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In: Landscapes of Affect and Emotion
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Abstract
People make cities to fit for living by assembling urban character with meaningful entities of nature. This means that people rework their emotions as a result of mobility and shifting perspectives. Thus, emotions can be approached in terms of movement or motion as kinds of trajectories of force. These lines form a meshwork become essential components of being alive. The current paper aims to understand these kinds of affective trajectories that are generated and experienced along dacha allotment gardens in Narva, Estonia, by asking two questions: how plural mobility co-exists with meaningful human-nature interactions as essential part of forming landscapes? How these emotional interactions contribute to caretaking of landscapes and evolvement of peri-urbanity? The context of Narva as a border city on the eastern periphery of European Union provides several dimensions to the thematic focus as well. The empirical material of the paper is based on an ethnographic study and qualitative interviews. The study results indicate the rural dimension and multiple engagements with nature in wider urbanisation dynamics of Narva area. The plural mobility and emotional care motivated and maintained by allotment gardening constitute the dispersed landscapes as a connective tissue of peri-urban features. Landscape histories of the peri-urbanity indicate particular ruptures and reassembles along the state-border regimes. The analysis on peri-urbanisation should take into account the active role of fringes and of countryside ideals.