Conclusion: Gender, place and affect

This concluding chapter draws the different strands from our 14 chapters together to throw further light on our organizing themes of attachment, disruption and belonging and how these key affective-geographical formations are imbued with gendered dynamics. It explores how chapters speak in different ways to affect’s relationality, transmissibility and bodily capacity, furthering our understanding of the dynamic interplay between the transpersonal processes of affect and gender in the making and experiences of place. With a focus on place as both material and processual, and with an emphasis on gender as spatial, relational and embodied – a corporeal and affective process of becoming that is inseparable from context – this chapter explores the affective and spatial dimensions of advantage and disadvantage. With an inclusive categorization of gender and other categories of difference, such as race, class, sexuality and/or whiteness, this chapter examines how the affective processes of place are shaped, encountered and experienced. It concludes with a discussion of place making, atmospheres and intensity, highlighting a view of gender as spatial, relational and embodied.