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‘An outpouring of love’: A psychosocial analysis of the NHS ‘Big Tea’ fundraising appeal

IF 1.9 2区社会学

Emotion Space and Society Pub Date : 2025-04-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101086

Christian Möller

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Encountering graffiti and street art under light and air conditions: Exploring the atmospheric qualities of a place

IF 1.9 2区社会学

Emotion Space and Society Pub Date : 2025-03-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101085

Li Wen, Liu Peng

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The role of corporate public restrooms as therapeutic landscapes

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Emotion Space and Society Pub Date : 2025-03-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101079

Yujie Zhang

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Narrators of submersive affective atmospheres: Analysing oceanic representations through narratives of sound

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Emotion Space and Society Pub Date : 2025-03-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101067

Geraint Rhys Whittaker , Kimberley Peters , Ilse van Opzeeland

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Disrupted place attachments and emotional energy geography in fracked Appalachia

IF 1.9 2区社会学

Emotion Space and Society Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101065

Rachael Hood , Martina Angela Caretta , Christina Digiulio , Lora Snyder

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Navigating geotrauma in transnational adoption: A visual journey into first mothers' intimate biographies

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Emotion Space and Society Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101070

Surangika Jayarathne

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Good food and the politics of bad Feeling:Shameful diets and their inequitable opportunities and outcomes

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Emotion Space and Society Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101064

Michael Carolan

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Emerging emotions in the face of the necropower of organized crime: Between domination and agency

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Emotion Space and Society Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101066

Ariagor Manuel Almanza Avendaño , Anel Hortensia Gómez San Luis , Sergio Cáceres Becerra

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Coming to and being with affect: On the space between theory, method, and the researcher

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Emotion Space and Society Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101068

Julia Alegre Mouslim , Lea Baro , Eline de Jong

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Political economies of distress in chronic low back pain care

IF 1.9 2区社会学

Emotion Space and Society Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101069

Miriam Dillon , Rebecca Olson , Stefanie Plage , Maxi Miciak , Peter Window , Matthew Stewart , Simon Kilner , Natalie Barthel , Anja Christoffersen , Jenny Setchell

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