RabachK VtP Annotation: DemonicGrounds

In terms of characterizing ethnographic places, and really space/place more generally, McKittrick’s work encourages us to think about the overlapping “physical, metaphorical, theoretical, and experiential contours” of a space. How do we think about places as three-dimensional? How do certain places overlap with “subjectivities, imaginations, and stories” (xiii)? When characterizing place, then, how do we navigate between the past, present, and possibly even the future? For me, McKittrick’s work with materiality and scale, especially in relation to the physicality of the auction block itself, has me wondering how we characterize a place in terms of physicality? How can bodies be incorporated into our characterization of place? How can we incorporate the immediacy and materiality of certain places?