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Special Feature: European Urban Spaces in Crisis: The Mapping of Affective Practices with Living with Difference

Affective practices in the European city of encounter

Reflections from a distance

Pages 545-551 | Published online: 30 Jul 2015
 

Abstract

The city's pivotal role in generating, assembling and mobilizing differences provides fertile ground for examining a spectrum of ‘close’ and ‘strange’ encounters between people, the accompanying expressions of emotion and the circulation of embodied affect as they unfold in a culturally diverse world. In this context, I first attend to the different ways in which the papers in this special feature demonstrate the significance of affective practices in influencing urban encounter in the European city of difference. I then explore from the vantage point of a very different site—the newly independent, post-colonial, multicultural, rapidly globalizing city of Singapore located in Asia—the conditions that go into the production of ‘different’ or ‘similar’ affective practices shaping human encounters with difference.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.

Funding

This work was supported by HSSRF Grant [WBS R-395-000-025-646].

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Notes on contributors

Brenda S. A. Yeoh

Brenda S. A. Yeoh is a Professor in the Department of Geography, National University of Singapore.

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