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Social relations and spatiality in VR - Making spaces meaningful in VRChat Emotion, Space and Society (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-09-05 Michal Rzeszewski, Leighton Evans
Virtual environments of social VR platforms offer a unique space for social interaction. They can be seen as socio-technological assemblages that foster immersion, embodiment, and presence, which come together as a framework that allows VR users to make space meaningful – thus creating places. This research aimed to understand how using social VR mediates social practices and the spatial practices
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Goodbye Yellow Brick Road: Nostalgia and mobility perceptions of informal dementia carers Emotion, Space and Society (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-08-19 Thomas A. Lowe
Worldwide, there is an increased prevalence of dementia and consequently informal dementia carers. Given the everyday responsibilities of informal dementia caring, the mobility of the informal carer is inextricably connected to the mobility of the one they care for. The mobility changes associated with informal dementia caring may foster feelings of nostalgia for past mobility, which may play a role
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Feeling and interpreting the changing streetscape: Capturing experiences of urban atmospheres in Cuba street, Wellington Emotion, Space and Society (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-08-02 Andreas Wesener
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Loneliness shaping young adults’ sense of home during the Covid-19 pandemic in Finland Emotion, Space and Society (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-11 Katariina Kotila
This article examines how loneliness intertwines with young adults' (aged 20–35) sense of home during the Covid-19 pandemic, when lockdowns and restrictions altered the role of home in everyday life. Drawing from data gathered through an online questionnaire, I explore how loneliness has or has not shaped young adults' understandings of and attachments to their home during the pandemic. My focus is
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Attention wars, psychopower and platform environments: An autoethnographic study on BeReal Emotion, Space and Society (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-06-27 Joan Rovira Martorell, Francisco Tirado, Ana Gálvez
The last two decades have seen an attention war play out between digital platforms, with social media as the main battleground. This has led to the development of techniques such as the hook model to capture users' attention and subconsciously direct their behaviour towards private ends. Bernard Stiegler has called this new form of governance “psychopower”. Drawing on autoethnographic research, this
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Luso-brazilian emotional geographies Emotion, Space and Society (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-06-27 Daniel Paiva, Marcia Alves Soares da Silva
In the last two decades, there has been a significant increase in the number of journal articles, events and research projects dedicated to the topics of emotions, affect, and spatial experiences in Brazil and Portugal. In this context, collaboration between Brazilian and Portuguese geographers is also increasing, despite the different epistemological traditions of the two geographic communities. With
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Karsty and miserable: Dark humor in the subsurface geopoetics of caving Emotion, Space and Society (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-06-14 Kai Bosworth
Geographic accounts of caving have critiqued the propensity of affects and practices which reinforce EuroAmerican coloniality and hubris, while also finding alternative paths of intimacy and lively relationality. Yet subsurface geographies can also reinforce cliched spatial and moral topographies. This article reflects on the production of an ambivalent affect of “dark humor” in caves, through caver
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“Wow. What's going on?” Emotional geographies of international student mobility to the UK in a time of crisis Emotion, Space and Society (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-12 Jihyun Lee, Johanna Waters
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Towards mindful geographies Emotion, Space and Society (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-10 Chloe Asker
This paper proposes a mindful geography, in which mindfulness is understood as a research praxis and an alternative way to inhabit academia. Mindful geographies offer a resistance to ways the neoliberal university (and the discipline of geography) impacts the minds and bodies of those marginalised by this system. Firstly, to provide context to my argument, I situate myself within the literature pertaining
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Creating tears in the fabric of whiteness Emotion, Space and Society (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Scott M. Schönfeldt-Aultman, Marlon C. Mendieta
This dialogic piece highlights how whiteness shapes the social ecology of different spaces and how positions change depending on space or the people in that space. Employing a methodology rooted in spatial experiences via participant observation and reflective dialogue about those experiences, we suggest that the complexities of whiteness, of masculinities, and of identities mean that there are fissures
