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Walking with light and the discontinuous experience of urban change
Author(s) -
Ebbensgaard Casper Laing,
Edensor Tim
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
transactions of the institute of british geographers
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.196
H-Index - 107
eISSN - 1475-5661
pISSN - 0020-2754
DOI - 10.1111/tran.12424
Subject(s) - temporalities , temporality , embodied cognition , subjectivity , aesthetics , sociology , history , epistemology , political science , art , philosophy , law
This paper is concerned with the affective power of light, darkness, and illumination and their role in exposing and obscuring processes of rapid urban change. By detailing the discontinuous experience of walking through differently lit spaces, the paper develops novel ways of conceptualising the experience that unsettle common understandings of subjectivity, temporality, and the city. The paper draws on a single night's walk from Canning Town to Canary Wharf in east London.