Connective Tissues: Everyday Engagements with Urban Yards. Issue 1 (2nd January 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Lang, Ursula
• Is Part Of: GeoHumanities. Volume 4:Issue 1(2018)
• Page Start: 230
• Page End: 248
• Publication Date: 2018-01-02
• Subjects: affect -- everyday life -- representation -- visual ethnography -- yards; 情绪 -- 每日生活 -- 再现 -- 视觉民族志 -- 庭院; afecto -- vida cotidiana -- representación -- etnografía visual -- patios; Arts and geography -- Periodicals; Human geography -- Periodicals; 304.2
• DOI: 10.1080/2373566X.2018.1447388
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2373-566X

Abstract

Abstract : This photo essay is rooted in the overlapping edges of urban environmentalisms, the politics of care, and everyday microgeographies of cultivation and inhabitation. The essay offers situated and partial views into yards in Minneapolis, Minnesota, made during several years of research with residents in their yards. Here, yards constitute often overlooked connective tissue for residential landscapes—both territorially, and also relationally. I pair images I made with text—not as objective or neutral illustration, but as part of a search for modes of address adequate to circulations of affect, power, difference, and care. There are many possibilities, as well as pressing reasons, to imagine yards relationally. My research investigates how yards do social and political work as affective realms of embodied engagements, skill, and practice within collective capacities for handling difference, emotion, care, and experimentation.