Forms and scenes of attachment: A cultural geography of promises

Attachment is everywhere and nowhere in contemporary cultural geography. Cultural geography full of relations that look like attachments. But attachment as a concept mostly absent, used interchangeably with association, connection or simply relation per se. In this article, I respond to dissatisfaction the flattening effects relational turn by arguing for orientated Engaging work Lauren Berlant other feminist queer theory dialogue actor-network theory, conceptualise attachments enduring trajectories ‘bring closer’ something which comes feel necessary way life. This means ‘objects’ – whether person place, song nation anything else come be encountered promises. To understand (de/re)composition attachments, paper offers two concepts. Forms are arrangements make available promises attached to. They channel optimism attachment. The presence promissory object intensifies scenes everyday space-times limited duration give an affective push forms result orientating inquiry