Billur Aslan Ozgul , Ozge Ozduzen , Bogdan Ianosev
{"title":"“Media is absolutely disgusting”: Emotions and affect towards political elites, information sources and conspiracy theories in anti-lockdown protests","authors":"Billur Aslan Ozgul , Ozge Ozduzen , Bogdan Ianosev","doi":"10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101097","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101097","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Using a unique dataset collected through ethnographic observations and interviews at six anti-lockdown protest sites, this article examines concrete emotions across different stages of the anti-lockdown protests in London, shedding light on the broader affective anti-lockdown protest atmosphere. Our study contributes to a nuanced understanding of protest movements in times of emergency by demonstrating how the distinct feelings of “distrust” and “disillusionment” in reaction to political elites, information and news sources can mobilise and consolidate a social movement during a crisis. We identify these long-run emotions towards official sources as crucial in fuelling short-run emotions of anger and anxiety at the pandemic's outset, mobilising and uniting protesters around alternative sources of information and conspiracy theories. Moreover, our findings show that despite their distrust towards mainstream media, protesters felt trust in alternative media and each other, assisting them to sustain positive affect during the protests. Even in the tense context of the pandemic, positive emotions such as joy were also fostered through the shared feeling of distrust towards political and media elites, common conspiracy theories and activists' togetherness in protest spaces, which created an evolving anti-lockdown atmosphere.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47492,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Space and Society","volume":"56 ","pages":"Article 101097"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144670535","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}
{"title":"Mobility time Flow: The autistic view on crip spacetime","authors":"Eva Kašparová","doi":"10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101110","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101110","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article addresses the need to bridge the geography of mental health with mobility studies by proposing the use of crip temporalities as a connecting framework. This approach draws on my lived experience as an individual with Asperger's syndrome, diagnosed in adulthood. The article aims to explore the mutual relationship between spatiotemporal contexts and my emotional experiences in everyday life. Using autoethnography, I reflectively analyzed diary entries written over the course of two years, seeking interconnections between emotionality, place, and time. The result is the use of new concept: Mobility Time Flow, which represents the process of experiencing my time while moving through space. I use three situations (walking through the city centre, travelling on a train and crossing the road via a pedestrian crossing) and one context (being in control of my time) to explain how Mobility Time Flow functions emotionally in my everyday life. I experience the first three situations very negatively, whereas I feel positive emotions in the context of controlling my own time.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47492,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Space and Society","volume":"56 ","pages":"Article 101110"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144655458","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}
Scott Laursen , Akoni Palacat-Nelsen , Chuck Leslie , Krista Johnson , Steven Manaʻoakamai Johnson , Aric Arakaki , Ryan Perroy , Bethany Morrison , Anna Eshelman , Rose Hart , D.J. Jackson , Aloha Kapono , Tanya Souza , Ricky Tabandera , Darren Lerner
{"title":"Empowering long-term, relational research pathways: innovation and adaptation at the speed of trust within more-than-human and human communities","authors":"Scott Laursen , Akoni Palacat-Nelsen , Chuck Leslie , Krista Johnson , Steven Manaʻoakamai Johnson , Aric Arakaki , Ryan Perroy , Bethany Morrison , Anna Eshelman , Rose Hart , D.J. Jackson , Aloha Kapono , Tanya Souza , Ricky Tabandera , Darren Lerner","doi":"10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101109","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101109","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Significant movements across the world indicate a shift from conventional information exchange within academia to empowering relational approaches in applied research, such as engaging with place-based knowledge systems. Much of this redirection has occurred through the engagement of Indigenous knowledge systems and multidisciplinary approaches, as well as collaborations with federal agencies and university extension networks, thereby elevating holistic knowledge forms that possess a strong capacity to influence human behavior. This case study highlights the value of moving beyond short-term, one-off research projects and outdated, dysfunctional data exchange paradigms within research, science education, and science communication. Instead, we highlight the capacities of long-term relational approaches within higher education and adaptation science that empower data usage on the ground and hold strong capacity to drive human behavior by engaging a diversity of knowledge forms (e.g., emotion). Specifically, we report on the interpersonal linkages, expanding networks, and output from a series of community-driven graduate research projects. Utilizing a narrative approach, we place a research team's affective relationships and demonstrated trust within a more-than-human metaphor of contemporary outrigger canoe paddling. Rather than theoretical advancement, this paper shares an example of what relational approaches look like in action within the Kapukapu community on Hawaiʻi Island.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47492,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Space and Society","volume":"56 ","pages":"Article 101109"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144597086","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}
{"title":"Enclosed emotions: The entanglement of hiders and hideouts in Amsterdam during World War II","authors":"Antonius C.G.M. Robben","doi":"10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101108","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101108","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>People engage with a place and its constituent things in terms of their perception of the material possibilities for action. These affordances also evoke emotions that express people's entanglement with the material environment, as is most apparent from the lives of human beings confined to constrictive places, such as prisons, nursing homes, and internment camps. Their lifeworld consists of limiting material surroundings and limited social relations. The exclusion from other meaningful places deprives them of impressions, experiences, actions, interactions, and emotions that would have enhanced their lives. This article examines the relation of place and emotion through an analysis of metaphors and metonyms in Anne Frank's diary in terms of conceptual metaphor theory. The diary was a private space in which she could express her emotions about hiding from Nazi persecution with seven other hiders in an annex to a canal house in Amsterdam. I will demonstrate that the metaphors and metonyms are causeways into her changing emotional state of being and the dynamic interaction with the secret annex due to its multiple affordances. I will conclude that people's confinement to constrictive places strips them of a wide array of experiences, social relations and emotions, which impoverishes them as sentient human beings.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47492,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Space and Society","volume":"56 ","pages":"Article 101108"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144579492","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}