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Collective writing as survival tool: Mechanisms of reflexivity against neoliberal academia Emotion, Space and Society (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Simon Campbell, Elisa Floristán Millán, Otto Wolf, Rich Thornton, Sara Riva
This paper introduces an innovative method for enhanced researcher reflexivity: the use of synchronous collective writing as a space to collaboratively reflect on experiences of subjectification within the contemporary academy. We explore how, despite its apparent importance to contemporary research, the neoliberalisation of academia leaves little room for meaningful reflexivity. The authors in this
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Shifting consciousness: Challenges to ontological assumptions in feminist research Emotion, Space and Society (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-24 Angela Wilcock
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Moving to find home: Emotion, imagination, and onward migration in the Iranian diaspora Emotion, Space and Society (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-24 Melissa Kelly
Recent years have seen a growing number of studies on onward migration and specifically the motivations international migrants may have for leaving their first country of settlement. Many of these studies argue that onward migration occurs as migrants pursue opportunities to study, work and reunite with family members in different places. So far little research has been undertaken to understand how
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The course of love in the migration process: Germans in Israel, and Israelis in Germany Emotion, Space and Society (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Dani Kranz
Love, to a significant other, can be the motivation for migration, inform a migration trajectory, or provide reasons for remaining in situ. Even so, love remains in the undercurrents of migration research. It is not explicitly addressed, even though it underpins migration within the constellation of arranged marriage, or if the pursuit of love is limited by social structures, or law. This paper links
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Leisure mobility: Situating emotional geographies of friluftsliv in urban mobility transitions Emotion, Space and Society (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Helene S. Tråsavik, Morten R. Loe, Katrina King, Siddharth Sareen
In Norwegian culture, outdoor recreation in nature – such as hiking – is an important activity tied to the production of identity and aspirations of a ‘good life’. ‘Friluftsliv’ (outdoor life) in Norwegian entails a connection to specific places and particular forms of movement between and within these places. This paper examines such mobility practices among residents of Stavanger, a mid-sized coastal
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Bordering cinematic experiences: Emotional narratives in the Irish borderland Emotion, Space and Society (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-03 Silvia Almenara-Niebla, Kevin Smets
Memory processes influence the emotional narratives that shape the meanings of borders. However, the field of border studies has traditionally neglected the extent to which ordinary people recreate borders through everyday emotional relations in spaces of social interaction and leisure. This research addresses cinema as a bordering experience in the context of Ireland. The Irish border has been marked
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Listening to place, practising relationality: Embodying six emergent protocols for collaborative relational geographies Emotion, Space and Society (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-01-28 A.M. Kanngieser, Filipa Soares, June Rubis, Corrinne T. Sullivan, Marnie Graham, Miriam Williams, Joseph Palis, Lauren Tynan, Lara Daley, Fabri Blacklock, Beth Greenhough, Sandie Suchet-Pearson, Sarah Wright, Kate Lloyd, Uncle Bud Marshall
There is increasing interest within geography around the composition and interdependence of human and environmental dynamics and relational onto-epistemologies. Such interest prompts us to consider questions around respect, power and collaboration, and how we might enact relations across sometimes vast and incommensurable differences as academics and as/with community members. In this paper, we document
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Embodied place in disembodied space: The emotional geography of online classrooms Emotion, Space and Society (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2023-12-21 Elizabeth Finlayson Harris, Erin Feinauer Whiting
While many institutions in recent years have worked to adapt classes to online settings, little attention has been given to the interplay of affect and emotion in online classrooms. This study uses a microethnographic approach to observe two online multicultural education courses over a 7-week term to explore the normative and socially organized practices of affect and emotion. We emphasize the ways
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Circulation of home-emotions: The critique of architecture through reality TV Emotion, Space and Society (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Jan Smitheram, Akari Nakai Kidd
