ABSTRACT
Introduction: A Sense of Place It is sometimes unfair to cite ‘private’ documents, such as book proposals. However, I hope the editors won’t mind if I risk being unfair in this instance. Jean Hillier clearly set the tone for this volume when she wrote:
sense of the other’s place – enough to incorporate a sense of the spectrality of places. By this, I do not simply mean that places have a ghostliness to them, although places clearly are ghostly in many ways. 1 I am more interested in the entanglements of place and affect; and, therefore, in what ghosts can tell us about the role of affect in social senses of place – and about other senses of place, and other senses of the other’s place. The agenda of this chapter is to install affect at the heart of what we might refer to as habitus. This is to argue strongly, in other words, that we cannot understand social senses of space unless there is a place for feelings, emotions and affect.
