Jacob C Miller
Biographic Data
| ID | 3584508 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jacob C Miller |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jacob C |
| FAMILY NAME | Miller |
| SIGNATURE | MILLER J C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northumbria University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0862-518X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 114 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
The Multiple Speeds of Infrastructural Violence, or Putting Flesh on the Boneyard
In recent years, museums have been acknowledged as powerful geopolitical sites. In this article, we explore the military museums of southern Arizona, primarily the Pima Air and Space Museum in Tucson, as a unique kind of infrastructure where the museum and the military meet. Drawing on participant observation, we explore how the museum experience provides crucial affective and emotional dimensions to the ideological production the military is inv…
The assemblages of (counter) spectacle - mega-retail in post-dictatorship Chile and beyond
Spectacle, once a key term for critical theories, has had limited theoretical development in recent decades. To make sure the concept remains relevant today, this paper turns to actor-network theory (ANT) and assemblage theories to reconceptualize what the spectacle is and how it operates today. Working with a case study of a controversial urban spectacle in southern Chile - a new shopping mall, the "Mall Paseo Chiloé" - this paper explores a set…
Museum as geopolitical entity: Toward soft combat
Many scholars have examined the museum as a site of politics. This paper reviews recent research on museums and puts forward "soft combat" as a device for understanding how museums operate as geopolitical entities today. Soft combat includes (a) enrolling the visitor in affective atmospheres, (b) engaging with violence and trauma, and (c) embodied persuasion. We examine a military museum in the U.S.A to substantiate soft combat as a kind of biopo…
The ruin(s) of Chiloé: An ethnography of buildings de/reterritorializing
Studying buildings can be a rich entry point into emerging cultural geographies. The archipelago of Chiloé in southern Chile is experiencing rapid change since the country's extreme turn toward neoliberal governance in the 1970s. Once a rural, communal, and sea-faring region, it has been transformed by industrial aquaculture in recent decades which has driven a new urban landscapes and consumer-oriented lifestyles. This paper offers findings from…
Post-phenomenology, consumption and warfare on the urban leisure path, USA
The geopolitics of presence and absence at the ruins of Fort Henry
In recent years, scholars have examined the non- or more-than-human world from a variety of unique positions. This article draws on contemporary archaeology and assemblage theories in geography to put forward an understanding of everyday geopolitics that includes the presence of objects in the formation of state subjectivity. Our approach, however, reveals not only this disciplining force of objects but also the ontological absences that are also…
Spectacle, tourism and the performance of everyday geopolitics
In recent years scholars have explored the geopolitics of spectacle in exciting ways. While tourism presents a rich opportunity to think about the intersection of geopolitics and spectacle, only a small but growing number of researchers have explored this area where state-society relations unfold in complex ways. This article draws on this work and other traditions in feminist political geography and non-representational theories to explore the e…
Embodied Architectural Geographies of Consumption and theMall Paseo ChiloéControversy in Southern Chile
In recent years, the geographies of architecture have expanded to include the affective and emotive dimensions of everyday life and the politics of urban space. This article explores these embodied geographies of architecture in an emerging urban landscape that has the built environment at its core: the postdictatorship retail landscape of neoliberal Chile. By drawing on findings from ethnographic research around the role of affect and emotion in…
The "right to consume"? Re-thinking the dynamics of exclusion/inclusion in consumer society
Consumption is a political relationship. This article considers competing political discourses around consumption as different versions of a hypothetical right to consume. In the first section, we consider how the domain of consumption can express the critical potential of the “right to the city,” a concept inspired by Henri Lefebvre that has had widespread influence in urban studies and related fields. In the second section we consider how the r…
No fish, no mall. Industrial fish produce new subjectivities in Southern Chile
The ‘magic of the mall’ revisited: Malls and the embodied politics of life
