Critical geographies of love as spatial, relational and political

Bibliographic Data

ID8090190
AuthorsCarey-Ann Morrison (University of Waikato), Carey‐ann Morrison (0000-0001-5955-7442, corresponding author), Lesley Johnston (0000-0001-7686-9181, University of Waikato), Robyn Longhurst (0000-0001-9192-0643, University of Waikato)
Year2012
Volume37
Issue4
Pages505-521
Publication date2012-11-15
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueProgress in Human Geography (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0309-1325 • E-ISSN: 1477-0288
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0309132512462513
OpenAlexW2076080017
LanguageEN
Citations received71
References cited63

Geographers to date have resisted writing about feelings, affects, places and spaces of love. It is timely to put love on the geographical agenda. We begin by addressing the question ‘what does love do?’, and we review the work of geographers who have been thinking about love via a number of different theoretical lenses. We then argue for a consideration of love as spatial, relational and political. We prompt geographers to think critically about love in its entire multisensory, lived, embodied, felt and contradictory guises. Finally, the work of Ahmed, Sedgwick and Berlant is useful for furthering geographers’ insights on love

Aesthetics · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Feeling · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Work (physics · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Philosophy · Sex work and related issues