596 research outputs found
Introduction to a research agenda for digital geographies
No full textFraming the edited volume A Research Agenda for Digital Geographies, this chapter explores the state of play for digital geographies and suggests future research agendas digital geographers can move into. This collection pushes the ongoing ideas in digital geographies further by grounding abstract ideas into case studies of how the digital manifests, shapes and is reshaped by the world around us. The chapter explores the four key topics of the book: digital margins, digital spacemaking, digital methodologies, and digital infrastructures and technologies. The contributions made by emerging and established digital geographers whose work collectively advances theoretical, methodological, and ethical realms in understanding the digital. The volume is another step in the evolution and progression of digital geographies, which will continue to be critically engaged with the role played the digital plays in our societies
The journey is my home
No full textA creative writing thesis consisting of three interrelated essays.M.A.Reckoning -- The rifleman -- Yet another road trip storyby Tess Schaufle
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
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
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
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
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
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