This paper reveals how a popular UK reality TV programme mobilises emotions to challenge conceptualisations of architecture while simultaneously reinforcing regressive ideas of race, class and sexuality. Drawing on our thematic analysis of fourteen episodes of , the paper shows how architectural entertainment is uniquely positioned through the use of VR technology, to generate and mobilise client emotions
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Navigating the emotion-embodiment-language nexus in international research: Stories from a foreign researcher and local interpreter Emotion, Space and Society (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2023-11-24 Josie Wittmer, Mubina Qureshi
Feminist researchers engage reflexively with questions of how power operates through intersubjective processes like building rapport, obtaining consent, and being accountable in the ‘field.’ But how do researchers build these connections across embodied and linguistic differences in interlingual research involving local interpretation? In this paper, we delve into our experiences as a foreign researcher
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The illusory infrastructure of ink: Machinic bodies and epidermic affects in Singapore Emotion, Space and Society (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2023-11-23 Orlando Woods
This paper advances recent theorisations of the body-as-infrastructure by exploring the premise that there are multiple bodily infrastructures at play at any one time. It focusses on three infrastructural formations – the body, the skin that encases the body, and tattoos as visual inscriptions on the skin – that jostle against each other for representational primacy. The layering of infrastructure
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Techno-visual enchantments and an ethics of mattering Emotion, Space and Society (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Elaine Campbell
This paper makes a theoretical contribution to the socio-cultural geographies of enchantment, and introduces a mode of analysis which grapples with enchanted life as performative enfoldings of matter and meaning which have politico-ethical form, content, communicability, and power. The paper critically interrogates current theorisations of enchantment to expose the ontological, epistemological and
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Libraries as felt spaces: Atmospheres, public space and feelings of dis/comfort Emotion, Space and Society (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2023-10-29 Melike Peterson
This paper contributes to debates on urban atmospheres by delving into the atmospheric and emotional qualities of public libraries, highlighting the importance of their atmospheric dimensions as micro urban spaces in shaping city life. Geographic research into public libraries is growing, stressing their importance as key spaces of sociality in fragmented cities. However, less is known regarding their
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Albanian immigrant beliefs about emotion, language, and social identity: Examining the workplace nuances of upward social mobility Emotion, Space and Society (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2023-10-20 Heriberto Godina, Oliana Alikaj-Fierro
The present study seeks to advance scientific discussion about language, emotion, and migration through two in-depth portrayals of adult Albanian immigrants who self-reported personal beliefs about emotions in their language usage, social identity, and motivation for workplace success. Data-collection implemented a qualitative case-study approach with multiple interviews and observations. Participants
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Racism (un)spoken: Exclusion and discrimination in emotional narrations of young migrants in Berlin Emotion, Space and Society (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2023-10-21 Magdalena Nowicka, Katarzyna Wojnicka
Racism operates though material discrimination and through emotions. Racialised subjects feel their location in hierarchical social space, and spatial arrangements can facilitate racial perceptual segregation. The first aim of this article is to discuss which emotions are involved in young people's narrations about their experiences and exposure to racism in Berlin, Germany. Second, it engages with
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Atmosphere and inspiration in the Soviet Gulag Emotion, Space and Society (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2023-10-14 Jeffrey Stepnisky
In this essay I use Peter Sloterdijk's and Gernot Böhme's theories of atmosphere to describe the production of atmospheres in the Soviet Gulag. I rely on eight memoirs written by Gulag prisoners. I develop the idea that atmospheres are formed out of co-inspirational practices between persons and the objects in their world. The Gulag is an extreme social situation in which these inspirational practices
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More-than-human practices of making and unmaking the smart home: A socioemotional investigation Emotion, Space and Society (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2023-10-04 Chen Liu
