of change, while the latter invoked the embodiment of a sense of not belonging generated within classed and intercultural interactions. However, there are expressions of ambivalence rather than straightforward rejection. Benefits of gentrification were noted, including conditions of alterity and the possibility to transcend normative behaviours that they found uncomfortable. Young people demonstrated the capacity to reimagine their relationship with the complex spaces they call home. The findings suggest a need to reframe debates on gentrification to include a more nuanced understanding of its differential impact on young people.

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Spatial Dislocation and Affective Displacement: Youth Perspectives on Gentrification in London

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Dickens

2016

Int J Urban Regional Res

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“…Not only do agents work with their counterparts in countries of origin to recruit and deploy women to families in Singapore, they also play a large role in mitigating domestic workers’ access to urban social participation, such as by helping to determine their number of days off. Because migrant women's access to public space is so often barricaded by employers and agents, it is critical to grasp how temporary labour migrants’ encounters with the Asian city are mediated by migration brokers (Schuermans, ; Yeoh, ).…”

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Choreographing the rhythms of encounter in Singapore's maid agencies

Wee

Goh

Yeoh

2019

Trans Inst British Geog

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This paper builds on Lefebvre's concept of rhythmanalysis in order to extend our understanding of geographies of encounter in everyday social life. Focusing on the encounters that take place at maid agencies that match migrant domestic workers with local employers in Singapore, we develop the conceptual construct of choreography to show how bodies in spaces of encounter are rhythmically ordered to move through space in particular ways at specific speeds and times. The concept is also useful in studying encounters between migrants and citizens not just as serendipitous events but as purposively designed. Foregrounding the tangled relationalities that exist between maid agents, domestic workers, and employers, we show how employers’ interactions with the materialities of the migration industry – such as the spatial arrangement of the maid agency and the biodata used in the selection of workers – set particular diagrammatic rhythms into motion, prefiguring corporeal migrant–local encounters before they begin. We depict migrant women's punctuated rhythms of moving and waiting, revealing how the eurythmia of the maid agency both conceals and is dependent on the arrhythmia of their bodies. Finally, by emphasising that choreography requires both design and performance, we investigate how migrant women are able to overturn the ordering of rhythms through improvisational moments. Attending to the practices of the maid agency allows us to reveal how relations of power between migrants and locals are reproduced within contexts of temporary labour migration.

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“…Split across national borders for prolonged, often unpredictable lengths of time, low-wage migrants and their left-behind family members sustain the “transnational family” through continuous circuits of money, material goods, care, and affection between home and host countries (Yeoh 2015 ). For many migrant-sending families in Southeast Asian source countries such as Indonesia and the Philippines, an important component of “doing family” across borders relates to negotiations around temporal modalities of care for the well-being of children in the absence of one or both parents.…”

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Doing Family in “Times of Migration”: Care Temporalities and Gender Politics in Southeast Asia

Yeoh

Somaiah

Lam

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Annals of the American Association of Geographers

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The prevailing labor migration regime in Asia is underpinned by rotating-door principles of enforced transience, where low-wage migrant labor gains admission into host nation-states based on short-term, timelimited contracts and where family reunification and permanent settlement at destination are explicitly prohibited. In this context, we ask how migrant-sending families in Southeast Asian "source" countries-Indonesia and the Philippines-sustain family life in the long-term absence of one or both parents (often mothers). Through temporal concepts of rhythm, rupture, and reversal, we focus on how temporal modalities of care for left-behind children intersect with gendered power geometries in animating transnational family politics around care. First, by paying heed to the structuring effects of rhythm on social life, we show how routinized care rhythms built around mothers as caregivers have a normalizing and naturalizing effect on the conduct of social life and commonplace understanding of family well-being. Second, we explore the potential rupture to care rhythms triggered by the migration of mothers turned breadwinners and the extent to which gendered care regimes are either conserved, reconstituted, or disrupted in everyday patterns and practices of care. Third, we examine the circumstances under which gender role reversal becomes enduring, gains legitimacy among a range of poly care rhythms, or is quickly undone with the return migration of mothers in homecoming. The analysis is based primarily on research on Indonesian and Filipino rural households conducted in 2017 using paired life story interviews with children and their parental or nonparental adult caregivers.

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Affective practices in the European city of encounter

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Cited by 9 publications

References 18 publications

Spatial Dislocation and Affective Displacement: Youth Perspectives on Gentrification in London

Spatial Dislocation and Affective Displacement: Youth Perspectives on Gentrification in London

Choreographing the rhythms of encounter in Singapore's maid agencies

Doing Family in “Times of Migration”: Care Temporalities and Gender Politics in Southeast Asia

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