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Bringing together conceptual and empirical research from leading thinkers, this book critically examines 'comfort' in everyday life in an era of continually occurring social, political and environmental changes.
List of contents
1 Towards geographies of comfort 1
LAURA PRICE, DANNY McNALLY, AND PHILIP CRANG
SECTION ONE
Bodies and environments 23
2 Transitioning comforts: bodily evaluations of urban mobilities 25
DAVID BISSELL
3 Beyond the ‘comfort zone’: experiencing and responding to everyday weather 43
ELIZA DE VET
4 (Re)creating a sense of comfort: post-disaster homemaking 65
STEPHANIE HAREL
5 ‘Goodnight, sleep tight’: bedtime stories, picture-book bedrooms and tales of comfort 82
JAMIE ADCOCK
Contents
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SECTION TWO
Difference and encounter 99
6 The geopolitics of (dis)comfort and indifference in Israel-Palestine 101
DANIEL WEBB
7 Homely comforts abroad: navigating the comfort zone(s) within international student mobility 121
LAURA PRAZERES
8 ‘Economia da Saudade’: comfort food for London’s Brazilian diaspora 137
MARIA DAS GRACAS BRIGHTWELL
9 Assembling a great way to fly: performances of comfort in the air 151
WEIQIANG LIN
SECTION THREE
Materiality and texture 171
10 Comfort, identity and fashion in the post-socialist city 173
MARK JAYNE
11 Cosy, comforting, disruptive? knitting and knitters in/out of place 194
LAURA PRICE
12 A correspondence with water: on the (dis)comforts of the swimming pool 206
MIRANDA WARD
SECTION FOUR
Health and wellbeing 217
13 Picturing dis/comforting geographies: place, punctum and photography 219
ANDREW GORMAN-MURRAY
14 Between bodies and buildings: the place of comfort within therapeutic spaces 238
DARYL MARTIN
15 Feeling good, looking good: comfort and the technologies of beauty in the spa 258
JO LITTLE AND KATHERINE MORTON
About the author
Danny McNally is Lecturer in Geography at Teesside University. His research draws from cultural and social geography, and art theory and practice to explore pressing social and environmental issues. He has a PhD in Cultural Geography from Royal Holloway, University of London.
Laura Price is Research and Project Manager at PositiveNegatives based in SOAS, University of London. She is also co-editor of Geographies of Making, Craft and Creativity published by Routledge in 2018. Her research explores feminist geography, education, craft and creativity.
Philip Crang is Professor of Cultural Geography at Royal Holloway University of London. He was editor of the journal Cultural Geographies from 1999 to 2008. His research is concerned with the material textures of places and the mobilities of people, things and ideas that constitute them.
Summary
Bringing together conceptual and empirical research from leading thinkers, this book critically examines ‘comfort’ in everyday life in an era of continually occurring social, political and environmental changes.
