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This paper problematizes notions of good/bad mothering by putting to work Deleuze and Guattari's haecceity. Focusing on babywearing, it presents an autoethnography of my experiences of becoming-mother during the Covid-19 pandemic. Using diffractive analysis, I analyze the entanglement of my experiences of babywearing, research diaries, images/selfies, the regulations introduced during the pandemic, and the "global cultural script" of being a good mother. It works toward a position of (k)not knowing, being open to the unknown. Under the lens of haecceity, becoming-mother is "thisness"—a middle, knotting, and unknotting, ever emergent.

Contents -- About the Authors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1: Introduction -- What Is Critical Event Studies? -- Outline of the Book -- Part I: Critical Considerations -- Part II: Discursive, Historical, and Ideological Perspectives -- Part III: Encountering the Event -- References -- Part I: Critical Considerations -- 2: Problems of Involvement and Detachment: A Critical Approach to Researching Live Event Experiences -- Introduction -- Research Philosophy: The Problem of Binary Opposites -- Norbert Elias and Problems of Involvement and Detachment -- A Detour via Detachment

This paper offers a critical analysis of how urban placemaking as a top-down or bottom-up action, involving organizational intervention or facilitation, is typified by problematic angles of approach. Instead, we evidence a flat ontological perspective, entering into urban assemblages to feel the chaotic and ever-changing forces that make places. Specifically, we use the Deleuzoguattarian lens of the refrain to employ a transversal analysis of the placemaking inherent within an urban event—the Manchester and Salford Whit Walks, a Church of England procession that has been iterated for over 200 years. This reveals the importance of always-becoming place, characterized by ongoing repetition with difference, and embodied in the notion of Sometimes. . . Sometimes. . . Sometimes. . .. We conclude that urban placemaking is not something that can be simply started through organizational intervention, or facilitation of community-led approaches, but a process that needs to be engaged with from the middle.

This article explores consumers' experiences of place atmospheres through a study into football matches, a context in which atmosphere is pertinent. While existing marketing literature concerning atmospherics largely conceptualises atmosphere as controllable, singular, and confined to the consumption environment and experience under investigation, we instead contribute a more spatially and temporally porous theorisation. Drawing insights from both consumer research and geography surrounding affect, embodiment and atmosphere, we unpack the spatial and temporal aspects of atmosphere in relation to consumers' past memories, disrupted routines, and anticipations of future. The article contributes, therefore, to bourgeoning literature within marketing and consumer research regarding the consumption in – and of – places.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Contents Curated by Topics -- List of Figures -- List of Abbreviations -- List of Editors -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1 Introduction: What really matters : moving placemaking into a new epoch -- What is placemaking? -- Placemaking as a community of practice? -- The next placemaking epoch -- References -- Further reading in this volume -- Section 1 History and theory of placemaking -- Preface: Placemaking in the age of COVID-19 and protest -- What we learn from this chapter -- What's next? -- Reference -- Further reading in this volume -- Chapter 2 Placemaking as an economic engine for all -- Introduction -- How we got here -- Rebuilding the strength of urban settlements through innovative, multi-pronged investment strategies -- How 'place' drives productivity and shifts the geography of innovation -- Place-oriented development: how parks and open space enhance real estate value -- Pre-emptive efforts to keep places open and accessible -- Conclusion -- References -- Further reading in this volume -- Chapter 3 An annotated history of creative placemaking at the federal level -- Introduction -- Responding to the Great Recession -- Seeding creative placemaking with federal and philanthropic funding -- Our Town: NEA funding for local pilot projects -- Making creative placemaking projects legible -- Investing in knowledge-building and network organizations -- Accelerating community capacity to support local work -- Reflecting on a decade of federal investment in creative placemaking -- References -- Further reading in this volume -- Chapter 4 A future of creative placemaking -- Introduction -- The future -- Imagining and remembering -- Advancing equity -- Building relationships -- Fostering cross-sector collaboration.

In this article we disrupt extractivist and privileged individualised knowledge production by decentering the human 'I' to 'we' through storying. By entangling more-than-human bodies, 'we' is re-configured through a posthuman praxis of an iterative metamorphosing Baglady storying collective. Starting with the provocation of locking and unlocking, we story as a way to make sense of political and ethical affectivities that disrupt and interrupt everyday materialities and spatialities. From here, we speculate with movements of response-ability as "intra-activism" (Renold & Ringrose, 2017, 631). For us, storying puts in motion intra-action, speculation, calls to act, relationality and feminist community building that we frame as intra-storying-activism. Making and re-making stories with intra-storying-activism navigates non-hierarchical post-authorship to re-imagine, speculate-with and trouble the human from extractivist positions. By foregrounding relationality as a multiplying storying, we create playful, dynamic and generative spaces for knowledge making as a collective that both welcomes and provokes calls to act.