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Sensing the industrial neighbourhoods Sensing the industrial neighbourhoods
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Co-creating atmospheres in social housing yards Co-creating atmospheres in social housing yards
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Imagining places and their temporalities Imagining places and their temporalities
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The images of the Yekaterinburg neighbourhood The images of the Yekaterinburg neighbourhood
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The images of the Moscow neighbourhood The images of the Moscow neighbourhood
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Conclusion Conclusion
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Notes Notes
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2 Local atmospheres and imaginaries of industrial neighbourhoods
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Published:January 2024
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Abstract
The chapter explores how structures of feeling shape everyday life and local atmospheres in the Moscow and Yekaterinburg neighbourhoods. Developing Williams’s concept through multi-sited ethnography, the author defines structure of feeling as an affective principle regulating sensual experiences, spatial imaginaries and practical activities of local communities within socio-material infrastructures. Following Doreen Massey’s vision of space as ‘a discrete multiplicity’ imbued with temporality, the authors extends and theorises structures of feeling as temporal and spatial micro-orders, coinciding in multiple centres of the social universe. In deindustrialising urban areas of Russia, structures of feeling manifest in convergences of temporal and spatial registers and in combinations of discrete elements from the Soviet and post-Soviet eras. Co-existing structures of feeling generate multiple lived experiences of residents of industrial neighbourhoods. It is argued that this co-existence of Soviet (socialist/ industrial) and post-Soviet (neoliberal/ post-industrial) structures in landscapes and infrastructures sometimes result in contradictions of spatial imaginaries of industrial neighbourhoods. Working-class and long-standing middle-class residents show an affective attachment to place and tend to imagine their neighbourhoods with the help of an industrial residual structure of feeling comprising values of factory culture, communality and shared space. In contrast, an emergent structure of feeling is informed by values of neoliberal development, individual comfort and private space. Structures of feeling shape sensual and imaginative relations between people within local communities and relations of people with their places of residence. They create particular local atmospheres and moods of places and regulate how deindustrialising communities sense and imagine their neighbourhoods.
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