{"title":"Between place and territory: Young people's emotional geographies of security and insecurity in Brussels' deprived areas","authors":"Mattias De Backer","doi":"10.1016/j.emospa.2022.100911","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emospa.2022.100911","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>While much of literature on place attachment describes it as an affective bond between a (young) person and place, with positive psychosocial consequences such as identification, rootedness and belonging, some authors are cautious and stress that an <em>enhanced</em><span> attachment to place, termed “territoriality”, may have negative consequences such as hostility towards outsiders and a sense of non-belonging elsewhere. In this paper, I ask how we should understand this difference and how the analysis of young people's emotional geographies of (in)security can bring light to this question. The paper finds that emotional geographies of (in)security are instrumental in understanding how a “positive” attachment to place may lead to a “negative” attachment to territory, how some young people emotionally </span><em>attach</em> to places and some are inclined to <em>claim</em> these places against outsiders (and also at the expense of other members of the community). This explicit appropriation of public spaces in the home neighbourhood is co-constituted by feeling secure inside and insecure outside the area. Territoriality may be a response to or an expression of ontological insecurity and of the inner unease that prompts them to strange avoidance and contorted strategies for manipulating spaces and setting boundaries designed to secure the self.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47492,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Space and Society","volume":"45 ","pages":"Article 100911"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81158828","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":"Affective atmospheres of weapons technologies: The case of battle drones, combat fighters and bodies in contemporary German geopolitics","authors":"Linda Ruppert","doi":"10.1016/j.emospa.2022.100909","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emospa.2022.100909","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Using the example of the defense and security sector at the Innovation and Leadership in Aerospace aviation fair in Berlin, this paper interrogates how the presentation of weapons technologies at German security and aviation fairs produces a/effects that influence the body and serve to legitimize political decisions. It examines to what extent the body becomes the site of geopolitical negotiation via affective atmospheres and how different scales interact within this process. First, I argue that affective connections between weapons technologies and spectators are essential for legitimizing warfare technologies. Second, I argue that affects of weapons technologies are subject to ambivalence and ambiguity, and that they are to be understood as entangled with other affects in the same body. Third, I argue that affects become effective across material and spatial scales. Drawing on geographic work on affective atmospheres, debates in intimate geopolitics and feminist science and technology studies, the paper contributes to critical geopolitics by unpacking the role of affective dimensions in naturalizing the development and acquisition of weapons technologies. In doing so, it also contributes to debates on the methodological operationalization of theories of affect and to emotional geographies of (in)security.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47492,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Space and Society","volume":"45 ","pages":"Article 100909"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74988339","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":"“I get a whiz in my body as I walk past it”: Visceral imaginaries in children's everyday mobilities","authors":"Tanja Joelsson","doi":"10.1016/j.emospa.2022.100912","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emospa.2022.100912","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This article focuses on how the visceral, sensual and the imagined shape children's everyday mobility experiences and their meaning making around their everyday mobility, thus contributing to the growing field of study on children's emotional geographies and to the field of visceral geographies. By introducing the concept of visceral imaginaries, the role of the imagined in children's spatial and mobile experiences is highlighted and developed. The children further emerge as aged bodies in these visceral processes, as the affective practices and visceral imaginaries position children as aged subjects. The findings are based on a qualitative research project on children's practices and experiences of their everyday mobilities, in which 59 children (7–13 years old) participated, predominantly from white urban middle-class families in a mid-sized municipality in Sweden.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47492,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Space and Society","volume":"45 ","pages":"Article 100912"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1755458622000445/pdfft?md5=60a6ac1297905290142697102d7e7b8d&pid=1-s2.0-S1755458622000445-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79237213","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":"In harmony or out of tune: Affective and emotional geographies of all-male choirs in London, UK","authors":"Emily Falconer","doi":"10.1016/j.emospa.2022.100925","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emospa.2022.100925","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This article examines the growing popularity of weekly amateur choral singing for adult men, with a specific focus in London, UK. This paper moves away from discourses of social health and wellbeing to bring together critical studies of masculinity with emotional geographies of sound, to better understand the links between choirs as an affective space and the complex, symbolic relationship between men and their voices. Where research has shown that non-competitive group activity is central to men's sense of connection and provides a space for men to express emotions, friendship and intimacy, there is great potential to analyse how the role of sound (volume, vibrations) and use of choral voice work (softening, blending, harmonies) directly facilitates this connection. This paper remains cautious of presenting group singing as an automatic panacea to disconnection, exploring the exclusions for those who are ‘out of tune’ and (musically and socially) unable to harmonise with others.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47492,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Space and Society","volume":"45 ","pages":"Article 100925"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1755458622000573/pdfft?md5=ff8eab894852bd079ca469e3f3020a59&pid=1-s2.0-S1755458622000573-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73412686","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":"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}