Recomposing Aesthetic Anxiety and Perforating Suburban Infrastructures: Informal Religious Meeting Places in Melbourne Lobo, Michele 2020, Recomposing Aesthetic Anxiety and Perforating Suburban Infrastructures: Informal Religious Meeting Places in Melbourne, Fabrications, vol. 30, no. 2, pp. 202-216, doi: 10.1080/10331867.2020.1749221. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title Recomposing Aesthetic Anxiety and Perforating Suburban Infrastructures: Informal Religious Meeting Places in Melbourne Author(s) Lobo, Michele orcid.org/0000-0001-7733-666X Journal name Fabrications Volume number 30 Issue number 2 Start page 202 End page 216 Total pages 15 Publisher Taylor & Francis Place of publication Abingdon, Eng. Publication date 2020-08-04 ISSN 1033-1867 2164-4756 Keyword(s) Arts & Humanities Architecture SYDNEY Summary A permit for a Buddhist place of worship in suburban Melbourne was rejected by the local Planning Committee. The application by the Mirror of the Dhamma Society to hold small religious gatherings in a semi-detached single storey house in an area zoned General Residential was deemed inappropriate. The paper focuses on this event that circulated contagious global white affects of anxiety and fear in response to potential changes in the Australian suburban infrastructure. What escaped scrutiny, however, was state-sanctioned aesthetic judgements of appropriate suburban infrastructures that were underpinned by invisible but dominant social and cultural norms. This paper calls for undoing these norms, recomposing white affects, and remaking Australian suburbia in ways that veer away from stigmatising or exoticizing material expressions of cultural diversity in the built landscape. Responding to Felix Guattari’s call for a new aesthetic paradigm with ethico-political implications, I explore the possibilities for new suburban ecologies that transcend the secular/sacred binary. The paper is written from my shifting positionality as a first-generation migrant woman and Australian of Indian heritage who arrived in Melbourne 19 years ago. It is informed by my broad research agenda on everyday multiculturalism, grounded religiosity, and belonging in cities with white majority cultures. Language eng DOI 10.1080/10331867.2020.1749221 Indigenous content off Field of Research 1201 Architecture 1901 Art Theory and Criticism 2202 History and Philosophy of Specific Fields HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal Copyright notice ©2020, The Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand Free to Read? No Free to Read Start Date 2022-02-05 Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30140986 Document type: Journal Article Collections: Faculty of Arts and Education School of Humanities and Social Sciences Related Links Link Description Connect to published version (restricted access) Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Thu, 20 Aug 2020, 11:03:51 EST Thu, 20 Aug 2020, 11:05:13 EST Fri, 21 Aug 2020, 05:01:05 EST Fri, 21 Aug 2020, 06:04:01 EST Tue, 08 Sep 2020, 11:20:31 EST Tue, 08 Sep 2020, 11:25:05 EST Tue, 08 Sep 2020, 11:29:12 EST Tue, 08 Sep 2020, 11:29:58 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 0 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 175 Abstract Views, 2 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Thu, 20 Aug 2020, 11:05:13 EST

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