Close menu

SURE

Sunderland Repository records the research produced by the University of Sunderland including practice-based research and theses.

Cities of Feet and Hands: Urban Habitations

Moores, Shaun, Krajina, Zlatan and Stevenson, Deborah (2019) Cities of Feet and Hands: Urban Habitations. In: The Routledge Companion to Urban Media and Communication. Routledge. ISBN 9781315211633

Item Type: Book Section

Abstract

When Michel de Certeau asserts that walking manipulates spatial organizations, he is clearly employing a metaphor of manual activity. In this chapter, I discuss de Certeau’s bustling, mobile city of feet, but in pursuing his notion of manipulation I also want to discuss what Ash Amin and Nigel Thrift have named the city of hands. These geographers propose that hands, which are involved in the deft, skillful manipulation of things like computer keyboards and car steering wheels, are crucial yet largely forgotten elements of everyday urban living. The main contention of my chapter is that, taken together, such cities of feet and hands, of moving, knowledgeable bodies in practical, sensuous, tactile dealings with environments and technologies, are important considerations for urban cultural analysis. This is because they are inextricably linked with matters of dwelling in the city or, in the terms of my subtitle, with urban habitations.

Full text not available from this repository.

More Information

Depositing User: Leah Maughan

Identifiers

Item ID: 12822
ISBN: 9781315211633
URI: http://sure.sunderland.ac.uk/id/eprint/12822
Official URL: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/978131521163...

Users with ORCIDS

ORCID for Shaun Moores: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-5693-0520

Catalogue record

Date Deposited: 25 Nov 2020 16:35
Last Modified: 27 May 2021 08:46

Contributors

Author: Shaun Moores ORCID iD
Author: Zlatan Krajina
Author: Deborah Stevenson

University Divisions

Faculty of Arts and Creative Industries > School of Media and Communications

Actions (login required)

View Item (Repository Staff Only) View Item (Repository Staff Only)