Geraint Rhys Whittaker , Kimberley Peters , Ilse van Opzeeland
{"title":"Narrators of submersive affective atmospheres: Analysing oceanic representations through narratives of sound","authors":"Geraint Rhys Whittaker , Kimberley Peters , Ilse van Opzeeland","doi":"10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101067","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101067","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Art-science installations with a focus on marine research are a critical way that the ocean is experienced by various publics beyond the physical boundaries of the sea. Like ocean themed cinema, documentaries, music, photo exhibitions, aquariums, museums and so on they contribute to how oceans are imagined and experienced without the need to get wet. Although they can never quite replicate the ocean, they offer touching points for embodied engagement with alternative imaginaries of the sea. <em>Mirrors</em> is a sound installation that follows the acoustic journey of the Minke Whale as it travels from Antarctica to the coast of Namibia, which debuted in 2023 as part of an international marine biodiversity symposium. Drawing from the development and delivery of <em>Mirrors,</em> this paper contends that sound installations are one way that audiences can know the ocean as they uniquely capture underwater worlds and anthropogenic impacts on marine life. This paper argues that key to the success of this is being able to create narratives that can inspire oceanic imaginations through what is introduced for the first time in this paper as ‘submersive affective atmospheres’.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47492,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Space and Society","volume":"55 ","pages":"Article 101067"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143526582","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rachael Hood , Martina Angela Caretta , Christina Digiulio , Lora Snyder
{"title":"Disrupted place attachments and emotional energy geography in fracked Appalachia","authors":"Rachael Hood , Martina Angela Caretta , Christina Digiulio , Lora Snyder","doi":"10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101065","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101065","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>To date, there has been limited analysis at the intersection of extractive industry and emotional geography. Our research addresses this intersection by investigating how gas extraction, production, and distribution have disrupted residents’ place attachment, and how this disruption is emotionally embodied. This research relies on 24 interviews and 2 workshops conducted in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia in the summer of 2021. This tri-state region, sitting on the Marcellus shale, has witnessed a significant industrial buildout in the form of pipelines and hydraulic fracturing in the last fifteen years. This buildout is compounded by social vulnerability and environmental degradation resulting from the historical extractivism that has shaped Appalachia. From the results of this research, we argue that gas extraction, production, and distribution are not only a physical construction but also a system of unfairness and marginalization that materializes in emotional, embodied harms to residents. This paper illuminates the emotional dimensions of energy extractivism, advancing a synthesis of energy and emotional geographies which improves our understanding of how energy systems interact with lived experiences, an essential but overlooked aspect of energy extraction and production.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47492,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Space and Society","volume":"54 ","pages":"Article 101065"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143095482","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Navigating geotrauma in transnational adoption: A visual journey into first mothers' intimate biographies","authors":"Surangika Jayarathne","doi":"10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101070","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101070","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper explores the intimate biographies of first mothers involved in transnational adoption in Sri Lanka. It specifically examines the experiences of first mothers who relinquished their children for adoption in the 1970s and 1980s, focusing on the often-overlooked act of relinquishment. By amplifying the personal narratives of these first mothers and applying the conceptual lens of geotrauma, the paper explores the trauma inherent in relinquishment, the impact of distance motherhood, and the spaces that facilitate healing. Drawing on insights from feminist geography and interdisciplinary perspectives, this paper sheds light on trauma's intertwined temporal and spatial dimensions in the context of transnational adoption in Sri Lanka. It highlights the importance of recognising survivors as experts in narrating and understanding trauma and the potential for resistance and healing through the mobilisation of place.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47492,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Space and Society","volume":"54 ","pages":"Article 101070"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143445034","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Good food and the politics of bad Feeling:Shameful diets and their inequitable opportunities and outcomes","authors":"Michael Carolan","doi":"10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101064","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101064","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Leveraging data from face-to-face interviews, self-narratives, and diaries that record household procurement habits, this paper examines shame in the context of discourses and practices that are said to support “eating well.” Building off feminist affect theory and the work of Sara Ahmed in particular, shame is conceptualized as having politics, which is to say, these intensities are presented as doing different things depending on the positionalities of the social bodies experiencing them. This study is important because it highlights shame as having both productive and destructive tendencies, depending on who is feeling it. It also highlights risks associated with dominant discourses and practices directed at “good” food. This analysis provides critical insight if we hope to build food systems that promote notions of health and well-being that are attuned to justice, equity, and inclusivity.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47492,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Space and Society","volume":"54 ","pages":"Article 101064"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143095480","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ariagor Manuel Almanza Avendaño , Anel Hortensia Gómez San Luis , Sergio Cáceres Becerra