This article reviews recent literature on shopping malls that reaffirms their importance for human geography. Taking Goss’s seminal work on the ‘magic of the mall’ as a starting point, we trace how recent works attuned to emotion and affect have updated and inspired a re-conceptualization of this potential ‘magic’. Synthesizing the linkages between consumer architecture with spatial politics and emotional and affective sensibilities in those spac…
Negative simulation, spectacle and the embodied geopolitics of tourism
This paper builds on recent work on the embodied geopolitics of tourism to investigate the Titan Missile Museum ( TMM ), a Cold War‐era underground nuclear missile silo and command bunker in the southwest USA . In examining how visitors are not only persuaded to adopt certain attitudes towards the weaponry, but are enrolled in an embodied experience that is active in the formation of subjectivity that emerges from such an encounter, the paper dra…
The Sociology of Consumption: A Global Approach
Joel Stillerman. Cambridge, UK: Polity, 2015. vi and 225 pp., bibliography, index. $24.95 paper (ISBN-13: 978-0-7456-6127-8); $69.95 cloth (ISBN 9780745661278); $19.99–$69.95 electronic (ISBN 97807
The object‐orientated political subjectivities of McUniversity
Higher education has changed drastically in recent decades, leading to the emergence of what some have called ‘ M c U niversity’. This article adds a new perspective by exploring how the everyday lived experience of this kind of space constitutes a dense political field. We draw on our own experience of an emblematic architectural site on our own university campus – the Student Union building – to advance an analysis of the everyday built environ…
The critical intimacies of walking in the Abasto Shopping mall, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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 soc…
Approximating new spaces of consumption at the Abasto Shopping Mall, Buenos Aires, Argentina
This paper outlines the resources available to researchers interested in approximating the domains of affect, emotion, and assemblage in today's cultural landscapes of consumption. The extended introduction includes a brief review of recent methodological innovations in accessing embodied experience and materiality more generally. Next, I introduce the Abasto Shopping Mall in central Buenos Aires and outline how I approached four months of fieldw…
Affect, Consumption, and Identity at a Buenos Aires Shopping Mall
This paper explores the built environment of a shopping mall in light of recent theoretical interventions that stress the affective dimensions of everyday political life. By drawing on sixteen weeks of ethnographic fieldwork at a shopping mall in central Buenos Aires, Argentina, I explore how retail affects are unevenly distributed across a diverse public, and how different bodies, in turn, affect the mall in particular ways. In short, this paper…
The Spatial Dialectics of Modernity and Retail Affect at Abasto Shopping, Buenos Aires, Argentina
The paper is about the political life of a building: the Abasto. Located in what was called the “most porteño” neighborhood in the first part of the 20th century (“porteño” is someone from central Buenos Aires) when it functioned as the city's main food market, the Abasto became a massive shopping mall in 1998 amid rapid neoliberal restructuring. This paper charts the political life of this building in two steps. First, by drawing on theories of …
Malls without stores (MwS): The affectual spaces of a Buenos Aires shopping mall
As shopping malls have become increasingly common in urban and suburban landscapes, retail and consumer sciences have made these spaces more affectively intense by targeting the body of the consumer directly. Through a case study of a shopping mall in central Buenos Aires, Argentina, I suggest that non‐representational theory offers advantages in studying spaces like malls for two reasons. First, shopping malls offer an opportunity to study the e…
Malls without stores (MwS): The affectual spaces of a Buenos Aires shopping mall
As shopping malls have become increasingly common in urban and suburban landscapes, retail and consumer sciences have made these spaces more affectively intense by targeting the body of the consumer directly. Through a case study of a shopping mall in central Buenos Aires, Argentina, I suggest that non‐representational theory offers advantages in studying spaces like malls for two reasons. First, shopping malls offer an opportunity to study the e…
The ‘magic of the mall’ revisited: Malls and the embodied politics of life
This article reviews recent literature on shopping malls that reaffirms their importance for human geography. Taking Goss’s seminal work on the ‘magic of the mall’ as a starting point, we trace how recent works attuned to emotion and affect have updated and inspired a re-conceptualization of this potential ‘magic’. Synthesizing the linkages between consumer architecture with spatial politics and emotional and affective sensibilities in those spac…
Negative simulation, spectacle and the embodied geopolitics of tourism
