ABSTRACT

This paper explores the emotions experienced by two Mexican women as a consequence of street harassment episodes while practising adventure outdoor activities. Leisure and travel often place women in unfamiliar space and places increasing their perception of vulnerability, thus reducing their participation and enjoyment, and also affecting their physical patterns as well as their emotional responses. In order to analyse affectual embodiment and its impacts in the use of public adventure space through coping strategies I rely on Ahmed’s interpretations of anger, while Jiménez-Esquina’s ‘ambivalent fluxes’ and Hall’s ‘sentient and emotional body’ contribute to explore the emotion as a ‘continuum’ of embodied practices that shed light on Wilson and Little’s ‘geography of women’s travel fear’. The analysis indicates the relevance of emotions in the construction of inclusive adventure space in a context of violence and insecurity, as well as the role of socio-cultural influence on the ‘vulnerable women’ social construct.

摘要

本文探讨了两名墨西哥妇女在进行户外冒险活动时因遭遇街头骚扰而经历的情绪。休闲和旅行常常使女性处于陌生的空间和地方，增加了她们的脆弱感，从而减少了她们的参与和享受，也影响了她们的身体模式和情绪反应。为了通过应对策略来分析情感体现及其对公共冒险空间使用的影响，我依靠艾哈迈德对愤怒的解释，而希门尼斯·埃斯奎纳的“矛盾流变”和霍尔的“感知和情绪体”有助于探索情感作为一种体现实践的“连续体”揭示了威尔逊和利特尔的“女性旅行恐惧地理”。