This article examines the complex and dynamic practices in the smart home and how these practices are socially and emotionally engaged in daily encounters with different human and non-human actors, drawing on a 14-month autoethnography. Based on the investigation of my own experiences of setting up, using and getting rid of smart home technologies, this article develops a more-than-human understanding
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Introducing a more-than-quantitative approach to explore emerging structures of feeling in the everyday Emotion, Space and Society (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2023-08-31 Katy Bennett, Stefano De Sabbata
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“We always remember the Island”: Puerto Rican climate migrants’ emotional meanings of home Emotion, Space and Society (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2023-08-25 Rebecca Blackwell, Elizabeth Aranda, Alessandra Rosa
To contribute to the development of a sociology of home, in this article, we integrate migration, emotion, and place and space theories to study how the notion of home interacts with the experience of displacement. Through 54 in-depth semi-structured interviews with Puerto Rican climate migrants who fled Puerto Rico for the continental US after Hurricane Maria struck the archipelago in 2017, we asked
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“It can be very easy to feel uncomfortable”: Socio-spatial constructions of campus safety among university students and administrators Emotion, Space and Society (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2023-08-24 Treena Orchard
Research about campus safety focuses primarily on identifying problematic student behaviours (i.e., toxic partying, sexual violence) and institutional infrastructure (i.e., lighting, emergency services), to the exclusion of how safety, as an idea and embodied experience, is constructed. Using qualitive interview data from a participatory action research study conducted at Western University, this article
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Affective entrainment: Generating and incorporating the “rollercoaster” experience of a group yoga class Emotion, Space and Society (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2023-08-24 Alexandra Brown
This article investigates the cultivation and incorporation of transpersonal affect through an analysis of classes at an Amsterdam yoga studio. With their combination of aerobic exercises, heightened atmosphere, and teachings of self-transformation, Tattva Yoga classes are renowned as a “rollercoaster” experience. This article analyses a single Tattva Yoga class, delineating how the rollercoaster arises
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Making the football stadium homely: Manchester City's relocation from Maine road to the Etihad Emotion, Space and Society (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2023-08-26 Tim Edensor, Steve Millington, Chloe Steadman
Much geographical literature concerning home focuses on its emotional potency. This paper explores how football supporters consider their club's stadium as a ‘home’. However, this sense of homeliness can evaporate when clubs relocate to new stadia, rupturing matchday routines and feelings of belonging. This is exemplified by the relocation of Manchester City Football Club from their former home ground
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“The forests are dirty”: Effects of climate and social change on landscape and well-being in the Italian Alps Emotion, Space and Society (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2023-08-23 Sarah H. Whitaker
Over the course of the last several decades, climate and social changes have fundamentally altered Alpine environments, landscapes, and weather patterns. While environmental changes are well-documented by natural science studies, the human dimensions of change remain understudied. Existing in-depth studies of the impact of climate and environmental changes on emotional well-being have revealed cross-cultural
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The Alienated Subject: On the Capacity to Hurt, James A. Tyner, University Of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis (2022), viii and 260 pp., notes and index. $112 cloth, ISBN: 978-1-4529-6732-5 Emotion, Space and Society (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2023-08-04 Hang Wei
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Spectacle and Trumpism: An Embodied Assemblage Approach, Jacob C. Miller, Bristol University Press, Bristol (2020), v and 135 pp., index. £42.99 cloth, ISBN: 978-1529212501 Emotion, Space and Society (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2023-08-02 Silvia Binenti
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Affective geographies in pandemic times: An intersectional analysis of women's wellbeing in Aotearoa New Zealand Emotion, Space and Society (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2023-07-28 Holly Thorpe, Julie Brice, Grace O'Leary, Anoosh Soltani, Mihi Nemani, Nikki Barrett
This article builds upon and extends a growing body of literature focused on how the pandemic has shifted human relations with space, place, and wellbeing. Working at the intersection of pandemic and feminist geographies, we focus on how the reconceptualizing of familiar spaces and places during the COVID-19 pandemic impacted women's embodied, affective, and subjective experiences of wellbeing. Drawing
