Books written by Steve Pile

The Body and the City: Psychoanalysis, Space, and Subjectivity

TOWERING: MEAGHAN MORRIS AND THE LIMITS OF PHALLIC ARROGANCE From a Lefebvrian or psychoanalytic perspective, it can be suggested that the Manhattan skyline is not just about an alliance between a phallic formant of space and abstract ...
The Body and the City: Psychoanalysis, Space and Subjectivity

It was Bunting and Guelke who best caught the mood of scepticism surrounding behavioural geography (Bunting and Guelke, 1979). They criticised behavioural geography's concentration on 'The Image' and this was blamed for the theoretical ...
Psychoanalytic Geographies

Fergusson, D. 2012. Persons in relation: the interaction of philosophy, ... London: Hogarth Press. Searles, H.F. 1990. Unconscious identification, in Master Clinicians: On Treating the Regressed Patient, edited by L.B. Boyer ...
Geographies of Resistance

The anti - Sufi movement has accelerated largely through the leadership of Sheikh Abubakar Gumi who has employed the Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation and the Kadunabased Hausa language newspaper Gaskiya ta fi Kwabo to great effect in ...
City Worlds

... when you have known them for over twenty years, and telephone- banking, when you'll never meet the person you're dealing with—and, indeed, you may never be in the same country, let alone the same city (see Graham and Marvin, 1995).
Psychoanalytic Geographies

... these schools are a lifesaver” (Kroll 2009: online, emphasis added). While Duncan did not elaborate on who exactly the “right child” for JROTC programs might be, the Department of Defense has been somewhat more explicit, ...
Real Cities: Modernity, Space and the Phantasmagorias of City Life

The phantasmagorias of city life, though commonplace, are far from self-evident and little understood. This book is a path-breaking exploration of urban phantasmagorias, grounded empirically in a series of unusual and exciting case studies.
Places Through the Body

This exciting collection opens up many new conversations on BodyPlace and introduces new theories of embodied places and the placing of bodies.
City A-Z: Urban Fragments

city around the world blessed with some kind of public telephones). Ever since 'public call offices' were authorized in Britain by the Postmaster General in 1884, telephone boxes have been the container of forms of individual and ...
The Body and the City: Psychoanalysis, Space and Subjectivity

Before this , let me return to the spaces of mind , body , city and civilisation . Although Freud is taken by the idea that psychoanalysis might be an archaeology of the mind , he rejects the idea that the mind is like Rome on spatial ...
Mapping the Subject: Geographies of Cultural Transformation

Why is it good to be in the landscape? Which practices and people are fit for the English countryside? ... landscape and citizenship has entailed excursions into litter, noise, country walking, maps, trespass, youth movements, fitness, ...
Handbook of Cultural Geography

Mikesell, M. (1978) 'Tradition and innovation in cultural geography', Annals of the Association of American Geographers 68 (1): 1–16. ... (1995) Ground Truth: The Social Implications of Geographic Information Systems.
Spaces of Spirituality

Spirituality is therefore not, in this book, a synonym for, nor coextensive with, religion. ... Spiritual landscapes, for them, are constituted by the relationship between 'bodily existence, felt practice and faith in things' (page 696) ...
Bodies, Affects, Politics: The Clash of Bodily Regimes

What hurts Raymond's ears is the noise of a grass skirt that she feels she has been clothed in. The noise of the grass skirt is unbearable: it is not just that the grass skirt positions her as 'out of place', it also places her 'out of ...
Unruly Cities?: Order/Disorder

The text argues that cities are open to many forms of order and disorder both from within the city and outside. They represent cities potentials as well as their problems.
Psychoanalytic Geographies

Elaborating on a variety of psychoanalytic approaches that embrace geographical imaginations and a commitment toward spatial thinking, this book demonstrates the breadth, depth, and vitality of cutting-edge work in psychoanalytic ...
Bodies, Affects, Politics: The Clash of Bodily Regimes

This book seeks to understand the coexistence of bodily regimes and the politics that emerge from the clash between them: Presents a novel conceptual model for understanding the relationship between bodies and affects Reworks Rancière's ...
City A-Z

Perhaps city life demands it: too many unknown factors. So, why not give someone a call? ... In the city, too, the cemetery is a dead technology. ... On the other hand, who can tell what lies buried beneath the city?
City Worlds

Never before have we confronted such a geography of the worlds people. Analysing cities through spatial understanding, City Worlds explores how different worlds within the city are brought into close proximity.
Real Cities: Modernity, Space and the Phantasmagorias of City Life

For Copjec (1994, Chapter 5), blood is to be understood in relation to anxiety.3 The desire for (drinking) blood, in this view, ... What these psychoanalytic accounts suggest is that the figure of the vampire is overdetermined, ...