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Non-human grievabilities: affective witnessing in a Facebook pet loss support group 非人类的悲伤：Facebook宠物失去支持小组中的情感见证

IF 1.7 2区社会学

Emotion Space and Society Pub Date : 2026-05-01 Epub Date: 2026-04-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.emospa.2026.101176

Leanne Downing, Larissa Hjorth

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The crash of emotions: Socio-material landscapes of guilt in automobility 情感的崩溃：汽车带来的罪恶感的社会物质景观

IF 1.7 2区社会学

Emotion Space and Society Pub Date : 2026-05-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.emospa.2026.101178

Eva Kotašková , Katarína Azzamová , Tomáš Paul , Johannes Starkbaum , Karel Němeček , Kateřina Nedbálková

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The translation of emotion in letters on the communist era 论共产主义时代书信中的情感翻译

IF 1.7 2区社会学

Emotion Space and Society Pub Date : 2026-02-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101132

Diana Painca, Mona-Brigitte Arhire

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The emotional geographies of women interprovincial migrants 省际流动妇女的情感地理

IF 1.7 2区社会学

Emotion Space and Society Pub Date : 2026-02-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101145

Eric N. Awi

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The immediate home and the distant home: Domestic workers' home-making practices and relationship adjustments in daily life 近家与远家：家政工人的居家实践与日常生活中的关系调整

IF 1.7 2区社会学

Emotion Space and Society Pub Date : 2026-02-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101143

Yifan Jin

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Your everyday hero: media representations of civic safety engagements 你们的日常英雄：公民安全活动的媒体报道

IF 1.7 2区社会学

Emotion Space and Society Pub Date : 2026-02-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101146

Johanna Lauri , Josefin Olsson , Linda Sandberg , Jennie Brandén

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Hierarchies of desirability in home care: gender, ethnicity, and the labour of intimacy 家庭护理中可取性的等级：性别、种族和亲密劳动

IF 1.7 2区社会学

Emotion Space and Society Pub Date : 2026-02-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.emospa.2026.101153

Chiara Giordano

{"title":"Hierarchies of desirability in home care: gender, ethnicity, and the labour of intimacy","authors":"Chiara Giordano","doi":"10.1016/j.emospa.2026.101153","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emospa.2026.101153","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In Western Europe, the home-based care sector has become increasingly dependent on the labour of migrant women, reflecting broader dynamics of the globalisation of care. This transnational redistribution of reproductive labour produces a new international division of care, marked by intersecting hierarchies of gender, race, and national origin. Within this context, migrant care workers are differentially valued and categorised – often along implicit lines of desirability.</div><div>This article examines how such hierarchies are constructed and negotiated across three spaces of interaction: (i) families and older care recipients, who produce racialised and gendered typologies of ‘good’ and ‘bad’ workers through their everyday affective and moral judgements; (ii) care agencies and intermediaries, which mediate and sometimes reinforce these preferences; and (iii) migrant care workers themselves, who navigate, internalise, or resist these classifications in their daily practices.</div><div>Particular attention is paid to how proximity, emotional labour, and bodily presence become sites of symbolic and moral evaluation, producing a hierarchy of desirability grounded in both colonial legacies and the affective regimes of intimate labour. By analysing these dynamics in the context of elder care in Belgium, the article contributes to debates on affective governance, intimate bordering, and the emotional politics of migration and labour.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47492,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Space and Society","volume":"58 ","pages":"Article 101153"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2026-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147420590","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}

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A ghost ethnography amidst violence: The researcherʼs body as a sensing agent 暴力中的幽灵民族志：研究者的身体作为感应媒介

IF 1.7 2区社会学

Emotion Space and Society Pub Date : 2026-02-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.emospa.2026.101148

Natalia Volvach

{"title":"A ghost ethnography amidst violence: The researcherʼs body as a sensing agent","authors":"Natalia Volvach","doi":"10.1016/j.emospa.2026.101148","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emospa.2026.101148","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In this paper, following the Russian occupation of Crimea in March 2014, I present an analysis of the peninsulaʼs wounded semiotic landscapes and develop an approach of <em>ghost ethnography</em>. Building on my ethnographic fieldwork in the region back in 2017 and 2019—after Qırım-Crimeaʼs annexation but before the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine—I trace the signs of massive ideological transformation but also instances of erasure that followed as Russia deprived its public spaces of the Ukrainian present.</div><div>By introducing an ethnographic vignette from the field and discussing previous research on absence, place, and affect, I develop an approach to study <em>vibrant voids</em>, affectively charged and haunting traces of violence. Combined with photographs of the semiotic landscapes, residentsʼ insights, and the researcherʼs fieldnote observations, an ethnography of ghosts centres the researcherʼs body that not only records and notices, but also senses the ghosts that outlive vehement acts. In this way, approaching the researcherʼs body as a <em>sensing agent</em> that facilitates ways of knowing in settings where violence enacts absences, a ghost ethnography grasps the phenomena that seem missing, thus shedding light on knowledges that otherwise remain in the shadows.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47492,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Space and Society","volume":"58 ","pages":"Article 101148"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2026-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147420589","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}

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Shame in mathematics: A force in motion between learning and identity 数学中的羞耻：一种在学习和认同之间运动的力量

IF 1.7 2区社会学

Emotion Space and Society Pub Date : 2026-02-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101144

Saniye Nur Ergan

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Pudor et Silentium: Shame as a barrier to migrant resistance in the context of work exploitation in the caporalato system 普多尔与沉默：羞耻感在资本主义制度下作为移民抵抗的障碍

IF 1.7 2区社会学

Emotion Space and Society Pub Date : 2026-02-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101142

Fabio Indìo Massimo Poppi

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