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Emotional geographies and work
No full textThis chapter explores the emotional geographies of work through the different binaries underpinning how work shapes scales and spatialities. We explore how emotions blur and smudge the boundaries between care and wage work, femininities and masculinities, and the public/private nexus. We examine how these relations yield complex emotional geographies that bridge many spaces and places – from the home, to offices and shops, to institutions and remote working forms. Drawing on examples from women in academia, (migrant) precarious labour, and formal/informal forms of home labour, we argue for the necessity of centring emotions as part of the jagged edges of care-wage and work-home communities. We show how emotions are used as forms of control, as well as how they offer avenues for resistance. We conclude by exploring future directions for the emotional geographies of work, calling for more attention to the collective experience, building on connectivity between places and how emotions facilitate flows between different spatialities, as well as calling for further exploration of the use of emotions in dominant power structures
Emotional geographies of climate change and disasters
No full textThis chapter reviews research on the emotional dimensions of climate change and disasters. Following some initial reflections on the disciplinarity of this scholarship and a taxonomy of climate emotions, we examine three areas of scholarship on climate emotions: grief, loss and mourning; anxiety, worry and fear; and the link between climate emotions and climate action. We then consider the disaster emotions literature, discussing work on displacement and disrupted place attachments, grief and loss, the gendered and unevenly distributed nature of disaster emotions, temporality, and mediatisation. Unsurprisingly, there are some commonalities with respect to the emotions people experience in relation to both climate change and disasters. As well as grief, loss, anxiety and fear, there is an increasing trend towards hopefulness, which provides support for grounded actions for the common good
Developing emotional geographies:grounding theory and practice in feeling
No full textEmotional geographies examine how feelings shape, and are shaped by, space, place and power. Drawing on humanistic, feminist and non-representational traditions, this chapter explores how emotions are central to geographical research and knowledge production. It traces the development of emotional geography through key methodological innovations and turns that have prioritised emotion as both subject and mode of research. Emphasis is placed on reflexivity, ethics of care and decolonial approaches, positioning emotions as relational and politically charged. Central to emotional geography is a commitment to attentive, responsible, and situated methodologies that respond to the emotional complexity of the world. In the chapter we highlight how emotional geography challenges dominant scientific norms by valuing lived experience, affective knowledge, and inclusive research practices. With growing interest in qualitative, creative and digital methods across the social sciences and humanities, we show how emotional geography offers powerful tools for exploring emotional worlds. This agenda-setting chapter positions emotional geographies at the forefront of methodological innovation and ethical research design, making it a key resource for scholars working across interdisciplinary fields, including human geography, sociology, anthropology and digital humanities
Bodies and emotions
No full textThis chapter details how geographers have explored bodies and emotions, with a particular focus on scholarship in emotional geographies. We discuss five characteristics of this scholarship, namely that it attends to the gendered body, the body's fleshy materiality, the body in relation to systems and structures of power, what embodied emotions illuminate about the contexts in which they arise, and the development of novel methods to research embodied emotion. As geographical research on care exemplifies many of these characteristics, it is discussed for illustrative purposes. Four potential areas for future research are then outlined: the technologically augmented body, the circulation of affect through collective bodies, the ongoing development of novel research methods, and the continuing need to advocate for the value of research on bodies and emotion, within and beyond the social sciences
Emotional geographies and migration:memory and movement
No full textThis chapter draws in and on the wealth of scholarship on mobility and movement, in what has been termed an ‘age of migration’. With every migration/refugee ‘crisis’, questions arise about how and where migrants settle, integrate and encounter intolerance, and how place-based contingencies matter in that settlement and integration. Whether these migrations are forced or voluntary, understanding migration as a process, and one fraught with and wrapped up in a multitude of emotions and emotional encounters, is a crucial and timely intervention in this research agenda. In this chapter, we draw focus on how the emotional geographies of migration articulate in everyday settings, by homing in on the practices and contexts of migration as already experienced and felt by migrants
Moving forward with empathy
