{"title":"Queer affordances of care in suburban public libraries","authors":"Alison L. Bain","doi":"10.1016/j.emospa.2022.100923","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emospa.2022.100923","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Public libraries are more than the materiality of their built form and collections. Within ever-widening mandates to enhance social inclusion and citizen emotional and physical well-being through micro-political practices of care, this paper addresses the resourceful community resilience that insider activist and ally librarians may foster for LGBTQ + suburbanites. Turning its attention to Canadian suburban public libraries in three case study peripheral municipalities (Mississauga, Brampton, and Ajax) in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), this paper draws on participant observation and semi-structured interviews with librarians to identify affordances of care selectively available for sexual and gender minorities. Following its original usage in psychology of perception scholarship, affordances are understood as the perceived differential, functional, and relational possibilities of objects, places, and people for action. The range of affordances of care discussed in this paper include: LGBTQ + -positive space iconography; LGBTQ + Pride book displays, reading lists, and book marks; and LGBTQ + book clubs, writing workshops, and story times. These empirical examples are used to explore the performative progressive limitations of suburban public libraries.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47492,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Space and Society","volume":"45 ","pages":"Article 100923"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82190603","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":"Ramil Zamanov","doi":"10.1016/j.emospa.2022.100922","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emospa.2022.100922","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47492,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Space and Society","volume":"45 ","pages":"Article 100922"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"137042900","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":"Ocean deathscapes – The placement and contestation of vernacular memorials on the Australian coastline","authors":"Mardi Frost","doi":"10.1016/j.emospa.2022.100927","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emospa.2022.100927","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper explores unauthorised vernacular memorial markers in two case study locations on the Australian coastline. The first site is the rock headland at Burleigh Heads, situated on the Gold Coast, Queensland. The second is the rock breakwater at the ocean entrance of Evans River at Evans Head, on the North Coast of New South Wales. Plaques, painted text, and memorial objects have been placed upon rocks adjacent to the ocean. Exploration of the space through a walking ethnography brings forth questions and discussion about placement, representation and authorisation. This speculative inquiry engages current scholarship on vernacular memorials, particularly those in coastal regions. The themes of identity, inscription, contestation, and presence set a framework for this discussion.</p><p>Empirical data from each case study is gathered through textual analysis, photography, and reflective writing. Comments from personal interviews and online discussion groups creates a further understanding of why the memorial markers exist in these spaces, the impact on the mourners, and their ability to evoke a range of responses from community members.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47492,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Space and Society","volume":"45 ","pages":"Article 100927"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87615971","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":"Inhabiting Forest of Dean borderlands: Feral wild boar and dynamic ecologies of memory and place","authors":"Kieran O'Mahony","doi":"10.1016/j.emospa.2022.100902","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emospa.2022.100902","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Borderlands are dynamic, fluid spaces where multifarious actors and their relations come together in continual tension. The (re)appearance of (nonhuman) animals can lead to the emergence of novel multispecies borderlands, generated through a variety of affective, emotional and material registers with diverging spatial-temporalities. Situated in the Forest of Dean, England, this paper draws on ethnographic research to consider how the unanticipated (re)appearance of <em>feral</em> wild boar has (re-)configured everyday landscapes in myriad ways. In particular, the focus is on how distinct ecologies of memory and place- weaving through pasts and presents, the material and immaterial, individuals and collectives, humans and nonhumans- are created and shaped by embodied practices, encounters, distributed meanings and temporal change. Amidst uncertainty, the ‘Forest’ borderland is shown to be an indeterminate space, where memory simultaneously disrupts and enriches sensations of belonging and emplacement, and can help negotiate interspecies differences. The paper argues it is important to pay attention to the fluxing, fluid agency of animals and how their everyday human relations (dis)connect heterogenous ecologies of memory and place, especially at a time when multispecies landscapes are undergoing rapid, unexpected and un/intentional change.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47492,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Space and Society","volume":"45 ","pages":"Article 100902"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1755458622000342/pdfft?md5=1fffdbac1cb584ac242740ae99ee5542&pid=1-s2.0-S1755458622000342-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80998374","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":"Photovoice and pre-service geography teachers' visual sense of place","authors":"Chul-Ki Cho , Byung-Yeon Kim , Joseph P. Stoltman","doi":"10.1016/j.emospa.2022.100908","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emospa.2022.100908","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study researched the development of pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) of pre-service geography teachers (PGTs), adopting a place-based approach. The study planned and implemented a photovoice-based semester class on visualization, <em>happiness and sense of place</em><span>. Data were collected through photographs taken by PGTs, including their narratives<span> and reflections and analyzed through grounded theory. The geographical place where PGTs felt happiest was the first-place they lived as a child. Participants' affective feelings of place happiness appeared attached to objects that reflected mobility such as a cellular phone or a transportation means, such as bus.