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Moving Spaces and Places

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Emerald Interdisciplinary Connexions

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Rob Fisher, Director of Progressive Connexions

Susanne Schotanus

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Moving Spaces and Places: Interdisciplinary Essays on Transformative Movements Through Space, Place, and Time

Edited By

Beitske Boonstra

Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Teresa Cutler-Broyles

University of New Mexico, USA

And

Stefano Rozzoni

University of Bergamo, Italy

United Kingdom – North America – Japan – India – Malaysia – China

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List of Figures

About the Contributors

Clint Abrahams is an Architect and Lecturer in the School of Architecture, Planning & Geomatics at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. His research in emergent architectural tectonic culture, social engagement and design-build critically engages the postcolonial portraits of post-Apartheid South Africa. His doctoral studies explore the tectonics of empathy and document self-made constructions in the community of Macassar to map the material contributions of Macassar's makers to the South African transformation project.

Elizabeth Batchelor studied undergraduate English Literature at UCL, and is now a Masters student at the Freie Universität Berlin, writing primarily on poetic space in English Renaissance poetry. Her research interests include metaphors, the early modern stage and dispersed emotional affects. She is also an avid writer of fantasy novels.

Dr Laura Bissell is Interim Head of Contemporary Performance Practice and Lecturer in Research at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. She has taught on the MRes in Creative Practices programme at Glasgow School of Art and the Transart Institute MFA in Berlin. Laura's research interests include: technology and performance; feminist performance; ecology and performance; and performance and journeys. Laura has presented her research nationally and internationally and has been published in the International Journal of Performance Art and Digital Media, The Body, Space and Technology, Studies in Theatre and Performance, The Scottish Journal of Performance and Contemporary Theatre Review. Laura is Coeditor of Making Routes: Journeys in Performance 2010–2020 (Triarchy, 2021) and Performance in a Pandemic (Routledge, 2021).

Dr Martin Blum is Associate Professor and teaches in the Department of Languages and World Literatures at the University of British Columbia Okanagan, Canada. His research focuses on the challenges of pre- and post-unification East Germany, and he has published on the oppositional movements, ecological issues, identity and the material culture of the GDR.

Dr Ir Beitske Boonstra is Assistant Professor in Urban Governance, at the Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences (ESSB), Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Her research focusses on the interaction between (local) governments and community initiatives in urban development, as well as on skills and capacities of city-makers and boundary spanners. Her theoretical background is derived from complexity theory, self-organisation, resilience and post-structuralist ontology. She is academic lead on city challenges in the Resilient Delta Initiative – a collaboration between Erasmus University Rotterdam, Erasmus Medical Centre and Delft University of Technology, and academic coordinator of the Knowledge Centre Liveable Neighbourhoods Rotterdam – a collaboration between Erasmus University Rotterdam and Municipality of Rotterdam. Beitske holds a PhD in Regional and Urban Planning from Utrecht University (2015) and a Master's degree in Urbanism from Delft University of Technology (2005).

Carla Larouco Gomes is a Researcher at the University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies (ULICES), where she has been involved in several research projects, and an Adjunct Lecturer of English Language and Culture at Estoril Higher Institute for Tourism and Hotel Studies. She holds a PhD in Culture and Literature Studies, with a specialisation in the New Liberalism and in L. T. Hobhouse's political thought. She is a member of the Political Studies Association British Idealism Specialist Group, devoted to the study of British Idealism and New Liberalism. Her main areas of interest include Culture Studies, English Culture, Reformation Studies, History of Ideas, History of Political Thought, and Liberalism.

Hartmut Günther obtained a PhD in Social Psychology from the University of California at Davis in 1975. Since then, he has worked in Brazil, and has been affiliated with the University of Brasilia since 1988. While there, he started the Environmental Psychology Research Group and was significantly responsible for the growth of Environmental Psychology in Brazil.

Dr Demelza Hall is an early career academic in the field of literary studies at Deakin University (Australia). Her research – which examines relationships between spatialised depictions of home, identity and pedagogy in contemporary literary works – has been widely published both in Australia and overseas, and her most recent study, The Drover's Wife Reading Project, was awarded an ‘ECR Seed Funding’ grant from the Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL) in 2019. In 2022, Demelza will commence an academic leadership role at Guilford Young College in Hobart, Tasmania.

Caroline Machado has a degree in Architecture and Urban Planning from the University of Brasília (2017), an MA in Environmental Psychology (2019) and currently is a PhD student in Architecture and Urbanism. Since 2014 she has been affiliated with the Environmental Psychology Research Group, where she conducted multidisciplinary and cross-cultural research about Healthy Urban Mobility. Her research interests include Environmental Criminology, Public Security, Criminal Profile, Environmental Psychology, Urbanism Production Process, Urban Mobility and Post-Occupation Analysis.

Deirdre Macleod explores material and other related aspects of towns and cities, including the more or less hidden patterns, regulations and strictures that operate within them. Her practice is informed by the discipline of Human Geography, and it draws upon a range of fieldwork methods and contemporary drawing strategies. She is a Lecturer in Art at the Centre of Open Learning, University of Edinburgh. She is also a PhD candidate in Human Geography in the School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh. For more information on her work: deirdre-macleod.com.

Lucas Heiki Matsunaga has a Psychology degree from the University of Brasilia (Brazil) and currently is a graduate student at Tohoku University (Japan) with a scholarship from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan.

