Transitional Ethics and Aesthetics: Reimagining the Postdisaster City in Christchurch, New Zealand

Bios and arrows: On time in health geographies

“…However, studies have also shown how vital affective techniques might be used by interest groups to resist and push back against fast‐acting capitalist interests and affects, and to empower themselves. For example, this arises in the ways post‐disaster transitional activism in New Zealand creates community well‐being whilst ‘holding a mirror up’ to quick neoliberal urban rebuilding strategies (Cloke & Conradson, 2018; Cloke & Dickinson, 2019), or in the ways anti‐consumerist and anti‐development health messages are promoted through the energies and performances in sports and other physical cultures (Thorpe & Rinehart, 2010; Wheaton, 2007). In these later situations, collective movements and collective messages combine and mutually support each other in the active pursuit of health, well‐being and freedom from capital. The terms affective capitalism and emotional capitalism arise because beyond the omnipresent atmosphere of possibility capitalism creates (noted above), capitalism actively reaches out to consumers like never before.…”

Event spaces and the shaping of economic subjectivity: Inside the Social Enterprise World Forum

“…Rebuilding the city reactivated interest in the innovation economy. Christchurch became a magnet for sustainable, entrepreneurial and smart city policy discourses, while a wave of small-scale economic initiatives and experimentation aligned with bottom-up urban redevelopment became inflected with the new global interest in social enterprise (Berno, 2017;Cloke and Conradson, 2018;Cloke and Dickinson, 2019;). A 'city-in-rebuilding', with a prominent Innovation Precinct that supports co-working and incubation offices and multiple initiatives to cultivate an entrepreneurial ethos and associated capabilities, was a perfect setting for SEWF.…”