The critical intimacies of walking in the Abasto Shopping mall,Buenos Aires,Argentina |
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Authors: | Jacob C. Miller |
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Affiliation: | 1. School of Geography and Development, University of Arizona, Harvill Building, Room 409, P.O. Box 210076, Box #2, Tucson, AZ 85721-0076, USAjcmiller@email.arizona.edu |
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Abstract: | In recent years, scholars have focused on how affective life becomes implicated in biopolitical interventions in a variety of spaces, including spaces of consumption. Less has been said about how the emotional domain also becomes a space of biopolitics. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork at a mall in Buenos Aires, this paper attends to this link and outlines a methodology that generates insight into the layers of intimacy that help shape these social and political spaces. What I am calling images of critical intimacy point to how these biopolitical spaces may be operating today and also what their limits appear to be. |
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Keywords: | biopolitics walk-along emotion affect methodology Argentina |
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