ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the lens of affective heritage to consider some of the implications of designating housing, in particular social housing, as cultural heritage for residents' and former residents' sense of belonging to place. It presents a theoretical framework with a Thriftian approach to affect concerned with describing 'practices, mundane everyday practices, that shape the conduct of human beings towards others and themselves in particular sites'. Three important points requires drawing from this statement. The first is a turn towards an emphasis on practice which allows us to think about affect as something that goes beyond precognition and to consider how affect becomes known through its movement between bodies. The second is an understanding of affect 'working' on our bodies through contagion. The third is the 'mundane everyday practices' of heritage in social housing, which diverge from much of the literature surrounding emotions and heritage, which often focuses on the spectacular and the overtly traumatic.