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A transnational family story: A narrative inquiry on the emotional and intergenerational notions of ‘home’ Emotion, Space and Society (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2023-07-26 Melissa del Carmen Ernstberger, Stephen Adaawen
At the core of migratory experiences lie key questions pertaining to one's emotional changing Self: the complexity of conflicting identities, feelings of (un)belonging, varying degrees of emotional place (un)attachment, and the fundamental (re)conceptualizations of ‘home’. Though well-studied from various angles, ‘home’ as an emotional concept in the context of generational family migration research
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The F word: The experiential construction of flooding in England Emotion, Space and Society (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2023-07-25 P. Mehring, H. Geoghegan, H.L. Cloke, J.M. Clark
In England, flood risk management policy constructs flooding through its physical impacts. Whilst research is starting to reveal the mental health impacts of flooding, it stops short of understanding the experience of being flooded and what this means in terms of understanding the F-word, flooding. Yet for flood communities, the emotional impacts of flooding can prevail for years, if not a lifetime
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Precarious Lives: Forced Labour, exploitation and asylum, Hannah Lewis, Peter Dwyer, Stuart Hodkinson, Louis Waite, Policy Press, University of Bristol, UK (2015), p. 221, ISBN: 978 1 44730 690 0 Emotion, Space and Society (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2023-07-23 Brian Maregedze
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Recollecting the everyday: Emotion, memory and spaces of mundane practice Emotion, Space and Society (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2023-07-17
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“Use your common sense to navigate, and you're gonna get along okay”: Exploring the sensorial politics of attunement, survival, and resistance in Canadian federal prisons Emotion, Space and Society (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2023-07-06 Sophie Lachapelle, Jennifer M. Kilty
What does prison feel like? This question has generated a theoretically and epistemologically innovative body of literature known as sensory criminology. However, due to the bureaucratic barriers that researchers experience in trying to access prison spaces and incarcerated people, much of this literature is written about/from the privileged experiences of prison ethnographers, undoubtedly missing
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Building monuments, unleashing anger: The material disruption of contested memoryscapes Emotion, Space and Society (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2023-07-01 Maida Kosatica
This paper explores the post-war memoryscapes in Bosnia-Herzegovina via (defaced and destroyed) monuments evidencing the habitual struggle to disrupt and reorder space, and reinterpret the traumatic past. Analysing a combination of digital and fieldwork data, I make a case for interpreting attacks on monuments as a civilian retaliatory agency, exerting spatial hegemony and substantiating resentful
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How We Became Sensorimotor: Movement, Measurement, Sensation, Mark Paterson, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, MN (2021), 1 and 268 pp., index. $28.00 paperback, ISBN: 978-1-5179-1000-6 Emotion, Space and Society (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2023-05-19 Jessy Williams
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Video playback, affective witnessing, and the mobility of trauma: Video evidence of violent crime in the criminal justice system Emotion, Space and Society (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2023-04-13 Arija Birze, Cheryl Regehr, Kaitlyn Regehr
In today's technologically mediated society, video is increasingly relied upon as an objective and reliable source of evidence in the investigation and prosecution of violent crimes. The now pervasive presence of violent video in the criminal justice system, however, presents new challenges for understanding repeated work-related exposure to and witnessing of potentially traumatic material and its
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Migration, gender, and emotions. A reflection on global care chains and circuits of care in the context of migration from Bolivia to Argentina Emotion, Space and Society (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2023-04-01 Guadalupe Blanco Rodríguez, Stefania Cardonetti, Carina Alejandra Cassanello
The intersection between the history of emotions and migration studies highlights how motherhood and care practices are transformed during migration. In this article, through the example of Bolivian migration to Argentina, we shed light on diverse emotional experiences around care work that cannot be understood if we analyze them through the classic approaches of global care chains and the circulation
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‘A philosophy of change’: Emotions, civil society and global development Emotion, Space and Society (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2023-03-17 Sarah Peck