{"title":"Intimate revolutions: the relationship between spatial form and personal change in the COVID-19 pandemic","authors":"Laura McGrath , Marlee Bower , Amarina Donohoe-Bales , Kylie Valentine , Peta Wolifson , Erin Fearn-Smith , Caitlin Buckle , Julia Macauley","doi":"10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101107","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101107","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The predominant spatial form of the COVID-19 pandemic constituted a mass confinement of people to domestic space and major restrictions to mobility and access to public space. This spatial change has personal implications; the material contexts in which people live are part of what shapes the possible range of experiences, relationships and selves to which a person has access. In this article we draw on mapping interviews conducted with a community sample of 46 Australians during 2021 and 2022, highlighting experiences of change: new ways of thinking, being or relating which participants developed in lockdown or intended to take up in the future. These changes were orientated towards similar concerns, wanting to sustain a greater focus on relationships, creativity and meaningful activity beyond lockdown. We note that these concerns reflect the symbolism and activities associated with domestic space (relationality, care, reproduction, the private self), indicating that these new futures and ways of being were crafted from the ingredients available in the spacetime of the pandemic. Implications for literatures on change emerging from crisis are discussed, arguing for greater attention to be paid to the spatial form of crisis situations.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47492,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Space and Society","volume":"56 ","pages":"Article 101107"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144481421","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}
{"title":"","authors":"Tung-Duong Hoang , Manh-Tung Ho","doi":"10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101106","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101106","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47492,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Space and Society","volume":"56 ","pages":"Article 101106"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144223640","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}
{"title":"","authors":"Hélder Silva Lopes","doi":"10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101105","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101105","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47492,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Space and Society","volume":"56 ","pages":"Article 101105"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144194570","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}
{"title":"Making sense of meaning, making meaning of sense: Re-centring care in research","authors":"Grace Bridgewater","doi":"10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101096","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101096","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Utilising narrative form and ethnographic method, this paper is a reflexive plea for an academic community which foregrounds care and relationality. Contributing to literature on the politics of knowledge and continuing the pre-existing metaphor of knowledge-as-vision, I argue for a more unified, binocular gaze which draws just as much on meaning as it does on sense. The evidence for this argument stems from phenomenological reflection on my experiences and positionality within research settings, in the field, and as both a mental health patient and practitioner. This paper is a methodological account which aims to embrace the messy complexities of research and draws on a wide range of literature, principally, feminist care ethics, relational ontologies, philosophies of science and knowledge production, and democratic therapeutic communities. Ultimately, I outline how a neoliberal and production-orientated academy encourages a dangerous level of emotional repression and disavowal of meaning, harming a multiplicity of actors.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47492,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Space and Society","volume":"56 ","pages":"Article 101096"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144147669","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}
{"title":"Corrigendum to “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road: Nostalgia and mobility perceptions of informal dementia carers” [Emotion, Space Soc. 53, (2024) 101028]","authors":"Thomas A. Lowe","doi":"10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101082","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101082","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47492,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Space and Society","volume":"55 ","pages":"Article 101082"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144170383","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}
Fran Trento, Noora Pyyry, Raine Aiava, Lauri Jäntti
{"title":"Creating safer spaces in higher education: failure and discomfort in spacing for difference","authors":"Fran Trento, Noora Pyyry, Raine Aiava, Lauri Jäntti","doi":"10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101095","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101095","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article critically engages with the concept of safer spaces within higher education institutions, which serve as prime examples of young people's institutional spaces. We build the argument by using John Horton and Peter Kraftl's (2006) idea of space as a verb and discuss how failure may be a catalyst for <em>spacing</em> processes. While acknowledging and valuing recent steps towards the creation of institutionalized safer spaces, we question the sufficiency of representational measures and worry about tokenization in safer space guidelines. We argue that safer spaces must be built with an atmosphere of openness, which often exceeds the limits of representational disclosures. We, therefore, probe failure and discomfort as affectual states that may have the potential to create fractures in taken-for-granted ways of thinking/being. Mobilizing Ben Anderson's (2009) concept of affective atmosphere, we emphasize the importance of <em>hesitation</em> and <em>experimentation</em> in opening space for <em>difference.</em> In particular, we focus on the neurodiversity spectrum, understood as a non-fixed continuum (Yergeau, 2018) by exploring situations of vulnerability and discomfort, often linked to failure, through two vignettes: an experience of a neurodivergent academic in the university cafeteria and a classroom experiment of ‘thinking under the table’ with young students.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47492,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Space and Society","volume":"55 ","pages":"Article 101095"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143948220","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}