Ecologies of Affect: Placing Nostalgia, Desire, and Hope - Paperback

by Tonya K. Davidson (Editor), Ondine Park (Editor), Rob Shields (Editor)

A collection of essays which make an active, consistent engagement with the virtualities that produce and refract our idealized attachments to place. It offers a synthetic introduction to the felt dynamics of cities and the character of places.

Author Biography

Tonya Davidson teaches sociology at Carleton University in Ottawa. She is the co-editor of Seasonal Sociology (with Ondine Park) and Ecologies of Affect (with Ondine Park and Rob Shields).
Ondine Park is a Ph.D. candidate in sociology at the University of Alberta and is interested in urban and cultural studies and social theory. Her most recent research focuses on the idea and promise of the suburb. She can be found at www.ualberta.ca/ opark.
Rob Shields is the H.M. Tory Chair in the Departments of Sociology and Art and Design at the University of Alberta. He is co-editor of the journal Space and Culture, and his most recent works include What Is a City? Rethinking the Urban after Katrina (ed., 2008) and Building Tomorrow: Innovation in Construction (ed., 2005).