Assemblage and geography

Anderson, Ben; McFarlane, Colin

doi:10.1111/j.1475-4762.2011.01004.x

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“…Key to an assemblage is that the parts that compose it are heterogeneous and independent, and it is from the relations between the parts that the temporary, contingent whole emerges (see B. Anderson & McFarlane, 2011;B. Anderson et al, 2012).…”

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Wet Ontologies, Fluid Spaces: Giving Depth to Volume through Oceanic Thinking

2015

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Section: Matter and Timementioning

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Wet Ontologies, Fluid Spaces: Giving Depth to Volume through Oceanic Thinking

2015

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“…In time, as the RomaneIrish Bath spread to Britain and Germany and other managers and owners became involved, the form of the baths changed, with the arrival of steam in particular, making them more sauna-like in operation (Shifrin, 2013). There were other fractures within that process, evident in the ways in which urban baths departed from the Barterian template via alterations shaped by location and the commercial intent of the developers (Anderson & McFarlane, 2011). This was especially evident in the less medico-moral and more publicsocial versions of the baths at St. Stephen's Green or Lincoln Place in Dublin (Breathnach, 2004).…”

Section: Mobile Networkmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…In Anderson and McFarlane's (2011) discussion of the complexity of the assemblage idea, they provide no definitive applications or easy guides to translating the concepts into empirical form. What is valuable is their listing of four inter-related sets of processes.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Drawing from the specific processes identified by Anderson and McFarlane (2011) assemblage thinking can, I argue, be traced through the spatial articulation of the RomaneIrish Bath as a specifically therapeutic example. In the first instance, we can describe and explore the mobile networks associated with the bath as an unorthodox medical innovation, as well as its the development and diffusion, a process that was in Anderson and McFarlane's terms, gathered, made coherent and then dispersed.…”

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The Roman–Irish Bath: Medical/health history as therapeutic assemblage

Foley¹

2014

Social Science & Medicine

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a b s t r a c tThe invention of a new form of hot-air bath in Blarney, Ireland in 1856, variously known in its lifetime as the RomaneIrish or Turkish Bath, acted as the starting point for a the production of a globalised therapeutic landscape. Tracking the diffusion of the RomaneIrish bath template from its local invention in Ireland to a global reach across the Victorian world and recognizing its place within a wider hydrotherapeutic history, this paper frames that diffusion as a valuable empirical addition to assemblage theory. The specific empirical history of the spread of the RomaneIrish/Turkish bath idea is drawn from primary archival and secondary historical sources. It is then discussed and, drawing from work on assemblage theory, analyzed against three broad themes: mobile networks, socio-material practices and contested emergence. The emergent relational geographies of the RomaneIrish Bath identify important roles for the diffusion and transformation of specific medical settings, identities and functions. These were linked in turn to competing social-healing pathways wherein bodies were technologically and morally managed, to produce a more inhabited form of therapeutic assemblage. In all cases the differential diffusion of the bath idea, it's shifting and fractured material forms and multiple inhabitations and discourses were contested and mobile and spoke to an assemblage approach which has ripe potential for exploration across a range of medical/health geography settings.

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“…A city of permanent experiments is thus a provisional achievement and one that is always 'in the making'. This also connects to recent theoretical contributions on assemblage theory and sociotechnical urban systems (Anderson & McFarlane, 2011;Brenner et al, 2011;Farías, 2011;McFarlane, 2011b;Gopakumar, 2014) that recognises that cities do not have an end point but are always unfolding and evolving, they are processes rather than products. As McFarlane (2011b: 650) notes, the city here is understood as a "gathering process" rather than an end state.…”

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Innovating Climate Governance

Turnheim¹,

Kivimaa

Berkhout

2018

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Over the last decade, a multitude of urban climate change experiments have emerged to go beyond traditional role of the state in environmental governance. These activities provide a real world evidence base for how a low-carbon world could be realised and they have the potential to fundamentally change the way that cities are conceived, built, and managed. Most urban climate change experiments are designed to be geographically and temporally bounded to accelerate innovation activities and realise actual changes on the ground. But what if urban experiments did not scale up? What if, instead of informing existing modes of urban governance, they became the dominant approach to governing cities? What would a 'city of permanent experiments' look like and how would it function? This chapter speculates on the implications of experimentation as the new mode of governance for twenty-first century cities. Here, experiments are not interpreted as one-off trials to provide evidence and justification for new low-carbon policies, regulations, and service provision; instead, they are emerging as a new mode of governance in themselves. This emerging form of urban governance is characterised by uncertainty, recursive learning processes, and spatial fragmentation with multiple unknown implications on the politics of cities in the future.

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Assemblage and geography

Abstract: In this introduction to the special section on 'Assemblage and geography ' , we

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Wet Ontologies, Fluid Spaces: Giving Depth to Volume through Oceanic Thinking

Wet Ontologies, Fluid Spaces: Giving Depth to Volume through Oceanic Thinking

The Roman–Irish Bath: Medical/health history as therapeutic assemblage

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