The critical intimacies of walking in the Abasto Shopping mall, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Bibliographic Data

ID3138912
AuthorsJacob C Miller (0000-0003-0862-518X, University of Arizona, corresponding author)
Year2015
Volume16
Issue8
Pages869-887
Publication date2015-11-17
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueSocial & Cultural Geography (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1464-9365 • E-ISSN: 1470-1197
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14649365.2015.1026928
OpenAlexW2013637687
LanguageEN
Citations received9
References cited75

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

Aesthetics · Art · Biopower · Consumption (sociology · Critical theory · Ethnography · Political science · Politics · Shopping mall · Social science · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · Variety (cybernetics · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism

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