No full textThis concluding chapter sets out a research agenda for emotional geographies in a period of global disruption – war, climate crisis, AI and political instability. We reaffirm that emotions are central to how we understand and act in the world, shaping both knowledge and power. We highlight care, positionality and collective practice as key themes permeating across the monograph. By employing the lexicographic play on words – afterwor(l)ds – we reflect on the emotional labour of academic work and the value of collaborative scholarship, especially in unsettled times, by returning to the use of vignettes. The chapter calls for research that is empathetic while remaining critical and attentive to context, difference and power. In moving forward with empathy, we advocate that emotional geography can play a pivotal role in navigating contemporary change, with an ethics of care that foregrounds emotion as part of how research is done, not just what it studies
Digitising emotional geographies:technologies and techno-futures
No full textThis chapter explores how digital technologies shape and reshape how we feel, connect and understand emotions across space. It brings emotional geography into conversation with digital platforms, tools and methods, ranging from social media, Apps and digital visualisations to biosensing and AI, to examine how these technologies mediate emotional experience. While digital tools open fresh ways to trace affective patterns, they also raise challenges around representation, ethics and power. Drawing on various methodological examples, in the chapter we show how digital methods can extend and enrich emotional geography research, while also demanding critical engagement with how emotion is captured, categorised and understood. We argue for a mixed-methods approach that keeps focus on emotions as subjective, relational and situated, even as research scales up through automated and algorithmic tools. In doing so, we outline a research agenda for digital emotional geography that recognises the need for collaboration across disciplines and reflects carefully on digital technologies’ emotional and political lives
Emotional geographies thus far:politics, performativity, movement and technology
No full textEmotions, and their intersections in the spaces and places of our everyday lives, matter, especially because these emotions very often provide us with reminders of the past, mediate our present and shape the future. This research agenda continues the now consistent conceptual and method-based engagement of emotional geographies, discussing how and why emotions matter, while also providing a forum for multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary debate on theoretically informed research on the emotional intersections between people and place. These objectives are broadly conceived and seek to encourage investigations of feelings, encounter and affect in various spatial and social contexts, environments and landscapes. This introductory chapter charts how we, as authors, have navigated creating and sustaining emotional geographies through writing collaboratively and with close cognisance of our own positions. We identify four key opening themes – emotion(al) politics, emotions and performativity, emotions and movement, and emotion(al) technologies – that we think both showcase the intersections of emotional geographies to everyday life and cognate scholarship, but which also permeate through the following chapters too
The significance of memory in the present
No full textMemory is a powerful tool. It invokes the senses: a smell, a familiar touch, an image, a sound once heard before can transport us not only to different times but also to different places (see Tuan 1977). With each memory stimulus we conjure the context of those places, whether they be spatially defined and geographically delimited or immaterial, allegorical places- we situate our memories to place and to time. Memory can connect us to our individual pasts and to the past (as we know it) of those of our closest kin, and does so through the narration of family histories. These connections can be facilitated by sharing ancestral objects, passing down photographs and family names, and reciting habitual practices such as cooking, singing and speaking other languages. Place memory lies at the core of this volume, as illustrated by contributions that acknowledge how deeply this kind of memory is enmeshed in everyday corporeality through 'practices of incorporation' and 'practices of inscription' (Hill20 13: 381 ). These entanglements link our present-day places and contexts to our pasts and to those of our forebears. Our ability to locate memories shows how the absence of memory is 'evoked, [and] made present, in and through enfolded blendings of the visual, material, haptic, aural, olfactory, emotional-affective and spiritual' (Maddrell2013: 505). As Bell (1997: 813) has reasoned, places are 'personed ... even when there is no one there'. Extending Bell's thought to the non-human, places can also be occupied by the presence of objects, animals, thoughts and so on. Thus, we can use place in memory as a positioning tool. The focus on the spatiality of memory is the point of departure for this collection, which comprises the concomitant and geographically contextualised discussions of how these memories are positioned in place and used in the construction and maintenance of identities
Locating the embodied interconnections in performative geopolitics
No full textReview of: The Geopolitics of Memory: A Journey to Bosnia, James Riding, The Geopolitics of Memory: A Journey to Bosnia. EU: Ibidem Press, 2019; 192 pp. 9783838213118, $ 30.00 (paperback
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