Of bakeries and checkpoints

Stately affects in Amman and Baghdad

Bibliographic Data

ID4476401
AuthorsJosé Ciro Martínez (0000-0002-7960-4055, University of Cambridge, corresponding author), Omar Sirri (0000-0003-4689-0363, University of Toronto)
Year2020
Volume38
Issue5
Pages849-866
Publication date2020-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEnvironment and Planning D Society and Space (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0263-7758 • E-ISSN: 1472-3433
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0263775820919773
OpenAlexW3017671022
LanguageEN
Citations received17
References cited71

This paper examines bakeries and checkpoints through their relationship to the state and connects considerations of affect with the burgeoning literature on infrastructure. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Amman and Baghdad, we centre routine encounters at these sites and argue that infrastructural engagements ignite energies, desires and sentiments that are deeply implicated in how the state plays out in everyday life. We zoom in on these ordinary affects and unpack the situated histories of rule in which they emerge. In Amman and Baghdad, stately affects work in and through infrastructure, doing so with regularity and intensity, and at specific times and places. The state effect transpires and thrives through these quotidian affective resonances, not just in the realm of ideas and imaginaries

Aesthetics · Affect (linguistics · Ethnography · Political science · Realm · Situated · Sociology · State (computer science · Anthropology · Communication · Computer Science · Law · Philosophy · Political Theology and Sovereignty · Urban Planning and Governance · Water Governance and Infrastructure · Artificial Intelligence

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