To be in one's comfort zone is perceived to be conservative, and socially and culturally unadventurous. At the same time the embodied, material experience of 'comfort' is anticipated for satisfying experiences of everyday life. To comfort is to support and strengthen. Bringing together conceptual and empirical research that deploys the lens of comfort to make sense of the textures of everyday life in a variety of geographical contexts, this is the first volume to engage critically with 'comfort' and 'discomfort' as substantive concerns for Human Geography. Comfort and discomfort have come to...
To be in one's comfort zone is perceived to be conservative, and socially and culturally unadventurous. At the same time the embodied, material experi...
This book brings together cutting edge research from leading international scholars to explore the key dimensions of geographies of making and craft, and the different understandings of 'making' therein. It explores the geographies of making practices from the body to the workshop and studio, and the wider socio-cultural, economic, institutional and historical contexts. The place of creative practices in 'making' geographies and worlds is considered, as well as the multiple lives of things in creatively re-working objects. Contributions examine how concerns around the body, matter and...
This book brings together cutting edge research from leading international scholars to explore the key dimensions of geographies of making and craf...
Bringing together conceptual and empirical research from leading thinkers, this book critically examines ‘comfort’ in everyday life in an era of continually occurring social, political and environmental changes.
Bringing together conceptual and empirical research from leading thinkers, this book critically examines ‘comfort’ in everyday life in an era of c...
