“Smells Like Bureaucracy”: Material Overhang, Affective Atmosphere, and the Obstruction of Place-Making
Published online on December 12, 2025
Abstract
Journal of Management Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
This paper takes an interest in how buildings can obstruct place-making efforts. Drawing on ethnographic research of a refugee emergency shelter in Germany, we explore how volunteers and refugees seek to turn a previous administrative office complex into ...
This paper takes an interest in how buildings can obstruct place-making efforts. Drawing on ethnographic research of a refugee emergency shelter in Germany, we explore how volunteers and refugees seek to turn a previous administrative office complex into ...