The atmospheric tensions of Ljubljana’s urban squats: consumption in the lawscape

Kanellopoulou, Evgenia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1905-0836 and Ntounis, Nikos ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2517-3031 (2024) The atmospheric tensions of Ljubljana’s urban squats: consumption in the lawscape. In: Consuming Atmospheres: designing, experiencing, and researching atmospheres in consumption spaces. Routledge Studies in Marketing . Routledge, London, pp. 137-156. ISBN 9781032264929 (hardback); 9781003288510 (ebook)

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Abstract

This chapter deals with the consumption of urban atmospheres within the lawscape of a European urban centre. It presents the nature of changes surrounding such consumption practices from the unique lens of spatio-legal scholarship, combining the study of legal-scapes with the study of consumption-scapes as a field of enquiry. The chapter more specifically offers a peripatetic narrative approach of the squatted areas of Ljubljana, Slovenia, in order to evaluate the particular role and appeal that the law affords the atmosphere in a legally disputed setting. In doing so, it aims to appreciate the interactions between law and city and document the changes in the atmosphere that was experienced as the authors moved from one place to the next. The chapter adopts the lawscape as a focal point which enables the simultaneous evaluation of law, space, and atmosphere in their political, aesthetic, and post-human dimensions, building on the notion of atmosphere as an embodied and dynamic experience.