Embodied Architectural Geographies of Consumption and theMall Paseo ChiloéControversy in Southern Chile

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ID3775643
AuthorsJacob C Miller (0000-0003-0862-518X, Northumbria University, corresponding author)
Year2019
Volume109
Issue4
Pages1300-1316
Publication date2019-07-04
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAnnals of the American Association of Geographers (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2469-4452 • E-ISSN: 2469-4460
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/24694452.2018.1535311
OpenAlexW2917280275
LanguageEN
Citations received8
References cited44

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 controversial development of a particular shopping mall in southern Chile, we get a better sense of how retail capital expands into new territories and how it responds to and enrolls embodied geographies in the process. Although this process does include the expansion of a particular kind of spatial technology that works through affective architectural interventions, this article also illustrates how such an expansion relies on prevailing imaginative and emotional geographies in important ways. As such, this embodied architectural geography does not sideline human subjectivity but explores its complex relationship with the materiality of landscape and affective architectural space. Key Words: affect, emotion, imaginative geography, landscape, shopping mall

Aesthetics · Art · Built environment · Embodied cognition · Emotive · Epistemology · Everyday life · Gentrification · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Subjectivity · Visual arts · Anthropology · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Architecture

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