</span></span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":47492,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Space and Society","volume":"45 ","pages":"Article 100908"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77987338","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":"Investigating the potential of EDA data from biometric wearables to inform inclusive design of the built environment","authors":"Katharine S. Willis, Elizabeth Cross","doi":"10.1016/j.emospa.2022.100906","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emospa.2022.100906","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper presents a pilot of a method which measures quantitative biometric data to understand the emotional response of people to their physical environment. The aim of the audit method is to address the problem of lack of accessibility of public buildings for those with hidden disabilities. People with invisible disabilities such as Autistic Spectrum Disorders (ASD, Autism) sometimes feeling forced to withdraw from public spaces and communities and unfamiliar or busy environments such as art galleries can be particularly problematic (Amaze, 2018). As part of the Audit, data is collected using a wearable biometric device that is mapped against internal location. In this study the EDA (Electrodermal Activity) Audit was trialed with participants with ASD at a public art gallery in UK. The results reveal that participants with ASD experienced a greater increase in stress level compared to the neurotypical control participants. Areas where noticeable ‘peaks’ of stress were recorded usually had a restricted view or required human interaction. Comparison of GSR (Galvanic Skin Response) data with questionnaire information gathered before and after visiting the gallery also implies that the participants with ASD were less able to articulate their emotional response to spaces. We discuss the development of an EDA Audit method that could provide knowledge to help designers envision spaces that are more inclusive.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47492,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Space and Society","volume":"45 ","pages":"Article 100906"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S175545862200038X/pdfft?md5=1b45dfcf156a6dab0d55d8dc7974f6ab&pid=1-s2.0-S175545862200038X-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81551771","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}
Rupert Legg , Jason Prior , Jon Adams , Erica McIntyre
{"title":"A geography of contaminated sites, mental health and wellbeing: The body, home, environment and state at Australian PFAS sites","authors":"Rupert Legg , Jason Prior , Jon Adams , Erica McIntyre","doi":"10.1016/j.emospa.2022.100910","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emospa.2022.100910","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Health geographers have long been interested in the connection between place and mental health<span>, proposing that settings influence mental health and vice versa. Research on environmental contamination has tended to focus on the former part of this relationship, examining how the mental health and wellbeing<span> of residents living nearby are affected by the contamination. There has been little investigation of the latter component: how mental health and wellbeing may shape place. This article seeks to explore how the mental health and wellbeing of residents living on or near environmental contamination may be both affected by and reproduced in place. It considers this in a case study of per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) contamination in New South Wales, Australia, by drawing on interviews with residents. Focus is placed on examining how residents report psychological distress associated with the contamination and how this distress may permeate beyond the contaminated site to become enmeshed in other places at different scales, such as the body, home, local environment, and state. Ultimately, it is proposed that these places reproduce distress on their own and require just as much attention in addressing adverse psychological effects as the physical contamination itself.</span></span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":47492,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Space and Society","volume":"44 ","pages":"Article 100910"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80270155","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":"When global problems come home: Engagement with climate change within the intersecting affective spaces of parenting and activism","authors":"Lisa Howard","doi":"10.1016/j.emospa.2022.100894","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emospa.2022.100894","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Emotional engagement with climate change has been identified as an important research agenda. Recent studies have suggested parental worry for children and future generations are motives for climate activism, highlighting both personal and social justice concerns. A global parent-led climate justice movement specifically articulating this has emerged, yet currently remains under-researched. At the same time, social movement research has tended to overlook the social embeddedness of activism. To address these gaps in knowledge, this study used a qualitative mix of diary entries and interviews of UK-based mothers and fathers to investigate the overlapping emotional spaces of climate activism and parenting. It found that a parental lens on climate, informed by dystopian imaginings and processes of responsibilisation amplified fear and risk-related feelings, but were managed by channelling energy into a diverse array of collective action spaces. This led to positive emotions of hope and solidarity which were fostered and circulated within close personal relationships. In addition, the study found times and spaces which put a strain on affective engagement, and on partner relationships. The paper discusses the lack of moral anger in this sample of climate activists compared to previous research, and calls for further enquiry into the movement's development of intergenerational justice grievances.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47492,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Space and Society","volume":"44 ","pages":"Article 100894"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1755458622000263/pdfft?md5=fd6b2f28a444afb16427cf0893f9da84&pid=1-s2.0-S1755458622000263-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79011360","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":"The prefigurative politics of place-making: Analysis of a neighbourhood-based campaign for a social centre","authors":"Joëlle Dussault","doi":"10.1016/j.emospa.2022.100901","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emospa.2022.100901","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span>This article analyses the production of meaning embedded in places through prefigurative practices. Although the use of space by activist groups is widely studied in the sociology of social movements and </span>urban geography, this article extends the body of literature on place-making by analysing the prefigurative dimension between militant practices and living spaces. Drawing on walking interviews with Montreal's activists that campaigned for a social centre in Canada, this article argues that the strategies inform place-making of local grassroots mobilisations that aimed to develop urban alternatives, and that the meaning attributed to places depends on the individual and collective experience of activists engaging in prefigurative politics. In this sense, place-making derives from the lived collective experience therein and the individual's treatment of these spaces. The results show that the repetition of the action, as well as its emotional and symbolic intensity, are factors that favour the contribution of prefigurative practices to the place-making process.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47492,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Space and Society","volume":"44 ","pages":"Article 100901"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74201972","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":"Yi Fan Liu","doi":"10.1016/j.emospa.2022.100898","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emospa.2022.100898","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47492,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Space and Society","volume":"44 ","pages":"Article 100898"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"137179102","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}