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This chapter engages with the notion of dwelling as a topological space of being with and acting in the world. Dwelling denotes both the materialities, technologies and architectures which assemble domestic space, and the affective, performative, discursive and socio-cultural relations which animate it as a space of belonging, identity and meaning-making. Dwelling, then, signifies a `place called home’ (Massey, 1992), but is anathema to the idea of a static and bounded site of domesticity. Rather, dwelling emerges from a relational space of fluid and contingent dis/alignments and takes shape not only in the entanglements and hybridities of a multiplicity of spatial logics – inside/outside; proximate/distant; private/public; virtual/actual; intensive/extensive – but is also forged from a nexus of interacting co-constitutive elements which are both material and cultural, technological and affective, human and nonhuman. Topologies of dwelling offer criminologists creative ways for reimagining the spatial dynamics of criminogenic and victimogenic domestic worlds, and bring fresh insights to our critical engagements with questions of privacy, surveillance, risk, security, justice and power. Focusing on the topological imaginaries of two cinematic dwellings – Anon (2018), and The Invisible Man (2020) - the chapter explores their complex enfoldings of domestic space, not regarded here as fantastical and futuristic, so much as emblematic of how we navigate and experience the ambiguities and instabilities of contemporary modes of dwelling.
Author(s): Campbell E
Editor(s): Davies P; Rowe M
Publication type: Book Chapter
Publication status: Published
Book Title: Criminology of the Domestic
Year: 2023
Pages: 13-33
Print publication date: 29/06/2023
Online publication date: 29/06/2023
Acceptance date: 13/01/2022
Series Title: Routledge Studies in Crime, Justice and the Family
Publisher: Routledge
Place Published: London
URL: https://www.routledge.com/Criminology-of-the-Domestic/Davies-Rowe/p/book/9781032168166
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ISBN: 9781032168166
