How do places manipulate our emotions? How are spaces affectious in their articulation and design? This book provides theoretical frameworks for exploring affective dimensions of architectural sites based on the notion that heritage, as an embodied experience, is embedded in places and spaces.

Drawing together an interdisciplinary collection of essays spanning geographically diverse architectural sites - including Ford's Theater, the site of President Lincoln's assassination; the Estadio Nacional of Santiago, Chile, where 12,000 detainees were held following the ouster of President Salvador Allende; and Unit 731, the site of a biological and chemical warfare research unit of the Imperial Japanese army in Harbin, China, amongst others - this edited collection assembles critical dialogue amongst scholars and practitioners engaging in affective and other more-than-representational approaches to cultural memory, heritage, and identity-making. Broken into three main sections: Affective Politics; Embedded Geographies; and Affective Methodologies, this book draws together multidisciplinary perspectives from the arts, social sciences and humanities to understand the role of architecture in generating embodied experiences at places of memory.

This book offers interdisciplinary perspectives on fundamental questions of memory, identity and space. It will be of interest to students and scholars in the fields of geography, architecture, cultural studies, and museum and heritage studies.

About the Author

Jacque Micieli-Voutsinas PhD is Assistant Professor of Museum Studies and Public History at the University of Central Oklahoma and Director of the Master of Arts Graduate Program in Museum Studies. Her research explores the cultural politics of place-making at sites of difficult heritage. She is also author of the forthcoming Routledge title Affective Heritage: Mining Memory, Mediating Trauma at the 9/11 Memorial & Museum.

Angela M. Person is Assistant Professor of Architecture at the University of Oklahoma. Her research looks at relationships between built environments and cultural memory. She is co-author of The Care and Keeping of Cultural Facilities and co-editor of Renegades: Bruce Goff and the American School of Architecture.

Book Information
ISBN 9780367547134
Author Jacque Micieli-Voutsinas
Format Paperback
Page Count 306
Imprint Routledge
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Weight(grams) 458g