Disoriented geographies: Undoing relations, encountering limits

Bissell, David; Gorman‐Murray, Andrew

doi:10.1111/tran.12307

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“…This observed feeling of disorientation, which refers to the loss of one's ability to know how to behave (Bissell and Gorman-Murray 2019), also pushed some participants to feel uncertain regarding the avoidance of everyday encounters. For instance, this was the case for a young woman (P21) living in a detached house who related not knowing quite how to communicate instructions to the delivery person while feeling uncomfortable about it.…”

Section: Awkwardness and Disorientationmentioning

confidence: 99%

The lived experience of COVID-19: housing and household resilience

Horne¹,

Willand²,

Dorignon³

et al. 2020

AHURI Final Report

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AHURI AHURI is a national independent research network with an expert not-for-profit research management company, AHURI Limited, at its centre. AHURI's mission is to deliver high quality research that influences policy development and practice change to improve the housing and urban environments of all Australians. Using high quality, independent evidence and through active, managed engagement, AHURI works to inform the policies and practices of governments and the housing and urban development industries, and stimulate debate in the broader Australian community. AHURI undertakes evidence-based policy development on a range of priority policy topics that are of interest to our audience groups, including housing and labour markets, urban growth and renewal, planning and infrastructure development, housing supply and affordability, homelessness, economic productivity, and social cohesion and wellbeing. AHURI Limited also gratefully acknowledges the contributions, both financial and in-kind, of its university research partners who have helped make the completion of this material possible. Disclaimer The opinions in this report reflect the views of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of AHURI Limited, its Board, its funding organisations or Inquiry Panel members. No responsibility is accepted by AHURI Limited, its Board or funders for the accuracy or omission of any statement, opinion, advice or information in this publication. AHURI journal AHURI Final Report journal series is a refereed series presenting the results of original research to a diverse readership of policy-makers, researchers and practitioners. Peer review statement An objective assessment of reports published in the AHURI journal series by carefully selected experts in the field ensures that material published is of the highest quality. The AHURI journal series employs a double-blind peer review of the full report, where anonymity is strictly observed between authors and referees.

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Section: Awkwardness and Disorientationmentioning

confidence: 99%

The lived experience of COVID-19: housing and household resilience

Horne¹,

Willand²,

Dorignon³

et al. 2020

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“…In geographical research, disorientation was originally developed by migration scholars to convey the loss of spatial awareness in migrant (Marcu, 2014) and Indigenous knowledge systems (Sonnenfeld, 2002). Yet as Bissell and Gorman‐Murray (2019, p. 708) point out, these efforts mostly constructed disorientation as an experience of unfamiliarity to be prevailed over, and as a temporary disposition that eventually fades away. Geographical studies of gender (Wight, 2014), led by Ahmed's exploration of queer identities (2006), increasingly challenge this approach.…”

Section: Disorientations Emotions and Verticalitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Pushing this positive spin further, Harbin argues that “experiences of bodily disorientation can strengthen the moral agency of individuals” (2012, p. 263). Bissell and Gorman‐Murray (2019) have most recently reinvigorated this notion of disorientation within a relational understanding of home, acknowledging processes of falling apart in individuals' attempts to make a home while living physically distanced from their partners.…”

Section: Disorientations Emotions and Verticalitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…They follow Massey's consideration of space as an unfinished fabric where links and relations are always “ yet to be made” (2005, p. 107) and focus on the links that fail to eventualise. Bissell and Gorman‐Murray are, however, attuned to “the feeling of distance associated with the loss of orienting relations” (2019, p. 714), rather than to the “holes” and “disconnections” Massey emphasised (2005, p. 107). Additionally, Bissell and Gorman‐Murray draw on Harbin's notion of “strain,” which frames disorientation as a limit, and explore the space left open by it.…”

Section: Disorientations Emotions and Verticalitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Conceptually, the paper both expands the application of disorientated geographies into a novel urban setting and broadens its frames of reference by examining other bodily experiences and emotions. It helps refine the lens proposed by Bissell and Gorman-Murray (2019) by further exploring the links between disorientation and home-unmaking. Here, we consider how the loss of orienting relations transpires when moving into a high-rise, particularly through residents' account of significant unmet expectations and compromise in everyday high-rise living.…”

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Disorientation in the unmaking of high‐rise homes

Dorignon

Nethercote

2021

Trans Inst British Geog

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This paper expands our understanding of vertical urbanism, and specifically the experience of home in high-rise housing, by assessing and mobilising a "disorientated geographies" approach. It follows Bissell and Gorman-Murray's recent call for researchers to better account for the logics of disconnection and undoing in geographical inquiry. Building on their exploration of "disorientated geographies," this paper examines the lived experience of three single men living in high-rise housing to revisit the high-rise as home. It aims to advance prevailing understandings of urban vertical living and more specifically of the processes through which these homes are made and unmade. Drawing on in-depth interviews with apartment dwellers in new high-rise housing in London and Melbourne, we explore residents' loss of orienting relations through their feelings of frustration, restlessness, and disappointment. We consider how these emotional states contribute to destabilise their homes as these three men struggle to comprehend and orient themselves within the sociospatial environment of the high-rise, and specifically an environment compromised by design and build quality issues. We argue that disorientation provides a useful but undervalued vantage point from which to understand the making and unmaking of vertical homes. In so doing, we foreground and sharpen understandings of the role of verticality, in particular, in these processes of home-unmaking. The contribution of the paper is two-fold. Conceptually, it both expands the application of disorientated geographies into a novel urban setting and broadens its frames of reference by examining other bodily experiences and emotions. Empirically, we advance understandings of the lived experience of vertical urbanisms by drawing new and productive links between verticality and disorientation that move us beyond consideration of purely physiological responses, such as vertigo or dizziness, to high-rise living, to better account for a fuller range of bodily, emotional, and social practices.

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