Urban infrastructure, sense of emplacement and sensory politics: Living with the railway in a new neighbourhood of Turku

• Studying meanings of urban infrastructure through sensory affective everyday practices. • Scrutinizing infrastructure as something different than its intended and designed purpose. • Analysing infrastructure as affective moments which generate residents' sense of emplacement. • Understanding the multi-temporality of infrastructure in urban atmosphere. • Understanding sensory politics as part of urban emplacement.

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Emotion, space and society
Published
2026-03-26
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emospa.2026.101170
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Water Governance and Infrastructure
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Urban infrastructure, sense of emplacement and sensory politics: Living with the railway in a new neighbourhood of Turku

Tiina Suopajärvi, Jenni Rinne
Emotion, space and society
Water Governance and Infrastructure
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Urban infrastructure, sense of emplacement and sensory politics: Living with the railway in a new neighbourhood of Turku

Tiina Suopajärvi, Jenni Rinne
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Abstract

• Studying meanings of urban infrastructure through sensory affective everyday practices. • Scrutinizing infrastructure as something different than its intended and designed purpose. • Analysing infrastructure as affective moments which generate residents' sense of emplacement. • Understanding the multi-temporality of infrastructure in urban atmosphere. • Understanding sensory politics as part of urban emplacement.

Emotion, space and societyVol. 59
University of Oulu (FI)
Sustainable cities and communities
Openalex Percentile: Top 10%
Water Governance and Infrastructure
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