Article The affirming affects of entrepreneurial redevelopment: Architecture, sport, and local food in Oklahoma City Eric Sarmiento Texas State University, USA Abstract This paper draws on assemblage thinking—especially Deleuze and Guattari’s conception of territorialization—to analyze urban redevelopment processes in Oklahoma City, a mid-sized city in the central United States that has pursued a culturally led, ‘‘entrepreneurial’’ approach to redevelopment. Focusing on the linkages between architecture, sport, and local food in the city, I demonstrate some of the ways in which these realms were woven together in support of the territorial expansion of redevelopment. Following recent research on affect in human geography, I argue that the interweaving of these realms involved careful attention to the material capacities of buildings, athletic bodies, and foods to generate a sense of excitement, pride in place, self- worth, and above all movement in the city. The paper concludes with a discussion of some of the implications of this analysis for the politics of redevelopment and some suggestions for future research. Keywords Affect, alternative food networks, architectural geography, territorialization, urban redevelopment Introduction In this paper, I offer a case study of urban redevelopment in Oklahoma City to explore some of the ways that a typical culturally led, ‘‘entrepreneurial’’ approach to redevelopment has sought to mobilize the capacities of particular urban spaces to generate and intensify positively charged, embodied affects in support of the expansion of the currently dominant redevelopment agenda and its framing of the city and its future. Drawing on assemblage thinking, and particularly Deleuze and Guattari’s conception of territorialization, I explore the linkages between architecture, sport, and local food in the city, demonstrating some of the ways in which redevelopment enrolled and choreographed Corresponding author: Eric Sarmiento, Texas State University, San Marcos, Evans Liberal Arts, Rm 362, San Marcos, TX 78666, USA. Email: Ers89@txstate.edu Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 2018, Vol. 50(2) 327–349 ! The Author(s) 2017 Reprints and permissions: sagepub.co.uk/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/0308518X17743506 journals.sagepub.com/home/epn