This paper builds on recent work on the embodied geopolitics of tourism to investigate the Titan Missile Museum ( TMM ), a Cold War‐era underground nuclear missile silo and command bunker in the southwest USA . In examining how visitors are not only persuaded to adopt certain attitudes towards the weaponry, but are enrolled in an embodied experience that is active in the formation of subjectivity that emerges from such an encounter, the paper dra…
Spectacle, tourism and the performance of everyday geopolitics
In recent years scholars have explored the geopolitics of spectacle in exciting ways. While tourism presents a rich opportunity to think about the intersection of geopolitics and spectacle, only a small but growing number of researchers have explored this area where state-society relations unfold in complex ways. This article draws on this work and other traditions in feminist political geography and non-representational theories to explore the e…
The Spatial Dialectics of Modernity and Retail Affect at Abasto Shopping, Buenos Aires, Argentina
The paper is about the political life of a building: the Abasto. Located in what was called the “most porteño” neighborhood in the first part of the 20th century (“porteño” is someone from central Buenos Aires) when it functioned as the city's main food market, the Abasto became a massive shopping mall in 1998 amid rapid neoliberal restructuring. This paper charts the political life of this building in two steps. First, by drawing on theories of …
The critical intimacies of walking in the Abasto Shopping mall, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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 soc…
No fish, no mall. Industrial fish produce new subjectivities in Southern Chile
Affect, Consumption, and Identity at a Buenos Aires Shopping Mall
This paper explores the built environment of a shopping mall in light of recent theoretical interventions that stress the affective dimensions of everyday political life. By drawing on sixteen weeks of ethnographic fieldwork at a shopping mall in central Buenos Aires, Argentina, I explore how retail affects are unevenly distributed across a diverse public, and how different bodies, in turn, affect the mall in particular ways. In short, this paper…
Museum as geopolitical entity: Toward soft combat
Many scholars have examined the museum as a site of politics. This paper reviews recent research on museums and puts forward "soft combat" as a device for understanding how museums operate as geopolitical entities today. Soft combat includes (a) enrolling the visitor in affective atmospheres, (b) engaging with violence and trauma, and (c) embodied persuasion. We examine a military museum in the U.S.A to substantiate soft combat as a kind of biopo…
Embodied Architectural Geographies of Consumption and theMall Paseo ChiloéControversy in Southern Chile
In recent years, the geographies of architecture have expanded to include the affective and emotive dimensions of everyday life and the politics of urban space. This article explores these embodied geographies of architecture in an emerging urban landscape that has the built environment at its core: the postdictatorship retail landscape of neoliberal Chile. By drawing on findings from ethnographic research around the role of affect and emotion in…
The "right to consume"? Re-thinking the dynamics of exclusion/inclusion in consumer society
Consumption is a political relationship. This article considers competing political discourses around consumption as different versions of a hypothetical right to consume. In the first section, we consider how the domain of consumption can express the critical potential of the “right to the city,” a concept inspired by Henri Lefebvre that has had widespread influence in urban studies and related fields. In the second section we consider how the r…
Approximating new spaces of consumption at the Abasto Shopping Mall, Buenos Aires, Argentina
This paper outlines the resources available to researchers interested in approximating the domains of affect, emotion, and assemblage in today's cultural landscapes of consumption. The extended introduction includes a brief review of recent methodological innovations in accessing embodied experience and materiality more generally. Next, I introduce the Abasto Shopping Mall in central Buenos Aires and outline how I approached four months of fieldw…
The ruin(s) of Chiloé: An ethnography of buildings de/reterritorializing
Studying buildings can be a rich entry point into emerging cultural geographies. The archipelago of Chiloé in southern Chile is experiencing rapid change since the country's extreme turn toward neoliberal governance in the 1970s. Once a rural, communal, and sea-faring region, it has been transformed by industrial aquaculture in recent decades which has driven a new urban landscapes and consumer-oriented lifestyles. This paper offers findings from…
The geopolitics of presence and absence at the ruins of Fort Henry