Lesley Millar is Professor of Textile Culture and Director of the International Textile Research Centre at the University for the Creative Arts, UK. She is a Curator specialising in textiles, with major international touring exhibitions including: ‘Textural Space’ (2001), ‘Through the Surface’ (2003–2005), ‘21:21 – the textile vision of Reiko Sudo and NUNO’ (2005–2007), ‘Cloth & Culture. NOW’ (2008), ‘Lost in Lace’ (2011–2012.), ‘Cloth & Memory’ {2} (2013), ‘Here & Now: contemporary tapestry’ (2016–2017) and most recently ‘Fabric: Identity and Touch’ (2020–2021). She was Principal Investigator for the EU project ‘Transparent Boundaries’ (2012–2014) with partners in Denmark, Greece, Italy and Poland. She writes regularly about textile practice in Britain and Japan, including The Erotic Cloth (Bloomsbury 2018) and Reading The Thread: cloth and communication (Bloomsbury 2023). In 2008, she received the Japan Society Award for significant contribution to Anglo-Japanese relationships, and in 2011 was appointed MBE for her contribution to Higher Education.

Ingrid Luiza Neto obtained a PhD in Environmental Psychology from the University of Brasília in 2014. Currently, she is a Full Professor at the University Center of the Federal District, where she coordinates the Traffic Psychology Laboratory.

Preface

When Progressive Connexions opened the floor for the theme of spaces and places, a gathering of scholars and professionals took place that reached across an overwhelming variety of disciplines and touched upon a wide array of topics related to spaces and places. The topic of movement stood out, among others. Movement in a literal sense of moving bodies through space and place, and movement in a more figurative way, of shifting perceptions and affects for spaces and places, affect in the meaning of a transitional product of an encounter through the senses. After a first conference on spaces and places, in Bruges, Belgium, in April 2019, the collaboration for this book was started. But then, the project got intercepted by the pandemic, causing serious delays. Luckily, both Emerald Publishers Ltd and Progressive Connexions allowed us to suspend and seek new contributions during a second event on spaces and places, which took place online in March 2021. We were thrilled to find, again, refreshing and cross-cutting perspectives on movement in relation to space and place. Again, however, the road through the pandemic remained bumpy, and new shuffles in the composition of contributions occurred over the course of 2021.

But here we are, and we are thrilled with the outcome. This edited volume, Moving Spaces and Places: Interdisciplinary Essays on Transformative Movements through Space, Place, and Time, presents a collection of 10 contributions which all approach the relationship between movement and spaces and places in surprising ways. We are aware that the relationship between movement and space and place is not a new topic, already addressed by many – predominantly spatial scholars – in multiple ways. But the diversity of these current contributions, as well as their multi- and cross-disciplinarity approaches, reveals a depth to the theme that none of us had anticipated. Each of the contributions tells its own unique story of how movement is both an act of physical moving bodies and objects, as well as a way in which perceptions and affects can be unsettled and shifted. The contributions also illustrate how physical and psychological movements are often intertwined, creating new relationships between people and the spaces and places they inhabit, as well as new relationships with their own selves. The contributions illustrate how aesthetic experience, the study of culture and art, artistic and participatory practices play a crucial role in bringing the physical and psychological experience of movement into symbiosis. Moreover, the book reveals how physical duration and agency as a psychological act create a potential for healing and reconciling the often broken, interrupted or disturbed relationships between people and places and spaces.

The creation of this book has been an exhilarating journey. The suspense and forced reorientations due to pandemic challenges, granted us time to think and to reflect and revealed to us the intertwining of physical and psychological movement, and the transformative potential that emerges from this intertwinement. As such, this book does not only speak of transformative movements across real, physical spaces and places, but also is the result of a transformative experience itself.

Acknowledgements

First and foremost, our gratitude goes to Emerald Publishing Ltd for giving us the opportunity to develop this project on movement and spaces and places, and let it materialise as the project itself and the pandemic dictated. The support of the publishing assistants and copy editors has been great. Special thanks go to Susanne Schotanus for her enthusiastic and critical reading of the chapters and her invaluable suggestions for bringing the chapters into more consistency and bringing to the fore the running threads throughout the book. Our thanks also go to Ramya Murali, Katy Mathers and Sumitha Selvamani for their support and understanding for our process, as well as all the people of Emerald Publishing Ltd involved in the publication of this book. Your support has been fundamental to its successful completion.

Secondly, our thanks goes to Progressive Connexions for the organisation of two inspiring events: the first conference on spaces and places in Bruges, April 2019, and the second (online) conference on spaces and places in March 2021. Their call for interdisciplinary perspectives on spaces and places has given ground to the truly enriching experience of putting this book together. Our special thanks go out to Teresa Cutler-Broyles, the soul and creator of these events, and our lightning beacon through pandemic disturbances. You always kept faith and never let us take our eyes off the content and the creation of the book. And you were always there to delve into the even deeper levels of meaning that connected the chapters in the book. Stefano Rozzoni, thank you for your ever lasting optimism, your critical observations, supportive thinking and inspiration, as well as your pioneering efforts in creating the other Progressive Connexions book on space and place: Re-imagining Spaces and Places: Essays on Identity, Spaces, and Places (2022). Beitske Boonstra, your always kind reminders and constant work to keep this volume on track has resulted in our meeting all the deadlines, and your communications with the authors has been exemplary in sometimes difficult circumstances. Your vision and dedication are inspiring: thank you for all that you have done.

Thirdly and lastly, we would like to thank all the contributors to the book. Many of you were there at our very start in Bruges; some of you joined the project at a later stage. For all of you, we are very thankful that you have stood with us through these challenging years and most of all, to remain adaptive to the transformations in the thematic focus of the book. Changes in the lineup of authors (mostly due to the pandemic) first forced us to shift focus, and at the very end of putting the book together, we as editors noticed an emerging consistency, a new connecting line throughout the book which we could not let go unnoticed. We thank you all sincerely for your latest efforts in making this connecting line even more explicit in your works. We deeply feel this book has been a collective journey that has transformed and enriched us all.