Research on Space & Place: Platial & Spatial Anxieties & Manias

 

  • Acrophobia: Fear of heights.
  • Aeroacrophobia, Hypsiphobia, Hypsophobia: Fear of open high places.
  • Agoraphobia: Fear of open spaces or of being in a crowded place.
  • Agromania: Love of open spaces.
  • Agyiomania: Abnormal interest in streets.
  • Agyrophobia, Agyiophobia: Fear of streets.
  • Altophobia: Fear of high places.
  • Astrophobia: Fear of celestial spaces.
  • Batophobia: Fear of high places or objects.
  • Catapedamania: Abnormal interest in jumping from high places.
  • Cenophobia, Kenophobia: Fear of empty space.
  • Claustrophobia: Fear of enclosed spaces.
  • Claustrophilia: Love of being confined in small places.
  • Cleithrophobia, Cleisiophobia, or Clithrophobia: Fear of being locked in an enclosed place.
  • Coimetrophobia: Fear of cemeteries.
  • Cremnophobia: Fear of precipices.
  • Domatophobia: Fear of houses, home.
  • Dromophobia: Fear of crossing roads
  • Dromomania: Longing to travel
  • Ecclesiophobia: Fear of church.
  • Ecdemomania: Abnormal interest in wandering.
  • Ecophobia: Fear of home surroundings.
  • Gephyrophobia: Fear of crossing a bridge.
  • Gephyromania: Abnormal interest in bridges.
  • Hadephobia: Fear of hell.
  • Hodophobia: Fear of road travel.
  • Hylophobia, xylophobia: Fear of forests.
  • Kenophobia: Fear of empty rooms.
  • Koinoniphobia: Fear of rooms.
  • Limnophobia: Fear of lakes.
  • Lygophobia: Fear of dark or gloomy places.
  • Oikophobia, Oecophobia, Ecophobia: Fear of home surroundings.
  • Oikomania: Abnormal interest in being at home.
  • Oikophilia: Attraction to one’s home (sexual)
  • Ouranophobia: Fear of heaven.
  • Poriomania: Abnormal compulsion to wander, compulsion to travel to faraway places.
  • Potamophobia: Fear of rivers.
  • Spacephobia: Fear of outer space.
  • Stenophobia: Fear of narrow places.
  • Stygiophobia: Fear of hell.
  • Thalassophobia: Fear of the ocean.
  • Topophilia: Love of place; attachment to place
  • Topophobia: Fear of certain places; fear of performing (stage fright).
  • Uranophobia: Fear of heaven.

Websites

General Bibliography

  • Bondi, Liz and Davidson, Joyce. “Troubling the Place of Gender.” in Kay Anderson, Mona Domosh, Steve Pile and Nigel Thrift (eds.) Handbook of Cultural Geography. London, Thousand Oaks and New Dehli: Sage, 2003: 325-343. 
  • Carter, Paul. Repressed Spaces: The Poetics of Agoraphobia. Consortium 2002. 
  • Davidson, Joyce. “…the World Was Getting Smaller’: Women, Agoraphobia and Bodily Boundaries.” Area 32 1 (2000): 31-40. 
  • Davidson, Joyce. “A Phenomenology of Fear: Merleau-Ponty and Agoraphobic Life-Worlds.” Sociology of Health and Illness 22:5 (2000): 640-660. See also Joan Busfield (ed.) Rethinking the Sociology of Mental Health. Oxford: Blackwells, 2001: 95-114. 
  • Davidson, Joyce. Agoraphobic Geographies: An Exploration of Subjectivity and Socio-Spatial Anxiety. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Edinborough, July 2001. 
  • Davidson, Joyce. ‘Pregnant Pauses: Agoraphobic Embodiment and the Limits of (Im)Pregnability’. Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography 8:3 (2001): 283-297. 
  • Davidson, Joyce. “Fear and Trembling in the Mall: Women, Agoraphobia and Body Boundaries.” in Isabel Dyck, Nancy Davis Lewis and Sara McLafferty (eds.) Geographies of Women’s Health. London & New York: Routledge, 2001: 213-230. 
  • Davidson, Joyce. “‘Putting on a face’: Sartre, Goffman, and agoraphobic anxiety in social space.” Environment and Planning D-Society & Space 21:1 (February 2003): 107 – 122.  
  • Davidson, Joyce and Smith, Mick. ‘Bio-phobias / Techno-philias: Virtual Reality Exposure as Treatment for Phobias of ‘Nature’’, Sociology of Health and Illness 25:6 (2003): 644–661. 
  • Davidson, Joyce. Phobic Geographies: The Phenomenology and Spatiality of Identity. Ashgate, 2003. 
  • Doherty, Claire, ed. Claustrophobia. Birmingham: Ikon Gallery, 1998. 
  • Jacobson, Kirsten. 2004. “Agoraphobia and Hypochondria as Disorders of Dwelling.” International Studies in Philosophy. 36(2): 31-44. 
  • King, Peter. “The Room to Panic: An Example of Film Criticism and Housing Research.” Housing, Theory and Society 2004 (21:1): 27–35. 
  • Vidler, Anthony. Warped Space: Art, Architecture, and Anxiety in Modern Culture. MIT Press, 2002.

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