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'Total Gating': Sociality and the Fortification of Networked Spaces

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Starting with a description of Wynyard Park in Teesside, a development that combines gated residence, workplace and leisure space, 'fear of the other' is identified as a key but underexplored motivating force behind this kind of 'total gating', an argument based on existing empirical studies of gated communities. It is argued that a radical reading of Emmanuel Levinas' ethics of the other can do the explanatory work that would flesh out this allusion to fear: first, by reading the unknowable Levinasian other as repulsive in his/her threat to the individual's ontological security; and second, by making ontological insecurity fundamental to Levinas' account of ethical sociality. To conclude, this work is then situated in a mobility/moorings discourse.

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  • David W. Hill, 2012. "'Total Gating': Sociality and the Fortification of Networked Spaces," Mobilities, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 7(1), pages 115-129, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rmobxx:v:7:y:2012:i:1:p:115-129
    DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2012.631814
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