Poster short abstract:

One of the ways in which we maneuver the lived uncertainty of being in time/the world is through constructing material archives of our memories, generating affective or emotional territories. This poster ethnographically unpacks how everyday objects are experienced and enmeshed in the social world.

Poster long abstract:

This poster proposes the question: what kind of agency do objects have in the social order, and how is that agency affectively and emotionally experienced by people? It explores the position of objects in the social world. It ethnographically investigates how people understand and relate to objects around them in their everyday life, while also considering the impact objects have on people, hence showing how they are enmeshed within multiple complex social relations. This poster attempts to unpack this to show how, in times of uncertainty, the most banal of objects can not only anchor us or allow us to endure, but can also provide so much meaning and affect through acts of remembrances imposed on us by our bodies at junctures of time. This is done ethnographically using a collection of photographs and interviews. This poster is also accompanied by an online gallery: https://aliashaddad.pixieset.com/affectiveemotionalterritoriestheaestheticsoftimeandthecommodificationofmemory/