In recent years, scholars have examined the non- or more-than-human world from a variety of unique positions. This article draws on contemporary archaeology and assemblage theories in geography to put forward an understanding of everyday geopolitics that includes the presence of objects in the formation of state subjectivity. Our approach, however, reveals not only this disciplining force of objects but also the ontological absences that are also…
Post-phenomenology, consumption and warfare on the urban leisure path, USA
The Multiple Speeds of Infrastructural Violence, or Putting Flesh on the Boneyard
In recent years, museums have been acknowledged as powerful geopolitical sites. In this article, we explore the military museums of southern Arizona, primarily the Pima Air and Space Museum in Tucson, as a unique kind of infrastructure where the museum and the military meet. Drawing on participant observation, we explore how the museum experience provides crucial affective and emotional dimensions to the ideological production the military is inv…
The object‐orientated political subjectivities of McUniversity
Higher education has changed drastically in recent decades, leading to the emergence of what some have called ‘ M c U niversity’. This article adds a new perspective by exploring how the everyday lived experience of this kind of space constitutes a dense political field. We draw on our own experience of an emblematic architectural site on our own university campus – the Student Union building – to advance an analysis of the everyday built environ…
Malls without stores (MwS): The affectual spaces of a Buenos Aires shopping mall
As shopping malls have become increasingly common in urban and suburban landscapes, retail and consumer sciences have made these spaces more affectively intense by targeting the body of the consumer directly. Through a case study of a shopping mall in central Buenos Aires, Argentina, I suggest that non‐representational theory offers advantages in studying spaces like malls for two reasons. First, shopping malls offer an opportunity to study the e…
The Spatial Dialectics of Modernity and Retail Affect at Abasto Shopping, Buenos Aires, Argentina
The paper is about the political life of a building: the Abasto. Located in what was called the “most porteño” neighborhood in the first part of the 20th century (“porteño” is someone from central Buenos Aires) when it functioned as the city's main food market, the Abasto became a massive shopping mall in 1998 amid rapid neoliberal restructuring. This paper charts the political life of this building in two steps. First, by drawing on theories of …
Approximating new spaces of consumption at the Abasto Shopping Mall, Buenos Aires, Argentina
This paper outlines the resources available to researchers interested in approximating the domains of affect, emotion, and assemblage in today's cultural landscapes of consumption. The extended introduction includes a brief review of recent methodological innovations in accessing embodied experience and materiality more generally. Next, I introduce the Abasto Shopping Mall in central Buenos Aires and outline how I approached four months of fieldw…
Affect, Consumption, and Identity at a Buenos Aires Shopping Mall
This paper explores the built environment of a shopping mall in light of recent theoretical interventions that stress the affective dimensions of everyday political life. By drawing on sixteen weeks of ethnographic fieldwork at a shopping mall in central Buenos Aires, Argentina, I explore how retail affects are unevenly distributed across a diverse public, and how different bodies, in turn, affect the mall in particular ways. In short, this paper…
The critical intimacies of walking in the Abasto Shopping mall, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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 soc…
The object‐orientated political subjectivities of McUniversity
Higher education has changed drastically in recent decades, leading to the emergence of what some have called ‘ M c U niversity’. This article adds a new perspective by exploring how the everyday lived experience of this kind of space constitutes a dense political field. We draw on our own experience of an emblematic architectural site on our own university campus – the Student Union building – to advance an analysis of the everyday built environ…
The Sociology of Consumption: A Global Approach
Joel Stillerman. Cambridge, UK: Polity, 2015. vi and 225 pp., bibliography, index. $24.95 paper (ISBN-13: 978-0-7456-6127-8); $69.95 cloth (ISBN 9780745661278); $19.99–$69.95 electronic (ISBN 97807
No fish, no mall. Industrial fish produce new subjectivities in Southern Chile
The ‘magic of the mall’ revisited: Malls and the embodied politics of life
This article reviews recent literature on shopping malls that reaffirms their importance for human geography. Taking Goss’s seminal work on the ‘magic of the mall’ as a starting point, we trace how recent works attuned to emotion and affect have updated and inspired a re-conceptualization of this potential ‘magic’. Synthesizing the linkages between consumer architecture with spatial politics and emotional and affective sensibilities in those spac…
