Abstract
This article reviews recent literature on shopping malls that reaffirms their importance for human geography. Taking Goss’s seminal work on the ‘magic of the mall’ as a starting point, we trace how recent works attuned to emotion and affect have updated and inspired a re-conceptualization of this potential ‘magic’. Synthesizing the linkages between consumer architecture with spatial politics and emotional and affective sensibilities in those spaces, the article seeks to help set the agenda for further research in this field by emphasizing how social difference infuses the retail atmosphere and the way it reveals the workings of geopolitics.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 910-926 |
| Journal | Progress in Human Geography |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue number | 5 |
| Early online date | 13 Sept 2018 |
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| Publication status | E-pub ahead of print - 13 Sept 2018 |
Keywords
- Consumption
- affect
- emotion
- shopping mall
- subjectivity
- geopolitics