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Stuck here: boredom, migration, and the homeless imaginary in post-socialist Bucharest

ABSTRACT This paper traces the transnational dimensions of affect by way of boredom to open a perspective onto the scale at which homelessness is internalized and embodied. While boredom is commonly thought of in both literature and in philosophy as a predicament of slowed time marked by the absence of immediate activity, the geographical argument here is that boredom among Bucharest’s homeless is a spatial relationship whose dimensions are shaped by a cultural politics of mobility and stasis that stretches across borders. The critical contribution of this argument is to re-theorize the scale at which people feel out the condition of their historical scene, bringing into view the affective mechanics that intimately reproduce the homeless’ sense of their place not just in the city but within a global order.