Emotions and Socio-Spatial Segregation in Lithuanian cities: Am I Powerful Enough to Influence change?
Journal Title: KultŁ«ra ir visuomenė. SocialiniŁ³ tyrimŁ³ Ł¾urnalas - Year 2013, Vol 4, Issue 2
Abstract
Emotional attachments are not only an important way of dealing with physical struc- tures that people encounter in their everyday but also an indicator of people’s imagina- tion of urban space and meanings that they attach to it.This article focuses on emotions arising from the use of given urban spaces and affective investments that lie in the physical space of three lithuanian cities, Vilnius, Kaunas and Klaipėda. using the quantitative data (a survey conducted within the research project “Social exclusion in lithuanian cities: forms of Spatial Segregation and Polarization” (2012), the article analyzes the structures of feeling of power/powerlessness that people attach to different neighborhoods in Vilnius, Kaunas and Klaipėda. examining the geography of emotions that people draw with regard to their neighbor- hoods, the paper argues that respondents often articulate socio-spatial segregation and spatial inequality in terms of the weighty emotions of passivity, insecurity, mistrust in their abilities to affect local change and local government’s decisions. it can be argued that these emotions create social barriers and distances. They prevent the emergence of positive, socially bonding collective practices and provoke some collective urban expe- rience (for instance, feeling unsafe and “disposable”) that contribute to socio-spatial segregation of some neighborhoods in the lithuanian cities, particularly those that are at the lowest end of social hierarchies (working-class and Soviet style neighborhoods). They divide and fragment these neighborhoods and communities instead of bringing them closer together and create the so-called places of marginality marred by the grow- ing urban inequality and social antagonisms.
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Artūras Tereškinas, Apolonijus Žilys
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