4,149 research outputs found
Data for 'Developing a Citizen Social Science approach to understand urban stress and promote wellbeing in urban communities'
No full textSummary data for 31 participants of the 'Affective capture' project on the topic of urban stress, including World Health Organisation-Quality of Life-BREF and Perceived Stress Scale survey, biodata, participant diary, and researcher commentary on qualitative interviews
Book review: Revolutionary routines: the habits of social transformation by Carolyn Pedwell
No full textIn Revolutionary Routines: The Habits of Social Transformation, Carolyn Pedwell examines how social change can be enacted through everyday habits and routinised practices, arguing that such ‘minor’ gestures may be just as transformative as major events. This exploration of the conditions of political possibility is an important endeavour, write Alice Menzel and Jessica Pykett, and will be of particular interest to those concerned with social justice. Revolutionary Routines: The Habits of Social Transformation. Carolyn Pedwell. McGill-Queen’s University Press. 2021
Governing Global Emotions:Technology and The New Science of Feeling
No full textData from facial emotion recognition, brain-computer interfaces, virtual reality, global emotion surveys and sentiment analysis offer an extraordinary new terrain for scientific exploration. Emotion sensing promises to decode and even to augment and control the very essence of human experience. But what if the science and technology of emotion measurement get emotions wrong? In Governing Global Emotions, Jessica Pykett argues that we must shift our thinking on digital emotional governance and calls for a radical reassessment of the fundamental claims of emotion science.Pykett offers a groundbreaking account of how emotions are defined, used and governed through emerging digital technologies, arguing that emotions, senses and feelings have become a crucial new arena for political, economic and cultural struggles. She describes how technologies create emotional data, how smart cities use sensors to monitor residents’ feelings and how global economies measure happiness. Drawing on twenty years of interdisciplinary social science, Pykett documents how emotion science continues to delve deeper, as researchers look for evolutionary continuity, biological certainty and neuroscientific consensus. What she finds instead is a divided field vulnerable to significant criticism. Pykett concludes that standardised, universal and instrumentalised scientific accounts of emotions are machinic, and when divorced from context, they can never be global
Governing Global Emotions:Technology and The New Science of Feeling
No full textData from facial emotion recognition, brain-computer interfaces, virtual reality, global emotion surveys and sentiment analysis offer an extraordinary new terrain for scientific exploration. Emotion sensing promises to decode and even to augment and control the very essence of human experience. But what if the science and technology of emotion measurement get emotions wrong? In Governing Global Emotions, Jessica Pykett argues that we must shift our thinking on digital emotional governance and calls for a radical reassessment of the fundamental claims of emotion science.Pykett offers a groundbreaking account of how emotions are defined, used and governed through emerging digital technologies, arguing that emotions, senses and feelings have become a crucial new arena for political, economic and cultural struggles. She describes how technologies create emotional data, how smart cities use sensors to monitor residents’ feelings and how global economies measure happiness. Drawing on twenty years of interdisciplinary social science, Pykett documents how emotion science continues to delve deeper, as researchers look for evolutionary continuity, biological certainty and neuroscientific consensus. What she finds instead is a divided field vulnerable to significant criticism. Pykett concludes that standardised, universal and instrumentalised scientific accounts of emotions are machinic, and when divorced from context, they can never be global
Learning to be global citizens: the rationalities of fair-trade education
No full textThe ethics of everyday consumption has become a key concern for social and environmental justice campaigning by NGOs in the United Kingdom. Schools are a prominent site for such campaigns, where, alongside other 'controversial issues' and initiatives such as citizenship education, the problematisation of consumption practices has developed its own distinctive set of pedagogical devices. This paper questions the analytical framing of education as a space of neoliberal subjectification, in which 'critical pedagogy' is seen as the only legitimate form of resistance within theoretical models of domination - subordination and governmentality. The institutionalisation of fair trade education in schools in Bristol, a city in the southwest of England, is presented as an empirical case through which to consider how best to theorise the rationalities of consumption-oriented campaigning by NGOs. We discuss the consequences of problematising global responsibility where learnign is seen as a performative encounter between reflexive actors situated in particular sociocultural environments
Sustainable threads. Using immersive narratives to teach about the climate, wellbeing and social impacts of fast fashion
Full text linkIn this article Dr Verity Jones, Associate Professor in Education at the University of the West of England, Ruth Millett, Learning and Engagement Officer at Thinktank, Birmingham Science Museum, which is run by Birmingham Museums Trust, and Dr Jessica Pykett, Associate Professor in Human Geography at the University of Birmingham introduce a new collection of lesson plans for Key Stages 2 and 3 geography teaching on sustainable fashion and climate crisis. They reflect on why schools need to teach about fast fashion, and how to support teachers in light of current concerns about children’s eco-anxiety. They discuss how teaching through immersive narratives provides a fresh approach to learning about the connections between clothing as an essential part of everyday life, global environmental change and climate justice
“Shaping policy makers’ emotional engagements with behaviour change”
No full text‘Behaviour change’ has become something of a policy panacea across a range of social policy sectors worldwide. There is of course nothing new about the shaping of citizenly conduct. Sophisticated tools of persuasion and more blunt tools of compulsion have long been deployed by state authorities and non-state actors alike. But since at least the mid-2000s, concerted efforts have been made by several national governments to better understand the psychological parameters of decision-making contexts and ingrained human biases. The chapter focuses on participatory action research which the authors undertook with a group of Welsh Government civil servants in Cardiff and Aberystwyth in 2014. This was part of a larger research project on ‘Negotiating Neuroliberalism’ within policy contexts, which has examined the human subject is being re-conceptualised as vulnerable to cognitive biases, mental shortcuts and irrationality – and thus amenable to a wide range of hitherto untested behaviour change techniques
Emotional States: sites and spaces of affective governance
Full text linkWhat is the political allure, value and currency of emotions within contemporary cultures of governance? What does it mean to govern more humanely? Since the emergence of an emotional turn in human geography over the last decade, the notion that our emotions matter in understanding an array of social practices, spatial formations and aspects of everyday life is no longer seen as controversial. This book brings recent developments in emotional geography into dialogue with social policy concerns and contemporary issues of governance. It sets the intellectual scene for research into the geographical dimensions of the emotionalized states of the citizen, policy maker and public service worker, and highlights new research on the emotional forms of governance which now characterise public lif
A Conversation with Jessica B. Harris
No full textA conversation with culinary historian and award-winning author Jessica B. Harris, moderated by Gabrielle Fulton Ponder
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