Dominant paradigms of global development have historically been devoid of emotions, connected with racialized and gendered ideas of rationality and civility. Within contemporary scholarship there is however increasing recognition of the importance of emotions for understanding development processes. This paper adds to this body of work by exploring the ways that emotions shape how people who are trying
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Loneliness and belonging in narrative environments Emotion, Space and Society (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2023-02-10 Richard Vytniorgu, Fred Cooper, Charlotte Jones, Manuela Barreto
Loneliness and belonging are often framed as psychological states affecting individuals. Their family, friendship, psychological mindset, and acquaintance networks are seen as important factors shaping experiences of loneliness and belonging, but the role of place, culture, and institutional environments are often relegated to the periphery of attention. This article adopts the lens of narrative environment
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“When I say I'm depressed, it's like anger.” An exploration of the emotional landscape of climate change concern in Norway and its psychological, social and political implications Emotion, Space and Society (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2023-02-10 Michalina Marczak, Małgorzata Winkowska, Katia Chaton-Østlie, Roxanna Morote Rios, Christian A. Klöckner
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“They didn't have to build that much”: A qualitative study on the emotional response to urban change in the Montreal context Emotion, Space and Society (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2022-12-21 J. Karmann, M. Najjar, C.A. Ottoni, M. Shareck, S. Lord, M. Winters, D. Fuller, Y. Kestens
Cities are constantly changing, and the way people experience these changes shapes their future relation with urban space. While studies of urban change often seek to illuminate socio-political and economic impacts, they seldom focus on the emotional responses that people have to those changes. Yet, emotional responses are important as they condition the way we respond to change. To better understand
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Exploring the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on people's relationships with gardens Emotion, Space and Society (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2022-12-22 Thea Gordon-Rawlings, Alessio Russo
Gardens are places where science and art combine to create environments that often offer restorative and therapeutic experience to those who encounter them. During the Covid-19 pandemic, in the UK and elsewhere there has been a surge of interest in gardening. Public appreciation of gardens and other green spaces has grown and inequality of access to gardens and outdoor spaces has been extensively documented
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Ocean deathscapes – The placement and contestation of vernacular memorials on the Australian coastline Emotion, Space and Society (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2022-11-24 Mardi Frost
This paper explores unauthorised vernacular memorial markers in two case study locations on the Australian coastline. The first site is the rock headland at Burleigh Heads, situated on the Gold Coast, Queensland. The second is the rock breakwater at the ocean entrance of Evans River at Evans Head, on the North Coast of New South Wales. Plaques, painted text, and memorial objects have been placed upon
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In harmony or out of tune: Affective and emotional geographies of all-male choirs in London, UK Emotion, Space and Society (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2022-11-09 Emily Falconer
This article examines the growing popularity of weekly amateur choral singing for adult men, with a specific focus in London, UK. This paper moves away from discourses of social health and wellbeing to bring together critical studies of masculinity with emotional geographies of sound, to better understand the links between choirs as an affective space and the complex, symbolic relationship between
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A life without a plan? Freelance musicians in pandemic limbo Emotion, Space and Society (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2022-10-11 Anna Nørholm Lundin
The Covid-19 pandemic has exacerbated the already precarious conditions of freelance workers. The aim of this study is to understand what it means for freelance musicians to be in pandemic limbo. Thirteen Swedish professional freelance musicians in the classical genre were interviewed about their experiences in the midst of the pandemic. A theoretical frame of reference is offered with concepts from
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Queer affordances of care in suburban public libraries Emotion, Space and Society (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2022-09-23 Alison L. Bain
Public libraries are more than the materiality of their built form and collections. Within ever-widening mandates to enhance social inclusion and citizen emotional and physical well-being through micro-political practices of care, this paper addresses the resourceful community resilience that insider activist and ally librarians may foster for LGBTQ + suburbanites. Turning its attention to Canadian