{"title":"Emerging emotions in the face of the necropower of organized crime: Between domination and agency","authors":"Ariagor Manuel Almanza Avendaño , Anel Hortensia Gómez San Luis , Sergio Cáceres Becerra","doi":"10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101066","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101066","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The present study is based on a collaborative autoethnographic approach in a city in the state of Tamaulipas, located on the northern border of Mexico, to explore the emotions generated by the necropower exercised by organized crime to control and dominate territories and naturalize their violent practices. Fear is the predominant emotion, it influences the configuration of spaces as dangerous, it limits spatial practices and sociality, allowing the survival of the inhabitants, but also facilitating domination. Anger and sadness are emotions that open possibilities of agency, since they promote the recognition of vulnerability and exhaustion, the denunciation of crimes, political protest, and an empathetic response to victims. However, when there is insufficient protection from the State, threatened citizens prioritize individual management of protection and discomfort, given the risk of retaliation due to collective mobilization.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47492,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Space and Society","volume":"54 ","pages":"Article 101066"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143095481","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Coming to and being with affect: On the space between theory, method, and the researcher","authors":"Julia Alegre Mouslim , Lea Baro , Eline de Jong","doi":"10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101068","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101068","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article examines the intricate relationship between affect theory and qualitative research methodology. Departing from the authors' experiences as doctoral researchers encountering and engaging with affect, the article explores how different trajectories with affect contribute to shaping research processes and outcomes. Rooted in feminist scholarship, the paper adopts a pragmatic approach to affect, delving into practical applications of affect in qualitative research. Drawing on diverse methodological approaches, it showcases how affect can be empirically investigated. Through three case studies, discussing activist encounters, feelings of representation in institutional contexts, and an attentiveness to feelings and emotions in organisational ethnography, the paper illuminates affect's permeation of research design, data collection, and analysis in different ways. Ultimately, the article aims to demystify affect's use in research, advocating for its productive engagement and transformative capacity. By foregrounding affect as both a theoretical lens and a practical tool, the article offers insights into understanding lived experiences, social worlds, and power relations, fostering a relational form of knowledge production.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47492,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Space and Society","volume":"54 ","pages":"Article 101068"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143350428","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Gonzalo Lizarralde , Steffen Lajoie , Kevin Gould , Claudio Araneda , Ilian Cruz-Panesso , Julia Helena Diaz , Elsa Monsalve , Roberto Burdiles , Benjamin Herazo , Holmes Páez , Arturo Valladares , Lisa Bornstein , Andrés Olivera , Gonzalo Gonzalez , Oswaldo López , Adriana López
{"title":"Beyond fear: The role of emotions in disaster risk reduction in the face of climate change","authors":"Gonzalo Lizarralde , Steffen Lajoie , Kevin Gould , Claudio Araneda , Ilian Cruz-Panesso , Julia Helena Diaz , Elsa Monsalve , Roberto Burdiles , Benjamin Herazo , Holmes Páez , Arturo Valladares , Lisa Bornstein , Andrés Olivera , Gonzalo Gonzalez , Oswaldo López , Adriana López","doi":"10.1016/j.emospa.2024.101054","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emospa.2024.101054","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Most studies and policy in disaster risk reduction have focused on either what people lack (their vulnerability or their capacities to deal with risk (their resilience). Few studies and decision-making processes have focused on the role of emotions in informal urban settings. However, the results of a four-year study including interviews, three international workshops, and 24 community-led initiatives of risk reduction in Cuba, Colombia, and Chile, shows that emotions play a fundamental role in the design and planning of grassroots initiatives. Anxiety, pride, anger, uncertainty, and awe are crucial in risk-related agency. These emotions help building leadership and engagement and are decisive in establishing empathy, trust, and legitimacy—all which constitute the basis for change towards social and environmental justice. Phenomenology can help address connections between emotions, agency, and space. To succeed, risk response frameworks must recognize the interplay between emotions, behaviors, and politics.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47492,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Space and Society","volume":"54 ","pages":"Article 101054"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143095478","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Affective dynamics of belonging in a regenerated Dublin suburb","authors":"Alina Bezlaj","doi":"10.1016/j.emospa.2024.101056","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emospa.2024.101056","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The article is concerned with the affective dynamics of belonging in a working-class Dublin suburb called Ballymun. At the turn of the millennium, Ballymun underwent over a decade-long process of regeneration that thoroughly transformed it physically and socially. On the basis of findings from participatory observation and interviews conducted with residents, I argue that class and residential longevity engender qualitatively different affective bonds between people and place, create different senses of belonging, orient these affective bonds of belonging to a different place (spatiotemporality), and contribute to different practices of appropriating places. I explore belonging as experienced and performed by long-term (pre-regeneration) working-class residents of the neighbourhood and compare it to that of middle-class newcomers, who moved to the suburb during or after regeneration. Through the performance of belonging, I also explore the role of affectivity in communal boundary drawing, inclusions and exclusions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47492,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Space and Society","volume":"54 ","pages":"Article 101056"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143095479","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Stefanie Plage , Robert Perrier , Andrea Bubenik , Cameron Parsell , Rose-Marie Stambe
{"title":"Inside out – Views on and from home by people with experience of homelessness","authors":"Stefanie Plage , Robert Perrier , Andrea Bubenik , Cameron Parsell , Rose-Marie Stambe","doi":"10.1016/j.emospa.2024.101055","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emospa.2024.101055","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This visual essay explores what home means from the perspective of people who have experienced homelessness. Through their photography, we trace the dynamic interplay of inside and outside, presence and absence, materiality and immateriality in the multilayered meaning-making around home. Part of on an ethnographic project undertaken in 2022 in Southeast Queensland, 14 participants who had experienced homelessness were asked to take photographs and discuss them during a follow-up interview. The captioned photographs mediate our gaze on and from home, revealing the affordances of home as a material and immaterial construct. In the participants' visual storytelling we move across different forms of accommodation, making tangible the sense of housing instability and uncertainty they face in their daily lives. Based on the premise that the experience of being made home-<em>less</em> significantly and enduringly inflects one's relationship with home, their photography provides unique and valuable insights into what home means within the contemporary socio-historical context marked by escalating housing and cost of living crises. In doing so, we position this visual essay within housing activism and scholarship approaching home in terms of place and relational practice, rather than an asset, foregrounding how these understandings coalesce in home as a feeling.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47492,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Space and Society","volume":"54 ","pages":"Article 101055"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142702828","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}