Penelope Rossiter Penelope Rossiter i(18491003 works by)
Gender: Female
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1 The Municipal Pool in Australia: Emotional Geography and Affective Intensities Penelope Rossiter , 2019 single work essay
— Appears in: Emotions: History, Society and Culture , vol. 3 no. 2 2019; (p. 300-320) In many Australian communities, outdoor municipal pools are much loved yet constantly threatened with closure. Threats of closure inspire impassioned responses and it is clear that these seasonal pools offer much more than physical infrastructure. At first glance, the concept of ‘emotional geography’ seems to capture this ‘more’, and this essay, based on research at one such pool, demonstrates how pools afford sociality, embodied experiences and practices of emplacement that emotionally connect people to each other, to nature and to an imagined historical community. However, participants’ narratives also revealed affective intensities, and multisensory evocations of place and self synchronically encountered, that the concept of ‘emotional geography’ cannot capture. To understand the cultural meaning and personal significance of seasonal pools in Australia, we have to feel our way through the placial folding of affective intensities and emotional lives. (Source: publisher's abstract)
1 Swimming-Glancing Penelope Rossiter , 2019 single work essay
— Appears in: Cultural Studies Review , December vol. 25 no. 2 2019; (p. 307-310)
1 Take a Plunge into the Memories of Australia’s Favourite Swimming Pools Penelope Rossiter , 2019 single work column
— Appears in: The Conversation , 25 December 2019;

'From the smell of chlorine to water bombing and a mixing of cultures – just some of reminiscences of 28 Australians in the book, The Memory Pool: Australian stories of summer, sun and swimming compiled by Therese Spruhan.'  (Introduction)
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