The affirming affects of entrepreneurial redevelopment: Architecture, sport, and local food in Oklahoma City

Eric Sarmiento

Environment and Planning A, 2018, vol. 50, issue 2, 327-349

Abstract: This paper draws on assemblage thinking—especially Deleuze and Guattari’s conception of territorialization—to analyze urban redevelopment processes in Oklahoma City, a mid-sized city in the central United States that has pursued a culturally led, “entrepreneurial†approach to redevelopment. Focusing on the linkages between architecture, sport, and local food in the city, I demonstrate some of the ways in which these realms were woven together in support of the territorial expansion of redevelopment. Following recent research on affect in human geography, I argue that the interweaving of these realms involved careful attention to the material capacities of buildings, athletic bodies, and foods to generate a sense of excitement, pride in place, self-worth, and above all movement in the city. The paper concludes with a discussion of some of the implications of this analysis for the politics of redevelopment and some suggestions for future research.

Keywords: Affect; alternative food networks; architectural geography; territorialization; urban redevelopment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1177/0308518X17743506

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