Bettocchi, Milo (2022) Affect, infrastructure and activism: The House of Brag's London Queer Social Centre in Brixton, South London. Emotion, Space and Society, 42. ISSN 1755-4586
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The House of Brag was a queer, anti-racist, feminist squatting collective active between 2012 and 2014. This article pieces together an affective and infrastructural geography of the House of Brag's last project: a squatted social centre in Brixton, south London, in the summer of 2014. Drawing on interviews with members of the collective, this article argues that efforts to think and live social and political alternatives – and the affective dimensions of these efforts – cannot be abstracted from their infrastructures. The material space and infrastructure of the squatted social centre, this article contends, shaped the House of Brag's dynamics and work in crucial ways. In foregrounding these issues, this article contributes to literature on geographies of affect, emotions and social movements, in which conflict and ‘negative’ affects and emotions are often minimised, and which largely overlook the complex material geographies of spaces of activism. In exploring a queer, anti-racist, feminist squatted project in 2010s London, this article also contributes to literature on squatting by focusing on a time period, on politics and on locations largely overlooked.
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| Additional Information: | Funding Information: This work was supported by funding from the Economic and Social Research Council [grant number 1508787 ]. I am grateful to all who granted me interviews and were so generous with their time, their thoughts and their experiences. Many thanks to Stephen Legg, Shaun French, David Miller and two anonymous reviewers for their careful reading of and their insightful comments on earlier drafts of this paper. Publisher Copyright: © 2021 |
| Divisions: | Gender Studies |
| Date Deposited: | 03 May 2024 09:51 |
| Last Modified: | 23 Nov 2024 08:03 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/122884 |
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