Sensing scalarity: Towards a humanistic approach to scale

Linder, Benjamin

doi:10.1177/03091325211018748

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“…Researchers have argued that “changing im/mobilities that accompanied fortified borders call for a more experiential understanding of scale that places sensorial and emotional matters at the centre” (Linder, 2022; Paasi et al, 2022, p. 8). This article has therefore sought to advance our knowledge on the emotional impact of living in a postconflict society marred by rising tensions over territory and restrictions on mobility.…”

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A qualitative investigation into the emotional geographies of border politics in “postconflict” Cyprus.

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2024

Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology

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In 2020, border politics in Cyprus were brought into sharp focus. Since 2003, Cypriots have been able to cross the Green Line, which has separated Turkish Cypriots and Greek Cypriots into the north and south of the island since 1974. However, the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in the closure of the crossing points between the two communities in February 2020. This had a significant impact on mobility across the island. Furthermore, in October 2020, the partial opening of Varosha, a city abandoned following the Turkish intervention in 1974 resulted in protests across Cyprus. Both events demonstrate the fragility of peace on an island marked by violence. This article aims to investigate the emotional impact of living in a society marred by rising tensions over territory and restrictions on mobility. Whilst the political narratives and dynamics of the Cyprus problem tend to dominate, I use qualitative methodologies (interviews and site visits) to pay particular attention to the lived experiences of the everyday people on both sides of the Green Line who are affected by the division. Finally, through an emotional geography lens, I argue that the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent border closure and reopening of Varosha's beachfront have brought forth feelings of frustration, betrayal, fear, and anxiety in terms of how people conceptualize division on the island. Public Significance StatementThis article contributes to an important body of work on emotional geographies in postconflict societies. Focusing on two significant events that occurred in Cyprus during a period of uncertainty and transition, I highlight the personal accounts of those on the island affected by changing border policies. This research argues that emotion is often overlooked yet plays a crucial role in how people conceptualize both the division on the island, and the ongoing "Cyprus Problem.

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A qualitative investigation into the emotional geographies of border politics in “postconflict” Cyprus.

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2024

Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology

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“…Differences between weather and climate are then not differences in modes of givenness (experience or measurement), but in the temporal and spatial scale of their sensing (on sensing across scales, see also Horn, 2018; Lindner, 2021). In climate-sensing, we position ourselves both spatially and temporally in the world.…”

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Sensing weather and climate: Phenomenological and ethnographic approaches

Hepach

Lüder

2023

Environment and Planning F

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In light of the increasing tendency to view extreme weather events as experiences of climate change, we revisit how weather and climate are measured and experienced, contributing to an ongoing dialogue on the atmospheric between phenomenology, media studies and geography. We make use of and complicate the concept of sensing to make sense of the heterogeneous modes of experiencing and measuring weather. First, we detail the history and phenomenology of weather between experience and measurement. Providing evidence for our theoretical account, we go through two ethnographic examples of weather-sensing, looking at the work of meteorologists and a weather-machine. From weather-sensing, we extrapolate the possibility of climate-sensing to aid in the comprehension of climate change. Sensing, we conclude, promises to reconnect weather and climate, the measured and experienced, the proximate and remote, the bodily and abstract.

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“…Theorisations of a socio-ecological precarity as a temporal-scalar issue have been aided by rich and multifaceted framings of, and approaches to, ‘scale’ and ‘scalarity’ – for example, see Blakey’s (2021) discussion of the politics of scale through Rancière and Linder’s (2022) humanistic reading of scale. Drawing on Massey (2005), Strauss (2018) has emphasised the need to approach precarity as a socio-spatial concept, by investigating how scale is relationally and phenomenologically constructed and experienced.…”

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Socio-ecological precarity at the juncture of multiple crises

Petrova

2023

Progress in Human Geography

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Drawing upon the literature on the critical geographies of precarity, as well as feminist readings of non- and more-than-human geographies and political ecologies, this review proposes a socio-ecological precarity framеwork to address gaps in discussions and examinations of nonhuman vulnerabilities, forms of resistance, and infrastructures of conviviality and care. Socio-ecological precarity is posited as relational, politically generative, and transformative.

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Sensing scalarity: Towards a humanistic approach to scale

Cited by 10 publications

References 75 publications

A qualitative investigation into the emotional geographies of border politics in “postconflict” Cyprus.

A qualitative investigation into the emotional geographies of border politics in “postconflict” Cyprus.

Sensing weather and climate: Phenomenological and ethnographic approaches

Socio-ecological precarity at the juncture of multiple crises

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