Vivid and vibrant criminological landscapes

The chapters in this section foreground the sensory to study the symbolic, political, and cultural meanings attached to place and space. In her piece on marginalized men’s sensory experiences in state-led transitional housing in Cape Town, South Africa, Priti Mohandas leverages the metaphor of a chokehold to reveal how the men feel literally, socially, and politically suspended in a state of suffocation. Kevin Barnes-Ceeney and Victoria Espinoza explore how, among formerly incarcerated people in America, the vibrancy of release day is tempered by a pessimistic emotionality that is honed inside prison walls. Luisa Schneider highlights the pain of houseless men who literally carry their homes on their bodies as they traverse the city of Leipzig, Germany. Anna di Ronco and Nina Persak’s discussion of mass tourism in Venice and Amsterdam explores how the senses are woven into the social construction of urban social problems and their purported solutions. From South Africa to Germany and the Netherlands to Italy, these chapters invite readers to examine the meaning of space in radically different geographic, cultural, social, and political contexts.