‘Pour votre tranquillité’: Ambiance, atmosphere, and surveillance

Adey, Peter; Brayer, Laure; Masson, Damien; Murphy, Patrick; Simpson, Paul; Tixier, Nicolas

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2013.04.028

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“…The concept of the atmosphere, or the 'affective atmosphere', has received a significant amount of attention in recent years in geography (Adey and Bissell, 2010;Adey et al, 2013;Anderson, 2009;Bissell, 2010;McCormack, 2008). Concerns about atmosphere have emerged as writers on affect have attempted to explore further the relationship between space and bodies and, specifically, how changes in the constitution of a space, whether in its characteristics or in the bodies within it, alter the affective experience of these spaces.…”

Section: Assemblage Urbanism and Atmospherementioning

confidence: 99%

Beyond night-time economy: Affective atmospheres of the urban night

Shaw

2014

Geoforum

141

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The full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. Keywords: Night-time economy; Assemblage; Affective Atmospheres; Urban Geography; Practices 'Assemblage urbanism' has come to the fore in attempts to bring together practice, affect and materialist oriented approaches to understanding what the city is and how it functions. Assemblage urbanism has emphasised the continuous construction and production of the city through practices and the movement of materials (Anderson et al., 2012;McCann and Ward, 2011;McFarlane, 2011). This places new questions at the centre of urban studies, as part of a wider shift in the epistemology of geography and social science. The key issues for research become: "how do things fit together and hold together across differences? How to think the irreducible contingency of order?" (Anderson and Harrison, 2010:18). This paper is an attempt to explore these questions in relation to the night time city. To date, research into the night-time city spread across criminology, geography, sociology, anthropology, history, epidemiology and more has captured and explored the changing nature of cities at night, as new sorts of spaces, which Chatterton and Hollands (2002)

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Section: Assemblage Urbanism and Atmospherementioning

confidence: 99%

Beyond night-time economy: Affective atmospheres of the urban night

Shaw

2014

Geoforum

141

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“…Following Thrift's (2004, p. 64) premise that cities are designed or engineered to evoke 'a sense of push in the world' , geographers working with affect and ambiences have been using encounters with architectural space to momentarily pin down how certain intensities are increasing or decreasing the capacities for bodies to act in space (Adey, 2008;Adey et al, 2013;Allen, 2006;Kraftl & Adey, 2008;paterson, 2011). Such accounts explore how the continuous 'redesigning' of buildings has the potential to influence particular movements, feelings and flows such as a sense of homeliness, peacefulness or security.…”

Section: Space Architecture and Architectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Spatial agency and practising architecture beyond buildings

Lorne

2016

Social & Cultural Geography

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This paper provides new direction for geographic scholarship on architecture by focusing upon architectural projects that go well beyond designing and producing material objects. Recent work on practising architectures by social and cultural geographers has examined the multiple processes of human and non-human actors that cohere and congeal to produce buildings. Responding to concerns that geographers are failing to work closely with architects, I introduce ideas of spatial agency to examine the practices of architects working beyond buildings. Arguing that the profession has always been under threat, I outline why socially progressive architects are rejecting claims as expert technical problem-solvers or artistic form-givers by instead initiating and contributing towards explicitly spatial projects prioritizing social and economic objectives. By calling for creative engagement with such projects, I set forth an agenda for a politically progressive geography of architecture. « Spatial agency » et pratique de l'architecture au-delà des bâtiments RÉSUMÉCet article propose une nouvelle direction pour la recherche géographique sur l'architecture en mettant l'accent sur des projets architecturaux qui vont bien au-delà de la conception et de la production d'objets matériels. Des travaux récents sur la pratique de l'architecture par des géographes sociaux et culturels ont examiné les processus multiples d'acteurs humains et non-humains réunis et associés pour produire des bâtiments. Répondant aux inquiétudes que les géographes ne réussissent pas à travailler en étroite collaboration avec les architectes, j'introduis les idées de « spatial agency » pour examiner les pratiques des architectes qui travaillent au-delà des bâtiments. Soutenant que la profession a toujours été en danger, j'expose les raisons pour lesquelles les architectes socialement progressistes rejettent des demandes en tant qu'experts techniques de résolutions de problèmes ou donneurs de forme artistiques en initiant plutôt des projets explicitement spatiaux et en contribuant à donner la priorité aux objectifs sociaux et économiques. En appelant à l'engagement créatif pour de tels projets, j'établis un programme pour une géographie politiquement progressive de l'architecture. La agencia espacial y la práctica de la arquitectura más allá de los edificios RESUMENEste documento proporciona una nueva dirección para los estudios geográficos en la arquitectura, centrándose sobre proyectos arquitectónicos que van mucho más allá del diseño y la producción de objetos materiales. El trabajo reciente sobre la práctica de las arquitecturas de los geógrafos sociales y culturales ha examinado los múltiples procesos de actores humanos y no humanos que se adhieren y se solidifican para producir edificios. En respuesta a la preocupación de que los geógrafos están fallando a trabajar en estrecha colaboración con arquitectos, se presentan ideas de agencia espacial para examinar las prácticas de los arquitectos que trabajan más allá de los edificios. Argumentand...

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“…This plethora of sights, sounds and experiences is part of the atmospherics. In recent years such an attention to atmospheres has gained traction, drawing on work across a range of fields, including geography (Adey et al 2013), architecture and art (Wigley 1998;Böhme 2000). This literature places significance on the ways in which infrastructures, people and events come together in the production of particular affective environments and states (Feigenbaum and Kanngieser 2015).…”

Section: The Milipol Expo and Atmospheric Marketingmentioning

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Vulnerable warriors: the atmospheric marketing of military and policing equipment before and after 9/11

Feigenbaum

Weissmann

2016

Critical Studies on Terrorism

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In this paper we analyse changes in the circulation of advertisements of policing products at security expos between 1995 and 2013. While the initial aim of the research was to evidence shifts in terrorist frames in the marketing of policing equipment before and after 9/11, our findings instead suggested that what we are seeing is the rise of marketing to police as 'vulnerable warriors', law enforcement officers in need of military weapons both for their offensive capabilities, as well as for the protection they can offer to a police force that is always under threat.

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‘Pour votre tranquillité’: Ambiance, atmosphere, and surveillance

Cited by 124 publications

References 33 publications

Beyond night-time economy: Affective atmospheres of the urban night

Beyond night-time economy: Affective atmospheres of the urban night

Spatial agency and practising architecture beyond buildings

Vulnerable warriors: the atmospheric marketing of military and policing equipment before and after 9/11

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