Negative simulation, spectacle and the embodied geopolitics of tourism
This paper builds on recent work on the embodied geopolitics of tourism to investigate the Titan Missile Museum ( TMM ), a Cold War‐era underground nuclear missile silo and command bunker in the southwest USA . In examining how visitors are not only persuaded to adopt certain attitudes towards the weaponry, but are enrolled in an embodied experience that is active in the formation of subjectivity that emerges from such an encounter, the paper dra…
Embodied Architectural Geographies of Consumption and theMall Paseo ChiloéControversy in Southern Chile
In recent years, the geographies of architecture have expanded to include the affective and emotive dimensions of everyday life and the politics of urban space. This article explores these embodied geographies of architecture in an emerging urban landscape that has the built environment at its core: the postdictatorship retail landscape of neoliberal Chile. By drawing on findings from ethnographic research around the role of affect and emotion in…
The "right to consume"? Re-thinking the dynamics of exclusion/inclusion in consumer society
Consumption is a political relationship. This article considers competing political discourses around consumption as different versions of a hypothetical right to consume. In the first section, we consider how the domain of consumption can express the critical potential of the “right to the city,” a concept inspired by Henri Lefebvre that has had widespread influence in urban studies and related fields. In the second section we consider how the r…
Spectacle, tourism and the performance of everyday geopolitics
In recent years scholars have explored the geopolitics of spectacle in exciting ways. While tourism presents a rich opportunity to think about the intersection of geopolitics and spectacle, only a small but growing number of researchers have explored this area where state-society relations unfold in complex ways. This article draws on this work and other traditions in feminist political geography and non-representational theories to explore the e…
Post-phenomenology, consumption and warfare on the urban leisure path, USA
The geopolitics of presence and absence at the ruins of Fort Henry
In recent years, scholars have examined the non- or more-than-human world from a variety of unique positions. This article draws on contemporary archaeology and assemblage theories in geography to put forward an understanding of everyday geopolitics that includes the presence of objects in the formation of state subjectivity. Our approach, however, reveals not only this disciplining force of objects but also the ontological absences that are also…
Museum as geopolitical entity: Toward soft combat
Many scholars have examined the museum as a site of politics. This paper reviews recent research on museums and puts forward "soft combat" as a device for understanding how museums operate as geopolitical entities today. Soft combat includes (a) enrolling the visitor in affective atmospheres, (b) engaging with violence and trauma, and (c) embodied persuasion. We examine a military museum in the U.S.A to substantiate soft combat as a kind of biopo…
The ruin(s) of Chiloé: An ethnography of buildings de/reterritorializing
Studying buildings can be a rich entry point into emerging cultural geographies. The archipelago of Chiloé in southern Chile is experiencing rapid change since the country's extreme turn toward neoliberal governance in the 1970s. Once a rural, communal, and sea-faring region, it has been transformed by industrial aquaculture in recent decades which has driven a new urban landscapes and consumer-oriented lifestyles. This paper offers findings from…
The assemblages of (counter) spectacle - mega-retail in post-dictatorship Chile and beyond
Spectacle, once a key term for critical theories, has had limited theoretical development in recent decades. To make sure the concept remains relevant today, this paper turns to actor-network theory (ANT) and assemblage theories to reconceptualize what the spectacle is and how it operates today. Working with a case study of a controversial urban spectacle in southern Chile - a new shopping mall, the "Mall Paseo Chiloé" - this paper explores a set…
The Multiple Speeds of Infrastructural Violence, or Putting Flesh on the Boneyard
In recent years, museums have been acknowledged as powerful geopolitical sites. In this article, we explore the military museums of southern Arizona, primarily the Pima Air and Space Museum in Tucson, as a unique kind of infrastructure where the museum and the military meet. Drawing on participant observation, we explore how the museum experience provides crucial affective and emotional dimensions to the ideological production the military is inv…
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