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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Danny McNally , Laura Price (Royal Holloway University of London, UK) , Philip Crang (Royal Holloway University of London, UK)Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Weight: 0.453kg ISBN: 9781472454027ISBN 10: 1472454022 Pages: 282 Publication Date: 30 December 2020 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents1 Towards geographies of comfort 1 LAURA PRICE, DANNY McNALLY, AND PHILIP CRANG SECTION ONE Bodies and environments 23 2 Transitioning comforts: bodily evaluations of urban mobilities 25 DAVID BISSELL 3 Beyond the ‘comfort zone’: experiencing and responding to everyday weather 43 ELIZA DE VET 4 (Re)creating a sense of comfort: post-disaster homemaking 65 STEPHANIE HAREL 5 ‘Goodnight, sleep tight’: bedtime stories, picture-book bedrooms and tales of comfort 82 JAMIE ADCOCK Contents vi Contents SECTION TWO Difference and encounter 99 6 The geopolitics of (dis)comfort and indifference in Israel-Palestine 101 DANIEL WEBB 7 Homely comforts abroad: navigating the comfort zone(s) within international student mobility 121 LAURA PRAZERES 8 ‘Economia da Saudade’: comfort food for London’s Brazilian diaspora 137 MARIA DAS GRACAS BRIGHTWELL 9 Assembling a great way to fly: performances of comfort in the air 151 WEIQIANG LIN SECTION THREE Materiality and texture 171 10 Comfort, identity and fashion in the post-socialist city 173 MARK JAYNE 11 Cosy, comforting, disruptive? knitting and knitters in/out of place 194 LAURA PRICE 12 A correspondence with water: on the (dis)comforts of the swimming pool 206 MIRANDA WARD SECTION FOUR Health and wellbeing 217 13 Picturing dis/comforting geographies: place, punctum and photography 219 ANDREW GORMAN-MURRAY 14 Between bodies and buildings: the place of comfort within therapeutic spaces 238 DARYL MARTIN 15 Feeling good, looking good: comfort and the technologies of beauty in the spa 258 JO LITTLE AND KATHERINE MORTONReviewsAuthor InformationDanny McNally is Lecturer in Geography at Teesside University. His research draws from cultural and social geography, and art theory and practice to explore pressing social and environmental issues. He has a PhD in Cultural Geography from Royal Holloway, University of London. Laura Price is Research and Project Manager at PositiveNegatives based in SOAS, University of London. She is also co-editor of Geographies of Making, Craft and Creativity published by Routledge in 2018. Her research explores feminist geography, education, craft and creativity. Philip Crang is Professor of Cultural Geography at Royal Holloway University of London. He was editor of the journal Cultural Geographies from 1999 to 2008. His research is concerned with the material textures of places and the mobilities of people, things and ideas that constitute them. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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